In a recent video, Google\u2019s head of search spam \u201cMatt Cutt\u201d answers a question about how Google handles 404 and 410 error status code.<\/p>\n
Here is what he conveyed:<\/p>\n
What is 404 and 410?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n He initiated the answer by explaining what a 404 and 410 actually mean to Google. These are HTTP status codes sent by the websites, whenever a browser or a Google bot request for a page.<\/p>\n \nGoogle make use of these status codes to determine whether the page was not found or is permanently gone.<\/p>\n How Google treat when it encounters a 404 and 410 error status codes?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Matt Cutt says that Google handles 404 and 410 error pages in different manner.<\/p>\n During the crawling process if Google bot encounters a page and sees a 404 then they keep that page protected in their crawling system for 24 hours. This is done to avoid the removal of the page when the 404 error was unintentional.<\/p>\n \nWith a 410 status code Google believes that the page has gone permanently and will never return back. In such cases Google treats a page with 410 as an error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a recent video, Google\u2019s head of search spam \u201cMatt Cutt\u201d answers a question about how Google handles 404 and 410 error status code. Here is what he conveyed: What is 404 and 410? He initiated the answer by explaining what a 404 and 410 actually mean to Google. These are HTTP status codes sent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-building","category-search-engine-optimization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}