How to evaluate a 404

[alphatrad]

After my first site crawl im being told that there is a 404 error on my site..... It gives me the problem link url but would it not be useful to show me where its finding this 404 error?

How do i find it? it just tells me there is one and the location of the 404 i need to know the page that has the link on it?

[Bethbunny]

Google Webmaster Tools shows you where the 404 is being pointed from.  When you click on the Not Found data there is a tab that says "Linked From". This will tell you all the URLs containing the link to a dead page.

Hope that helps!

[Bethbunny]

Google Webmaster Tools shows you where the 404 is being pointed from.  When you click on the Not Found data there is a tab that says "Linked From". This will tell you all the URLs containing the link to a dead page.

Hope that helps!

[Bethbunny]

Google Webmaster Tools shows you where the 404 is being pointed from.  When you click on the Not Found data there is a tab that says "Linked From". This will tell you all the URLs containing the link to a dead page.

Hope that helps!

[alphatrad]

i have checked goodle webmaster tools and its not in the list it seems!!

[KeriMorgret]

Hi Michael,

If you download the SEOmoz report in CSV format, there is a column that says where the link is coming from. Hope that helps!

Keri