: Google Webmaster finding url with redirects I have been scratching my head about this for months, we have about 100 Not found links with 404 response codes. The response code is correct as

@Lee4591628

I've seen this on several sites which have been around for a while. Links and URLs change over time, but Google doesn't tend to forget them. Sometimes the "Linked from" URL has been gone for years but Google still flags these up from time to time, probably just to make sure you don't miss anything.

As @abhinsit mentions, you can use a 410 header on anything that is absolutely gone for good. Google may still come back to check in future, but generally these are probably safe to ignore.

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@Sherry384

There are two types of redirects :

1) 301 : permanent redirect -> If you have added this, then google will know that you have permanently moved this page and will store this in its index.

2) 302 : temporary redirect -> This will not let crawler index the redirection permanently.

Firstly make sure that the redirection is 301 permanent redirect. Also google takes some time(may be a week or even a month) to reflect these redirection changes. These outdated links/old behavior on pages will continue to exist for sometime and then eventually will leave the index.

Also if some of your pages are permanently discontinued, then its better to throw HTTP code 410 to let crawler know that you have removed this page from site and hence crawler should also remove it from index. In case of 404 it continues to hit that page as it see it like a temporary issue on site.

Do check the sources from where the old pages are still linked. It might be the case that you have updated the sitemap, but some of the old pages which you have not removed continue to have old links and hence crawler reach them. If you are using webmaster tool it will show you all details in linked from tab in errors section.

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