How to find page with the link that returns a 404 error indicated in my crawl diagnostics?

[Tetruss]

Hi

Newbie here - I am trying to understand what to do, step by step, after getting my initial reports back from seomoz. The first is regarding the 404 errors shown as high priority to fix,  in crawl diagnostics.

I reviewed the support info help on the crawl diagnostics page referring to 404 errors, but still did not understand exactly what I am supposed to do...same with the Q&A section when I searched how to fix 404 errors. I just could not understand exactly what anyone was talking about in relation to my 404 issues.

It seems I would want to find the page that had the bad link that sent a visitor to a page not found, and then correct the problem by removing the link, or correcting and re-uploading the page being linked to.

I saw some suggestions that seemed to indicate that seomoz itself will not let me find the page where the bad link is and that I would need to use some external program to do this. I would think that if seomoz found the bad page, it would also tell me what page the link(s) to the bad page exists on. A number of suggestions were to use a 301 redirect somehow as the solution, but was not clear when to do this versus, just removing the bad link, or repairing the page the link was pointing to.

I think therefore my question is how do I find the links that lead to 404 page not founds, and fix the problem.

Thanks

Galen

[Tetruss]

thanks sprynewmedia...will check it out

[sprynewmedia]

If you down load the crawl diagnostics CSV report, you can see one referrer for the problem.

I have better success using Google Webmaster Tools. You get the information "straight from the horse's mouth" as it were.

1. Log in to https://www.google.com/webmasters/
2. Go to Health > Crawl Errors
3. Click "Not Found"
4. For each listed, click the URL
5. In the pop up window, the third tab will list the pages that link in.