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From personal experience search engines don’t honor 404 or 410. I switched much of my personal site to returning 410 over a decade ago and Googlebot still retur
by epc 2y ago
From personal experience search engines don’t honor 404 or 410.
I switched much of my personal site to returning 410 over a decade ago and Googlebot still returns on a routine basis re-requesting a document that hasn’t been on the site since 2012.
- flir 2y agoWell... a thorough "meh" to Google. Thanks for the info though, one less thing for me to care about.
- epc 2y agoOut of paranoia I just checked and yeah, GoogleBot actual (and not the dozens of fakes) requested each 410'd URL at least once a month, some URLs get multiple requests per month. All have been marked 410 since 2014 or earlier.
- flir 2y agoGoogle has FoMO...
- marcosdumay 2y agoThe webmaster tools used to say Google will punish your rank if the crawler gets too many 404 or 410...