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What counts as 404 page?

I've only been doing this a few months, so 404 page is new to me. Nothing changed on the site around the same time, as far as i can tell. Does it matter at a small scale?
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vinithra_karunanidhi Nov 03, 2026
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the page the server shows when a url doesn't exist. deleted post, typo in a link, old product. at small scale: a handful of 404s is normal and doesn't hurt you. the ones that matter are urls that had traffic or links pointing at them, redirect those to the closest live page. check search console, pages report, "not found" to see which ones google is actually hitting. and make the 404 page itself useful, a search box and a few links, so a human who lands there doesn't bounce.
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