Question about redirect 404 pages to homepage

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  • Resolved Hridoy Khan

    4 years, 3 months ago

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    Hello Rank Math Support Team,

    I have a simple question about redirect 404 pages to homepage using rank math redirections>Fallback Behavior !/?
    Recently i buy an expired domain and create a new website with this domain, so hope you understand that right now the old website contents is not available, that’s why i create redirection for all 404 pages to my homepage.
    so my question is: if i redirect all 404 pages to homepage using rank math redirections>Fallback Behavior then i will face any problem with google,bing,yahoo etc search enginges in future??
    Here is the screenshot of settings for redirection which i have done in my website.. can you please tell me that this setting is ok or not? : https://ibb.co/zrT1KwG

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  • Jaideep Asrani

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Hello,

    Thanks for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    It makes sense to redirect the incorrect URL to the correct URL to get the SEO benefit. While 404 errors don’t affect your website search engine rankings, they are a wasted opportunity to improve your website’s SEO. Although you should not blindly redirect every 404 page to your homepage.

    The best way to handle irrelevant 404s is to mark them as 410 using Rank Math.

    Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

    Hridoy Khan

    4 years, 3 months ago

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    You want to mean, i should not redirect 404 pages to homepage..? am i right?

    Jaideep Asrani

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Hello,

    Yes, instead of redirecting them to the homepage, you should mark them as 410 content deleted from WP Dashboard > Rank Math > General Settings > Redirections > Redirection Type. This will let the search engines know that the content no longer exists and the URLs will soon be removed from the search results.

    Hope this helps. Let us know if you need any further assistance.

    Hridoy Khan

    4 years, 3 months ago

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    Thank you so much for helping me 🙂

    Tammy

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    Glad that helped.

    Please feel free to reach out to us again in case you need any other assistance.

    We are here to help.

    Thank you.

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