Hi all, we have a lot of 404s to subfolders. Eg www.website.com/blog-post-title/imagename/ www.website.com/blog-post-title/author/ We don't have these subfolders or blog posts anymore. How do i redirect them? These links (404s) don't seem to have any value or backlinks. Thanks, Stef

Hi I think you should redirect the pages to the home page via htaccess.

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404s on subfolder - how to redirect?

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Hi all,
we have a lot of 404s to subfolders. Eg
www.website.com/blog-post-title/imagename/
www.website.com/blog-post-title/author/

We don't have these subfolders or blog posts anymore.
How do i redirect them? These links (404s) don't seem to have any value or backlinks.

Thanks,
Stef
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I think you should redirect the pages to the home page via htaccess.
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