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    • InTouchMK
      InTouchMK last edited by

      We are having a problem trying to get rid of old links that have been removed from a website that no longer exists. See links below-There are several more that we need to deal with. We have tried putting them into Google Search Console, but they keep reappearing with Moz. Since our new website is hosted on Hubspot now and not on WordPress, which these links are referring to, we are trying to determine how to remove them from being indexed since they don't exist anymore?

      http://intouch-marketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/mas.png
      19 Redirect to 4xx

      http://intouch-marketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/TWITTER-HASHTAG.jpg
      19 Redirect to 4xx

      http://intouch-marketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Tweet-Activity-analytics-for-DCuevasIM-November-January.png
      19 Redirect to 4xx

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      • Dalessi
        Dalessi last edited by

        Hi, have you tried using permenent redirects to control the flow of traffic. Make sure and create a custom "page not found" 404 page. You can put a lot of great content on your custom 404 page that will help your website visitors.

        Best Regards

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        • Nigel_Carr
          Nigel_Carr last edited by

          Hi Bill

          They don't appear in Google so I don't see you have a problem. They are 404'ing which is fine so just leave it.

          I do agree with William though that your 404 doesn't have a menu but since no one is going to find these pages it's irrelevant in this case.

          Regards

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          • InTouchMK
            InTouchMK @Dalessi last edited by

            Thanks William. We figured we didn't need to create the 301's since we added them to Google search console. It's a good idea thought to update the 404 page.

            Thanks.

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            • InTouchMK
              InTouchMK @Nigel_Carr last edited by

              Thanks Nigel.

              I agree the 404 page needs some work, just in case people find there way there.

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              • dave.kudera
                dave.kudera last edited by

                Hey Bill, Dave here from the Help Team!

                If you are finding these in Site Crawl, you can also find the referral link, which is where we found these 404 links.  Using that referral link might help you track down where in the source code these links are being found if you wanted to remove them.  Hopefully that helps to clarify!

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