how to fix broken 404s

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  codrinpo · Member · Jan 31, 2016 at 10:18 pm

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  I did an idiotic thing at the beginning of January. I changed the theme of my blog and scheduled some old posts to be republished.
  That caused about 40-50 url to be broken…it’s the 404 error…and, because of this, my traffic dropped…from 200-300 views per day to 10-20.

  Is there a way to fix the links? And, of course, resubmit a sitemap through the Google Search Console?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Jan 31, 2016 at 10:20 pm

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  Ask Google to re-crawl your URLs https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6065812?hl=en

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  codrinpo · Member · Feb 1, 2016 at 9:06 am

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  I used Fetch to Google (for each link) this morning.

  The status of the “Fetch and render” requests gave me a “No found” status. Any ideas on how to fix this?

  Do I have to go through each of the links and fix/modify them? Or…