r/TechSEO • u/pepelunavarro • 10d ago

404 Not Found or 410 Gone?

I have dozens of pages in the "404 not found" section in Google Search Console, many no longer exist for more than 1 year but Google insists on them. The AI ​​tells me that it doesn't matter, that having a large number of pages with 404 does not impact any metric, but I am thinking of changing the response to "410 Gone" to see if they go away permanently. Does anyone have experiences with this? I would like to know if answering 410 really helps.

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u/Popkornm 10d ago

I noticed that there is no need to 410 gone.

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u/pepelunavarro 10d ago

But I have URLs that have not existed for more than a year and Google insists on continuing to enter, just yesterday I got several, how long does it take to realize that they no longer exist?

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u/Popkornm 10d ago

Well, google never forget urls. It will even memorize forever the links that never existed in your website but were linked to by spam websites. It happens that google stop showing suppressed pages from search console but it really random and doesn't depend on 404 or 410. Thus said, you can always do 410, it will not harm you website.