Tool to check backlinks pointing to non-existing pages
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Hi,
Our website has many broken links/non-existing pages. But there might be many backlinks for such non-existing pages. We want to find-out all such backlinks pointing to our non-existing pages (404). All the tools I tried so far including Moz OSE have been listing only backlinks for current existing pages. So please guide me how to find the backlinks we are looking for.
Thanks,
Moz member
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Hi GR,
ahrefs.com toll helped in link reclamation or link building. However I have noticed that the tool is not able to find all the broken internal or external links. But I was able to find some broken links on another website. ahrefs support team responded to my query on this and agreed that tool might not be listing all links. They even said, no tool can provide all tools and its merely next to impossible. I wanna let you know my experience to keep you updated, so posting here.
Thanks,
Satish
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Thanks a lot. This is exactly what we are looking for.
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Hi there,
Ahrefs.com has that option you are looking for.
Best luck
GR----UPDATE---
The technique you're talking about is Broken linkbuinding. There are many sources about it.
Moz has a broken linkbuilding bible.
Personally, I've a paid account in ahrefs.com and it offers the broken links report. Do not kno if its available in the free version.
They (ahrefs) have published two blog posts about that:- Video: How To Find Broken Links And Broken Backlinks That Hurt Your SEO
- Broken Link Building: How to Build Quality Backlinks by Fixing the Web
And, just to add the obvious, here's an image that shows where is the broken links reports in ahrefs site explorer:
- http://puu.sh/rxpFI/b016aeeeed.PNG
- http://puu.sh/rxpGc/fa51a9bb93.PNGHope I've helped.
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