Strange Crawl Report

[Meier]

Hey Moz Squad,

So I have kind of  strange case. My website locksmithplusinc.com has been around for a couple years. I have had all sorts of pages and blogs that have maybe ranked for a certain location a longtime ago and got deleted so I could speed up the site and consolidate my efforts. I said that because I think that might be part of the problem.

When I was crawl reporting my site just three weeks ago on moz I had over 23 crawl report issues. Duplicate pages, missing meta tags the regular stuff. But now all of a sudden when I crawl report on MOZ it comes up with Zero issues. So I did another crawl On google analytic and this is what came up.

SO im very confused because none of these url's are even url's on my site. So maybe people are searching for this stuff and clicking on broken links that are still indexed and getting this 404 error?

What do you guys think?

Thank you guys so much for taking a shot at this one.

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[Giovatto]

These are "Not Found" errors, meaning they are pages that do not exist but are being linked to somewhere on your site or another site.

If the page that is not found is a relevant page that holds a prominent ranking position, then by all means you probably want to either fix the broken link that was found or 301 redirect this broken URL to the correct URL.

You can check what page is linking to this broken URL by clicking the URL in the error report and switching to the "Linked From" tab and then decide if it's something that needs to be fixed.

[Neon_Rain]

The team from Giovatto is correct, you can click on the url and see where it is being linked from.

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