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We had a site which received a manual action, as it allowed files to be uploaded which were then indexed. All were removed and now return 404 errors.
We know Google checks links which (used to) 404 every now and then, as they might have come back to life.
In this case, however, none of these 404 links will ever return, as they were spammy. We do NOT want Google to ever look at them again.
We have therefore forced all these 404 links to 301 redirect to a page with a 410 response. This means "permanently removed".
Now, if Googlebot decides to re-crawl these spammy 404 links, which 301 redirect to a 410, then it would record that the page should never be crawled again.
We do not want these pages to ever show in the crawl errors section of search console, and this was the best plan we could come up with given the available documentation.
Is this sound logic? We can't find any documentation to record this.
We had a site which received a manual action, as it allowed files to be uploaded which were then indexed. All were removed and now return 404 errors.
We know Google checks links which (used to) 404 every now and then, as they might have come back to life.
In this case, however, none of these 404 links will ever return, as they were spammy. We do NOT want Google to ever look at them again.
We have therefore forced all these 404 links to 301 redirect to a page with a 410 response. This means "permanently removed".
Now, if Googlebot decides to re-crawl these spammy 404 links, which 301 redirect to a 410, then it would record that the page should never be crawled again.
We do not want these pages to ever show in the crawl errors section of search console, and this was the best plan we could come up with given the available documentation.
Is this sound logic? We can't find any documentation to record this.
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