Every time you delete a page
from your site, you also delete one or more URLs. That old URL, when
visited, will usually return a ‘404 not found’ error, which isn’t the
best thing for your users or for Google. So what other options do you
have? You could either redirect the deleted page or
you could serve a 410 header. This may
sound quite daunting, so let’s explore your choices and how to go about
implementing them.
Here’s how to delete a page ▸