Find a 4xx or 5xx link referenced in an SEO Crawl Report

[farlandlee]

So I just got the Crawl Diagnostics report for a client site and it came back with a number of 4xx errors and even 1 5xx error.  So while I can find the URL that has the problem, I cannot find the pages that have the links pointing to these non-existent or problematic pages.  Normally I would just search the database for the site, but in this case I don't have access to it as the site is on a proprietary platform with no access other than to the CMS.  Is there anyway to get the linking URL from the report?  Thanks!

[ThompsonPaul]

If you download the full report as a CSV, Matthew, you'll find the last column (far right of the very large spreadsheet) is the Referrer - the page that is linking to the URL that has the problem.

That what you're looking for?

Paul

[farlandlee]

Thanks Paul.  That was exactly what I was looking for.  Strangely , the 4xx errors all show the referrer as being themselves...  meaning if the URL of the page is www.domain.com/xyz/, it shows the referrer as www.domain.com/xyz/.  Any thoughts on that by any chance?

Thanks again for your help!

[ThompsonPaul]

Can you PM me a couple of examples of the exact error URLs and the referrer URLs, Matthew? This sounds really unusual - as you pointed out.

Paul