Need help google finding millions tens of thousands 404s

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[Roman-Delcarmen]

Hi James, as I know and as understand you are not a newbie. Based what I read, some basic advice like check your robot.txt, sitemap.xml, cannonital tags, will not be useful.

Im really interested, if you can share the url maybe I can run some audits and see some details that can help you, but with just a description I can not be useful (you can share on inbox if you prefer or if you can not share I will completly understand)

But looks very unusual

[Moreleads]

Hi James,

I have had some experiences like this in the past but with much smaller numbers of Google revisiting 404´s of old pages.  But they never stopped crawling live pages as well and after a while (sometimes over a year) they did stop revisiting them.

This is very strange indeed.  So is it the case that none of your live pages are in the index? If this is so then there is nothing to lose and would start over.  Also when you say deleting it from the index you mean using the temporarily remove url´s from search results through the GSC? Or do you know another way of actually removing it from the index?

If they are only removing it from the search results and not from the index it might actually not work because those 404´s would still remain there in the index.