Paginated pages are now 404s

  • Resolved lewismcc94

    (@lewismcc94)


    2 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    On a website I am working on, there used to be a lot of paginated pages due to the number of products they had. They have now reduced those numbers, meaning pages such as /page/3/, page/4/ etc are no longer there but are now being picked up as 404s.

    I don’t want to set a redirect in case the client adds more products that end up going onto these pages in the future.

    What would be the best practice here without redirects?

    Any help is appreciated.

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  • Use a plugin to handle the paginated pages: There are several WordPress plugins that can help you automatically redirect or handle paginated pages that no longer exist. For example, the “Safe Redirect Manager” plugin allows you to create custom rules for redirecting or ignoring paginated pages.

    @lewismcc94

    According to Google, if some URLs on your site are a 404 error, this fact alone does not hurt you or count against you in Google’s search results. 

    There are two ways to get rid of the 404 errors:

    1. If you can identify a good redirect target for the URL (one that has the same or very similar content), you can set up a 301 redirect.
    2. If you cannot find a good redirect target, you can change the status code of the URL to 410. This is a signal to Google that the content has been removed intentionally. Please note that 410 URLs will still show up as 404 errors in Google Search Console, but it is less likely that Google will continue recrawling them.

    Having said that, even if you don’t create a redirect for that 404 URL, Google will eventually find out that the URL isn’t available on your website and will stop showing a 404 error for it. If you want to learn more about 404 errors, please refer to this post:?https://yoast.com/404-error-pages-checking/

    This thread was marked resolved due to a lack of activity, but you’re always welcome to re-open the topic. Please read this post before opening a new request.

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