Google Webmaster tools -Fixing over 20,000+ crawl errors

[FPK]

Hi,

I'm trying to gather all the 404 crawl errors on my website after a recent hacking that I've been trying to rectify and clean up. Webmaster tools states that I have over 20 000+ crawl errors. I can only download a sample of 1000 errors. Is there any way to get the full list instead of correcting 1000 errors, marking them as fixed and waiting for the next batch of 1000 errors to be listed in Webmaster tools?

The current method is quite timely and I want to take care of all errors in one shot instead of over a course of a month.

[LoganRay]

You can use Screaming Frog to pinpoint where your 404s are coming from. Here's a great write-up with a few different ways to use SF for this: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/broken-link-checker/

Another option is Google Analytics.

• First, navigate to your All Pages report, then set primary dimension to Page Title.
• Next, go to your site and trigger a 404, take note of the page title, it should be something like 'Page Not Found'.
• Whatever that page title is on your 404 page, enter that in the inline filtering and it'll narrow the reporting down to just 404 pages.
• Then drill down into that result and see a full list of URLs that are throwing a 404.
• Set the secondary dimension to Previous Page Path to see the page that linked to the broken page.

Hope that's helpful!