404 Headers on Valid Pages for 1 week

Will Google Bring these pages back

[joshblinick]

A week and a half ago, we launched a redesign of our site. We are a directory listing with approximately 10,000 companies listed, each with their own page index in google. There was a mistake in the code, and the pages were returning a '404 Not Found' when they should have been returning 200. A lot of those pages have dissappeared from google.

We've fixed the problem, but my question is, will the pages come back as before, or is it like I'm starting from scratch?

Any help/thoughts would be greatly appreciated,

Josh

[trinorthlighting]

Can you make a google sitemap of these pages and submit it? If so google will start to crawl them.

[BillyS]

At least you didn't return a 410. Submit a sitemap if you want to try and expedite the process.

[lammert]

My experience is that the pages will come back fast and at their previous position in the SERPs as long as there are links pointing to them.

At least you didn't return a 410.

I used 410 some time ago on pages that no longer existed. Instead of removing them from the index, Google has indexed the default Apache response "410 Gone", even though the proper 410 was returned. So I am not sure if 410 is interpreted by Google as a permanent remove.