Help Me/Question Urgent Help: Increase In “404” Pages On My Site

[Luise Palmer]

Recently my site got hаcked. They created lots of redirection to 3rd party website from my website. Google had let me know about this issue. So I cleaned up my site and also informed Google for review. Good News is that, Google has white-listed my site. But the problem I am facing now is with those links which they created are now redirecting to 404(not found) page generally as those spammy url doesn't exists into the site anymore.

But today I saw that there are 168 not found error from Webmaster tools> Crawl Errors> Not Found (Google as emailed me about this Increase in “404” pages on ...)

Can anyone please let me know what to do now or how to fix this?

I might not clear with my concern to some people so please ask me for any clarifications.

I've attached a screenshot which shows the spammy urls which they created and currently showing under Webmaster tools

 

[lishmalinyjames]

If you are using a CMS like WordPress, you can easily redirect your 404-pages to another URL like the homepage. A plugin I use for that is “Quick Redirects”. You can set to which URL the 404’s need to go. When you have a lot of 404’s, then I think it’s the best option.