Hey John,

I presume you're more interested in external links that are pointing to URL's that are 302'd (temporary redirected) since they are basically missed opportunity along with those URL's that are broken.

Finding both are pretty easy to accomplish once you've run the SEOmoz crawl report.  Once its done it should show up here.  Download the report and open in excel.

When open, setup the following column filters based on section titles on row 6:

1. Filter to only show URL's that have external links pointing at them (column AO on my report)

2. Filter to only show 302 redirects (column S on my report)

3. Take note of resulting list which are those pages that have temp redirects AND which have external links pointing at them.

4. Now remove the 302 filter and apply filters for 4XX and 5XX "client errors" to find URL's that appear broken to the engines AND which have in-bound external links.

I hope that helps.

Cheers,

Stefan

Hey RealSelf,

With regard to your meta description problems, have you tried using a NOODP meta tag on affected pages.  I've used this as a successful tactic for years and looks like other have recently tested it's effectiveness..see this most or search for NOODP http://seogadget.co.uk/the-impact-of-noodp-on-titles-in-serps/ .

Hope that helps.

Hey John,

I presume you're more interested in external links that are pointing to URL's that are 302'd (temporary redirected) since they are basically missed opportunity along with those URL's that are broken.

Finding both are pretty easy to accomplish once you've run the SEOmoz crawl report.  Once its done it should show up here.  Download the report and open in excel.

When open, setup the following column filters based on section titles on row 6:

1. Filter to only show URL's that have external links pointing at them (column AO on my report)

2. Filter to only show 302 redirects (column S on my report)

3. Take note of resulting list which are those pages that have temp redirects AND which have external links pointing at them.

4. Now remove the 302 filter and apply filters for 4XX and 5XX "client errors" to find URL's that appear broken to the engines AND which have in-bound external links.

I hope that helps.

Cheers,

Stefan