How do 404 errors affect SEO?

[pharmasecure]

How do 404 errors affect SEO?

[dennis123]

Hi Friend,

Nothing will sink your website faster in search rankings than a 404 error, when a search engine can’t find the desired web page and leads to a dead end. It’s in your interest to fix these broken or missing pages and re-engage your users as soon as you can.

Whatever platform you use, be it Google Analytics or Oracle, take a look at the number of pageviews for your 404 page. Then add URL as a secondary dimension and fix the biggest offenders first. This way, you can boost UX and regain any inbound links from those pages.

[varunindia88]

Whenever a webpage goes to 404 and doesn't find by the crawlers then it is understand to be no of use. They removed that page from SERP and the traffic for your website and ranking goes. So we must fix the 404 page by redirecting it to the relevant page or homepage.

[makoo]

Yaa definetly it's affect for SEO.

404 error affected your website and seo because it's decrease traffic.

First you have check all website URL for 404 are genrate or not. sometimes you have no idea which URL give error.

[nikki shah]

Yaa definetly it's affect for SEO.

404 error affected your website and seo because it's decrease traffic.

First you have check all website URL for 404 are genrate or not. sometimes you have no idea which URL give error.

Will you also suggest how frequently we should perform this check?

[GeethaN]

If a page returns a 404 error code, it means it doesn't exist, so Google and other search engines will not index it. ... However, it's not so much the actual 404 pages that hurt SEO, but the links that contain URLs pointing to the 404s. You see, these links create a bad experience. They're called broken links.