Google Confirms Links To 404 Pages Are Not Counted

If you have a lot of links to your site, but some of those links are pointing to pages that no longer exist and serve a 404 not found status code – those links technically are not helping or hurting your site in Google Search. John Mueller of Google said on Twitter if “link goes nowhere, so we drop it.”

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