We are fixing broken links - can anyone tell me how to find and correct these errors

[CostumeD]

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[MattAntonino]

Hi Li,

It looks like some of your pages changed in a site move.

The easiest way to do this is to use Xenu or Screaming Frog (programs) to find them and then fix them.

For instance, I found this one: http://www.fashionably-yours.com.au/sizing.php

This one is broken on your site a number of times.  These 3 pages (at least) link to it:

http://www.fashionably-yours.com.au/leigh_dress_lilac/
http://www.fashionably-yours.com.au/bjc-blue-tier-chiffon-mother-of-bride-dress/
http://www.fashionably-yours.com.au/black-mariska-knee-length-chiffon-gown-xs-xl/

The theme seems to work fine, it's the internal linking that seems to be the biggest issue.

[taryn_s]

Hi Li,

Matt gave you some good answers there but I thought I'd expand on them a little.

There are a couple of well-known programmes you can use to crawl your website in a similar way to Google. One is called Screaming Frog and the other is Xenu Link Sleuth. The free version of Screaming Frog only crawls up to 500 pages of a website (your site has many more pages than this) but the pro version crawls an unlimited amount. It costs £99/year and is definitely worth it if you'll be working on your SEO. Use one of these programmes to crawl your website and find the broken links. You can also pull this data from your Moz report but this may not be as up-to-date. All of these tools will show you where your broken pages are and which pages on your website are linking to them. You can them use your CMS (or HTML code) to go to the linking page and update the link to point to a working page or remove it completely if the content has disappeared. Once fixed, you will have no broken internal links on your website.

The other factor to consider is external websites which point to broken pages on your website. As you don't have control over these links, you will need to redirect the broken pages to other, working pages on your website. There are a couple of good ways to find external websites linking to broken pages on your site. The first is in Google Webmaster Tools (go to Crawl > Crawl Errors) and you'll see a list of broken pages on your site. The second is using Moz's Open Site Explorer (go to Top Pages and change the HTTP Page Status to 4xx). Here is the link to the report of your site (there are 22 pages). Again, this will show all pages on your site which are broken. You can export both of these as CSVs so you can work with them in Excel.

How you create the redirects depends on your site. If you use a CMS, there may be an easy way to implement them. If not, you may need a developer to help you out.

Let us know how you get on.

[CostumeD]

Hi

Thanks for the reply.

I have down loaded Xenu and using check URL and our website URL come up with a report. I am not sure how to interperate it though. It begins - as below - the links listed are not broken

I must be using it incorrectly, could someone advise me on how to use the program ?

Thanks

Broken links, ordered by link:

empty URL
error code: 404 (not found), linked from page(s):
	[http://www.costumedirect.com.au/captain-america-deluxe-muscle-adult-costume/](http://www.costumedirect.com.au/captain-america-deluxe-muscle-adult-costume/)
	[http://www.costumedirect.com.au/thor-classic-muscle-avengers-adult-costume/](http://www.costumedirect.com.au/thor-classic-muscle-avengers-adult-costume/) 

[CostumeD]

Hi

I am trying to use Xenu and can not get this sort of response. Which options should I be using to produce this sort of information ?

Regards

[CostumeD]

Hi

Thanks for your help

2 more questions

1.You said "go to the linking page and update the link to point to a working page or remove it completely if the content has disappeared."

I can remove links to pages or information within our site. What we are having trouble with is removing any links to products that no longer exist - these products have been deleted from our Data base some time ago - is there a way to remove them totally from Crawl errors other than creating a redirect. Most of these pages are being pointed to by pages that are not actually products or page - they are pages created by Bigcommerce -the platform we use - to allow for currency and mobile pages.

We have hundreds of these errors and are having trouble working out the best way to deal with them.

[ApWeb]

Hi Guys,

We have structured data errors similar to this for the website named Sculpt Australia. It says unparsable structured  data errors in search console. It's a shopify store. Not sure if these errors affect the rankings. Please help if possible.