410 Gone Status

A 410 Gone status is an HTTP response indicating that a requested resource is no longer available and the condition is expected to be permanent. It differs from 404 Not Found, which does not explicitly make that permanence claim. A home repair company might use a 410 for a retired page that has no suitable replacement, while redirecting an obsolete URL when a genuinely relevant replacement exists. Search engines can respond to both statuses by dropping unavailable URLs over time. A 410 does not guarantee a specific removal deadline. Choose the response based on what actually happened to the content.