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Find a 4xx or 5xx link referenced in an SEO Crawl Report

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farlandlee last edited by

So I just got the Crawl Diagnostics report for a client site and it came back with a number of 4xx errors and even 1 5xx error. So while I can find the URL that has the problem, I cannot find the pages that have the links pointing to these non-existent or problematic pages. Normally I would just search the database for the site, but in this case I don't have access to it as the site is on a proprietary platform with no access other than to the CMS. Is there anyway to get the linking URL from the report? Thanks!
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ThompsonPaul @farlandlee last edited by

Can you PM me a couple of examples of the exact error URLs and the referrer URLs, Matthew? This sounds really unusual - as you pointed out.

Paul
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farlandlee @ThompsonPaul last edited by

Thanks Paul. That was exactly what I was looking for. Strangely , the 4xx errors all show the referrer as being themselves... meaning if the URL of the page is www.domain.com/xyz/, it shows the referrer as www.domain.com/xyz/. Any thoughts on that by any chance?

Thanks again for your help!
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ThompsonPaul last edited by

If you download the full report as a CSV, Matthew, you'll find the last column (far right of the very large spreadsheet) is the Referrer - the page that is linking to the URL that has the problem.

That what you're looking for?

Paul
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