Where is my 404?
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Hi all,
I just signed as a PRO in Seomoz(yes, I am noob) and in the crawl diagnostics it says I have got a couple of 404.
first one is a typo but I just can't find where it is on my website; any idea?
second, it is a page I deleted
third, it is a page with double subdomain
ie it works with sitename/country/services
404: sitename/country/country/services
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Doug is spot on - its just that easy. Those csv exports literally tell you everything you need to know.
Sameer is also recommending a good tool, Xenu, if you don't want to use your crawl report. However, Xenu can cause issues (rare) with sites with dynamic content, or it can just keep crawling forever with newer dynamic sites.
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You can get this from your SEOMoz crawl report! No need to run your site through another tool (although your might wish to out of preference)
From the Crawl Diagnostics, you can download your crawl report by exporting it as a CSV file. There's a little drop down and an "Export" button on the top right corner of the page.
Once you've downloaded and opened the CSV file you can filter on the 4XX (Client Error) column and then look all the way over to the right hand side to the "referrer" column which will show you the page that had the bad link.
If you've got a whole bunch of 404s to work through you can use the CSV file to mark them off as you go!
Hope this helps!
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Please follow these steps
1. Download Xenu Link Sleuth
2. Install & Run Xenu Link sleuth
3. Run Report & Copy all 404 pages on your site
4. Now fix broken links with technical resource.
5. If you dont want to put page which you have removed i.e. 404: sitename/country/country/services
redirect it to ideal candidate. i,e, to main category or similar page.
If you need further help for redirection, let me know
first one is typo - Please take help from programmer/designer to fix this error.
second error - It is about page, so please fix this with adding same page or using 301
Third one error - sitename/country/country/services fix it with 301 to appropriare page, or main category.
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You also see them in webmaster tools from Google
second, it is a page I deleted this needs a 301
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run your site on brokenlinkcheck.com
this will show you the exact URL where the 404 was found and the actual line of code in the source code where the broken link is.
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