How to evaluate a 404
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After my first site crawl im being told that there is a 404 error on my site..... It gives me the problem link url but would it not be useful to show me where its finding this 404 error?
How do i find it? it just tells me there is one and the location of the 404 i need to know the page that has the link on it?
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Hi Michael,
If you download the SEOmoz report in CSV format, there is a column that says where the link is coming from. Hope that helps!
Keri
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i have checked goodle webmaster tools and its not in the list it seems!!
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Google Webmaster Tools shows you where the 404 is being pointed from. When you click on the Not Found data there is a tab that says "Linked From". This will tell you all the URLs containing the link to a dead page.
Hope that helps!
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Google Webmaster Tools shows you where the 404 is being pointed from. When you click on the Not Found data there is a tab that says "Linked From". This will tell you all the URLs containing the link to a dead page.
Hope that helps!
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Google Webmaster Tools shows you where the 404 is being pointed from. When you click on the Not Found data there is a tab that says "Linked From". This will tell you all the URLs containing the link to a dead page.
Hope that helps!
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