My Backlinks become 404s

[simobens]

if pages linking to my website went deleted (become 404 pages ) ... Do they affect my website in google ranking  ?

Thank you and sorry for my bad english

[Chris.Menke]

Simobens,

No, it will not hurt your ranking in search.

[GregB123]

If I understand your question correctly, then I think the answer is Yes.

Did you mean this? If pages that were linking to my website went were deleted (become 404 pages ) ... Do they affect my website in google ranking  ?

If yes, then the links on those pages that were pointing to your site (and helping you rank better) were also deleted. That means you now have less incoming links and that may decrease your rank.

If it was only a few links coming from weak sites, then the effect is probably too small to notice. But if many links were lost, or if they were coming from strong websites, then the effect could be large.

I hope this helps,

[Chris.Menke]

You know Gregory and Simobens, I stand corrected.  I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote that.  As Gregory says, good external links pointing to live pages on your site is good.  If either the page with the link or the page on your site that the link points to is deleted, it's not good.