404 Crawl Diagnostics Report MOZ

[bjs2010]

Hi,

I keep getting 404's appear in the Crawl Diagnostic error warnings.

How do I find out which pages are linking to these 404 pages? How is MOZ finding them?

thanks

Ben

[SamWeber]

Hey Ben!

Thanks for the question. The best way to do this is to head over to your Crawl Diagnostics page and then exporting the csv. From there, you can sort the 404 column to group them and scroll over to the referrer URL column (all the way at the end). That'll give you the path Roger took to get to the 4XX/5XX error.

This will be made a bit easier in Analytics because we'll list the referrer URL in the UI for these situations, but for now, the csv is your best bet. Let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks!

Best,

Sam
Moz Helpster

[Kara.Wallace]

Hi Ben,

When I am fixing 404s, I like to use Screaming Frog (paid if over 500 pages) or Link Sleuth (free), because they do a real-time scan of your site and will find 404 pages and all internal links pointing to those pages.

And since it is real-time, you can do an immediate scan to make sure you fixed your problems (where the Moz scanner takes a week to rescan your site).

Hope this helps,

Mike

[MikeRoberts]

Try using Open Site Explorer. It should list all the links that Moz knows of that are pointing to your 404'd pages.