Hello,
Yes, Google and any search engine or crawler will see the 410 status code and mark it as Gone Forever.
Don’t hesitate to let us know if you need help with anything else.
You did not reply to my last question. Perhaps it will answer this.
As far as I can tell, this is still not working and I figured out why. When you post a list of urls, they do get entered line by line as we had hoped, but they are set to an exact match. The problem is when you save it, it strips the root domain and then, of course, you can never have an exact match on what it left.
EXAMPLE: this is what is left zyqlcyv-263912ducml The root domain must be there. It would be best to set those to “contains” by default instead. I’m not about to go through thousands and set them to “contains.”
So far, the first 1000 I added to redirect to 410 are still registering as 404s in GSC.
Can you fix this problem please?
Hello,
Our plugin only works with relative URLs, so the root domain doesn’t need to be in the source URLs because the plugin will ever only redirect URLs from the domain of the WordPress installation.
As for the pages being detected a 404 errors, that is expected since the 410 status code is a variation of a 404 error and it indicates to search engines that those pages should be removed from indexing if they are already indexed. This will happen over time and it can take several weeks to be reflected on SERPs.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
