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    • ENSO
      ENSO last edited by

      SEOMOZ is great, it told me all the pages with 404 errors, however what would be more useful is if it told me where those links were located? Is this not available through this site, or am I just not seeing that information?

      If anyone knows of a how to, that is easy to moderate in difficulty to back track broken links I would appreciate it.

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      • john4math
        john4math last edited by

        If you have the check my links extension in Chrome, it makes it easy to find URLs that 404 on any page.  You can install it here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ojkcdipcgfaekbeaelaapakgnjflfglf.

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        • KeriMorgret
          KeriMorgret last edited by

          What you need to do is export the errors to CSV, then a column that tells you about these links and where they were coming from magically appears.

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          • ENSO
            ENSO @KeriMorgret last edited by

            Yes I see it now, the column you are talking about is all the way at the end and is titled referrer...it would be nice if this just showed up in the results for 404 errors.

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            • Sebes
              Sebes last edited by

              You can also use the really cool freeware tool "Xenus Link Sleuth" and crawl your own page. It has a lot more featrues to offer like page depth, header information etc etc. and best of all: it is free

              Just crawl your site and sort by status. Then rightclick on the 404ed page and see what pages link to that page.

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