Find and Redirect 404 Errors with AI
Turn your dead-link log into 301 redirects that recover lost traffic and ranking value.
Prerequisites
A connected site. The recipe installs the free Redirection plugin for you, no other setup needed.
Help me find and fix the 404 errors on my site. If the free Redirection plugin is not already installed, install and set it up, then let it start logging 404s. When I come back, pull the 404 log sorted by the most-hit URLs and show me the top [20] as a table: the dead URL, how many hits it got, and your suggested live page to redirect it to. Do not create any redirects yet. Skip obvious bot junk and one-hit noise, and only suggest redirects for URLs that look like real pages people or Google are trying to reach. After I approve the list, create a 301 redirect for each pair I confirm, then re-fetch two or three of the old URLs and show me their response codes so I can see the redirects are live. Leave anything I did not approve alone so it keeps returning a normal 404.
Already connected to WPVibe?
Skip the copy-paste. Just ask your AI for the “Find and Redirect 404 Errors with AI” recipe, or describe the task, and WPVibe runs these steps on your own site.
Every deleted product, renamed post, and mistyped inbound link turns into a 404. Visitors hit a dead end and bounce, Google records the crawl error, and whatever ranking value the old URL had built up quietly drains away. The misses stack up in a log most people never open, and matching each dead URL to the right new home by hand is exactly the kind of chore that never reaches the top of the list.
Ask your AI assistant and WPVibe installs the free Redirection plugin, which logs every 404 your visitors and Googlebot run into. It then reads that log, surfaces the dead URLs that are actually getting traffic, and proposes a 301 redirect from each one to the closest live page. Nothing is created until you approve the pairings, and a 301 is the correct “moved permanently” signal that carries ranking value across to the new URL.
Paste the prompt, then give it a few days before acting so the log fills with real hits instead of one-off bot noise. Review each old-to-new pairing yourself, since only you know that “/summer-sale” should point at “/deals” and not the homepage. Redirect the URLs that carry real value and leave genuine junk alone, a clean 404 is the right answer for a random bot probe.
Outcome
The most-hit 404 URLs on your site are 301-redirected to live pages you approved, verified by their new response codes.