Find all old links from a site to 301

[lauratagdigital]

We worked on this site a while ago  - http://www.electric-heatingsupplies.co.uk/

Whilst we did a big 301 redirect exercise, I wanted to check that we "got" all of them.  Is there a historical way I can check all the old indexed links to make sure they correlate to the new links?

Thanks!!

[crackingmedia]

Hi Laura

You can do a search of Google's index for a site by doing the following:

site:electric-heatingsupplies.co.uk

but that won't tell you which URLs have redirections on them. However by clicking each link you will at least see if they are going to the correct page or a page not found (404) error.

Peter

[Chris.Menke]

Laura,

You can run your list of old links through screamingfrog and it will check the status of each one for you.

[CommT]

I was going to suggest Screaming Frog too. There's also Xenu if you want a free tool but IMHO it isn't nearly as good as screaming frog.

[customerparadigm.com]

Laura -

If you need to find a list of all of the older links, try to see if you can find a cached version of the older site's sitemap.  From there, you can extract all of the original links and run a check...

I did a quick search on the Way Back Machine (see screenshot) and found the June 27, 2013 version of the site.  It doesn't appear that the site has a sitemap, but you could probably use the HTML in the page to check and see if links are redirecting properly, too.

Thanks,
-- Jeff

electric-heating-supplies-wayback-machine-june-27-2013.jpg

[Thos003]

ahref.com and majesticseo.com both keep historical linking data. You could use these tools as well to determine if you have any inbound links that are not being redirected.