How do I deal with old URLs from previous site owner (now 404s)

If they are old 404s, the benefit of managing it now is going to be minimal as Google is likely to have relegated the pages as non-valuable. The main case I say for dealing with them is to correct live traffic going to them OR capture backlinks pointing to them. Either case, you’d want to setup a redirect from the old page to the new version. If there is no new version of the page, then it’s legitimate to let it stay as a 404.

Being another owner, if you can’t deduce the content of the page form the old URL handle, you could use https://archive.org/web/ to see the page’s contents to then redirect it to an accurate version.

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