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It depends on the pages. Search engines actually reward sites for 404ing previously crawled pages, if the pages had little value in the search index. Whether t
by snowwrestler 3y ago
It depends on the pages. Search engines actually reward sites for 404ing previously crawled pages, if the pages had little value in the search index.
Whether that is done on purpose, or is an unintended side effect of other ranking decisions, is up for debate.