Old links that need to be removed
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We are having a problem trying to get rid of old links that have been removed from a website that no longer exists. See links below-There are several more that we need to deal with. We have tried putting them into Google Search Console, but they keep reappearing with Moz. Since our new website is hosted on Hubspot now and not on WordPress, which these links are referring to, we are trying to determine how to remove them from being indexed since they don't exist anymore?
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Hey Bill, Dave here from the Help Team!
If you are finding these in Site Crawl, you can also find the referral link, which is where we found these 404 links. Using that referral link might help you track down where in the source code these links are being found if you wanted to remove them. Hopefully that helps to clarify!
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Thanks Nigel.
I agree the 404 page needs some work, just in case people find there way there.
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Thanks William. We figured we didn't need to create the 301's since we added them to Google search console. It's a good idea thought to update the 404 page.
Thanks.
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Hi Bill
They don't appear in Google so I don't see you have a problem. They are 404'ing which is fine so just leave it.
I do agree with William though that your 404 doesn't have a menu but since no one is going to find these pages it's irrelevant in this case.
Regards
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Hi, have you tried using permenent redirects to control the flow of traffic. Make sure and create a custom "page not found" 404 page. You can put a lot of great content on your custom 404 page that will help your website visitors.
Best Regards
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