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Search Console has found over 18k 404 errors in my site, should I redirect?

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pablo_carrara last edited by

most of them where old URLs pointed from a really old domain, that we have just shutten down. If the pages didn't receive any traffic, should we redirect? If I follow this https://moz.com/learn/seo/http-status-codes we shouldn't
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pablo_carrara @ThomasHarvey last edited by

Tnks a lot!!
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ThomasHarvey @pablo_carrara last edited by

Could try using: https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/
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pablo_carrara @OlegKorneitchouk last edited by

How can I find that out?
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OlegKorneitchouk last edited by

I would redirect any pages that have external authority (links from an external site) and leave the rest as 404.
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