How can i locate the links on my site that are causing 404 errors?
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In the 404 error report, there is no way to find what page on my site has the broken link.. how can i find them???
help.
Matt
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Very cool.
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Yes, I do. We relocated up to Washington from SF this summer.
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Good to see you here, we've met in person at Lauren's bday several years ago in SF. Do you work at SEOmoz fulltime now?
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Actually, if you download the report to a CSV you'll see the referring URLs that 404.
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I personally like to use Screaming Frog. It is very intuitive to use and works really well.
To find the broken links in Screaming Frog:
1. Run crawl
2. Select 'Response Codes' tab
3. Select Filter 'Client Error (4xx)'
4. To see which pages are linking to the 404 pages, go to the bottom and select 'In Links'
Hope that helps,
Adam.
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Matt, You might want to use a spider/crawling tool on your website and find the broken links.* Find broken links on your site with Xenu's Link Sleuth* Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Both of these tools will be able to crawl your website and find any 404's and the origin/linking pages. I hope this helps.
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Use Xenu or Screaming Frog to find the pages that have broken links on your website. Just download and run and the end, it'll show you where they are located.
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