4XX Broken Links

[ClaytonKendall]

I am attempting to fix the issues SEOmoz found when crawling my site. I have a list of 4XX errors that I am attempting to fix. Basically I know one option is to redirect them to another page, but I would like to have the option to remove the links completely. The only problem is I can not find where the links are located. Does SEOmoz provide where on my site these broken links are? Or do they only provide the url that is linked to?

[Malarowski]

If you are getting this information through the SEOmoz crawl, clicking on the red 'Error' button should give you details which URLs exactly give 4XX errors. It will show you which  site returns the error, not where the link is though. If you forwarded the missing pages that would somewhat fix it. Another good idea to improve this would be to create a useful 404 error page that allows people to find what they need. Some advice on how to handle this: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/are-404-pages-always-bad-for-seo

[ClaytonKendall]

Alright, thanks for the insight! So there is no way in SEOmoz to determine which pages these links are located on?

[RyanKent]

Check your crawl report. Every link will be listed along with the error (404 in this case). After locating each link check the referrer field. That field shows the URL of the page for the broken link.

[ClaytonKendall]

Very helpful, thank you.