Google On What To Do About 404 Errors In Search Console

Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit about what to do about the thousands of 404 errors reported in Google Search Console. John’s answer clarified how to approach the Search Console Page Indexing report with regard to the 404 errors listed there. What they do is create a redirect to the homepage so that there are no longer any 404 errors. The takeaway is that it’s correct for a webpage that doesn’t exist to return a 404 error response. Unless there is a mistake on the website that is responsible for the 404 server response.