Google console showing pages of products I deleted as broken links

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Hello

I did a revamp of my products and ended up deleting lots of products over the last month. A few days ago I did a website audit on google console, it cam up with a lot of broken pages, when I started checking them I noticed all of the one I checked belonged to a deleted product. How do I fix this?

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Hi,

Click on “Validate Fix” at GSC and resubmit product sitemap

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You have to redirect your broken links to your collection pages or other relevent pages

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You’ll want to set up redirects for all the pages that you’ve deleted.

Here’s a guide to finding all your broken URLs with a combination of Search Console and ScreamingFrog: https://www.ilanadavis.com/blogs/articles/check-broken-links-without-using-another-shopify-app
Here’s a guide on how to fix broken URLs in bulk: https://www.ilanadavis.com/blogs/articles/fixing-your-broken-shopify-urls-in-bulk

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Thank you. I don’t want to redirect to a page that doesn’t exist anymore, can I just remove them?

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Thanks, is there a way to remove them and not redirect them?

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I need to do take an action before I can click on validate fix

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Eventually, Google will stop looking at those URLs and eventually drop off, but there is no way to know how long that will take. The only way to remove the broken links from Search Console is to set up redirects. If you want to avoid setting up redirects, you can ignore the issues, but this will negatively impact your SEO and customers experience.

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I went the redirect way thank you.