The answer is “YES”. It will affect your website ranking and due to it, your website authority will also suffer. As you know well, Google gives priority to those websites that have better content and well optimization of all the contents.
If for any websites google receives too many Error 404, then Google thinks that the website is not good enough and it penalizes that website by downing its google’s ranking. So if you are maintaining a blog, then you should always have to analyze your website’s broken links or dead links and fix it as soon as possible.
If you delete any of your blog from your website then make sure you have requested google to remove that particular URL from the google search console. Otherwise, it will show that particular link in google’s search result and when anyone clicks on that particular link then it will trigger ‘ Content Not Found 404 Error‘.
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