I would like to know how to apply a 410 to pages that I have permanently deleted off my website.
410 codes tell google that the pages it is crawling/trying to index no longer exist and, as a result, google drops them from the crawl, making your page more efficient.
I am not asking about redirects. I am asking about removing URLs from Google's search permanently.
I've read countless articles talking about why this is beneficial, but I can't find a tutorial on how to do it.
Can someone please help?