Locating broken links on site?
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Hey guys,
I'm using Screaming Frog to help locate some broken links on a client's site and I've managed to pick up two. However, I can't seem to find whereabouts they're located on the site in order to fix them!
Is there a way I can do this?
Cheers!
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I know this is already answered, but SEER did a great guide to Screaming Frog Guide to Doing Almost Anything: 55+ Ways of Looking at a Tool.
There are some really cool tips in there.
Mike
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I like using the plugins myself, the only challenge is that if you have a large site that you need to run through all the pages, you really need to use a tool that will crawl it all for you vs you having to visit page by page.
Cheers
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xenu link sleuth works good as well.
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I use a chrome extension called check my links, very effective!
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Ahh, good man. That's spot on.
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Select the URL address where you have the 404 so that it is highlighted in the main section.
At the bottom of the screen, there is a tab "In Links" Click on that.
It will show you a list of "From" pages on the site that link to the 404 address above. You can right click that from URL to either copy the From or open the From in your browser and see the page that you need to correct.
You can also go into the main menu under Advanced Export and export the Client Error (4xx) and get everything in a csv file that has the same details.
FYI - I am using version 2.20 (just updated) but previous versions would work similarly.
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