Helping finding a link
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Hi
So Ive done a crawl of the site using screaming frog.
There are a few old category and sub category pages which don't exist any more but somehow the crawler is finding them. An example is below:
http://www.ebuyer.com/store/Home-Appliances/cat/Health-&-Beauty/subcat/Male-Grooming
Just wondering if anybody had any ideas about how I could go and find these urls and remove them off the site.
Any ideas would be really appreciated.
Thanks
Andy
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Thanks for both your answers. i actually didnt spot it in the category text which is what got me digging deeper.
Again thanks
Andy
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Hi!
There is one link to this category from http://www.ebuyer.com/store/Home-Appliances/cat/Health-&-Beauty in the category text on the top. The text is not styled in anyway, but the link text is "hair grooming kits for men".
Chris' suggestion for Screaming frog is one way about it. OpenSiteExplorer also does the trick, looking for inbound links, and perhaps narrowing to internal links.
Hope this helps
Anders
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Hi Andy,
The bottom tab of screaming frog there is one called "in links" From there it will tell you where the links are coming from to get to that page. Its then just a matter of going to that page and looking for them (ctrl+f)
Hope that helps.
edit
okay Just to go in a bit deeper you've obviously got that as a 302 redirect (I'd swap that to a 301) so thats a bit down to the CMS but you can also find out any links pointing to the urls to work out any juice etc. e.g. that one has links from dig.do. Obviously crawling just that url doesn't tell you the in links but crawling the whole site should reveal internal links that are pointing there if any.
Let me know if it all works out.
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