Google search console: 404 and soft 404 without any back-links. Redirect needed?
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Hi Moz community,
We can see the 404 and soft 404 errors in Google web masters. Usually these are non-existing pages which are found somewhere on internet by Google. I can see some of these reported URLs don't have any back-links (checked on ahrefs tool). Do we need to redirect each and every link reported here or ignore or marked to be fixed?
Thanks
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Hey vtmoz–I'd recommend you resolve the issue _at the source. _Meaning, fix the broken links at their link location (where they're being linked to). You could 301 these 404s to another location on your site, but then you'll just have a bunch of expired, internal links that 301. If these 404 links don't have backlinks, as you say, then there's no page authority to keep.
You can find this in GSC (webmaster tools). LMK if you have any questions.
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Hi vtmoz,
I recommend you to redirect all that 404 errors. In my opinion a clean web without errors performs better on Google.
If they're too much, you can install a plugin like:
https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/all-404-redirect-to-homepage/
https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/404-redirection/
https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/redirect-to-404/
Hope that helps.
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