6 SEO Methods to deal with missing pages on a website

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SEO Methods

• TO DEAL WITH MISSING PAGES ON A WEBSITE

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• On a website, sometimes pages can disappear
  because a product becomes out of stock or
  obsolete, content has been deleted, migration is
  in progress, etc. The URL to which a page once
  displayed suddenly becomes invalid.

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What are the best solutions for managing this
situation?

• Here are some possibilities to fix missing pages

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Code 404 (URL not found).

• The page is gone, the URL returns a 404 code when
  requested, Google will process it after a certain
  amount of time and the page will disappear from
  the engine. Having a lot of 404 on his site does
  not generate a penalty from Google, but its
  robots waste time on URLs that are no longer
  valid.

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Code 410 (Gone).

• This situation is similar compared to the
  previous case, but the code 410 is more logical
  than the 404, since here we have a content that
  was available on an address, but which has
  disappeared (so Gone). While in the case of a
  404, there was never anything on the URL in
  question.

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Redirect 302 (temporary) to another page.

• This solution may be suitable for a page that is
  unavailable for a few hours, at worst 2 or 3
  days. For example, In the case of a product being
  temporarily out of stock. Prefer otherwise a 301

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Redirection 301 (permanent) to a close page.

• It is possible to redirect the missing URL to
  related content, offering a product, an article
  or more closely related general content. An
  explanation message can be added.

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Redirect 301 (permanent) to the top page in the
tree view.

• This solution may be suitable for a page that is
  unavailable for a few hours, at worst 2 or 3
  days. For example, In the case of a product being
  temporarily out of stock. Prefer otherwise a 301

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Redirect 301 (permanent) to an explanation page.

• Here is a standard page that explains that the
  page was not found on the site, but offers links
  (dynamically created) to nearby content. There is
  a big chance that Google will treat this type of
  page as a Soft 404 (a 404 that returns a code of
  200 and is treated as a 404).

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