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24 commentsFriday, October 17, 2008

Google Helps Find Missing Links

Like finding change in your couch

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By Basingstoke wedding photographer (WPN reader) - Fri, 02/06/2009 - 06:22

Another thank you

Just saw this Jason. Thanks for pointing this tool out. I never knew how to find out about bad links and now I do. I'd send you some karma if I could.

By Milwaukee Web Designer (WPN reader) - Sun, 01/11/2009 - 18:46

Quick, easy way to get extra link juice

Setting up some 301 redirects to the correct places will be one of the easiest ways you'll ever use to reclaim backlinks. This method is an absolute no-brainer to do for a site.

By Tenders (WPN reader) - Fri, 11/14/2008 - 01:28

As far as concerned to broken link , google help to find out how many you have link that are broken through its webmaster tool. you can check it "content analysis" . It is very good offer from google by which we keep on close eye on any kind of error happen in my website

By DeadFly SEO (WPN reader) - Wed, 11/12/2008 - 12:11

Google webmaster tools

Thanks for your well written and referenced article - I rely on blogs like this to keep me up to date.

By Steve (WPN reader) - Tue, 11/04/2008 - 10:55

Thanks

Information is usefull. I must try it right away THX

By E-Commerce Site Search (WPN reader) - Fri, 10/31/2008 - 06:10

Good Tip!

Thanks for the tip. After spending a lot of time garnering the links, it would be a pity to let them slip away unnoticed.

By Commercial Finance (WPN reader) - Tue, 10/28/2008 - 20:55

Google keeps adding more

It is so good to see Google adding more and more tools to help us find and resolve issues.

Thanks for publishing this information.

By giuseppe (WPN reader) - Sat, 10/25/2008 - 12:00

Google Master

Da Google solo strumenti performanti..! A great tool!

By Diamonds (WPN reader) - Tue, 10/21/2008 - 17:39

Nice little tool

Nice little tool, its good to know that they finally put something like this.

By العاب (WPN reader) - Sun, 10/19/2008 - 20:25

thank you

hello thank you

i think you can make 404 or 301 to your home page

http://gamezat.net

By Matt (WPN reader) - Sun, 10/19/2008 - 19:19

Alright!

Im glad you posted this, I've been looking for some good software for link checking for awhile now, I'm about to check out Matt Cutt's tutorial.

By govi (WPN reader) - Sun, 10/19/2008 - 19:19

I confuse how to used this

The tool find 2 broken links on my site, but I can't find that links on my site

How can I find that broken link?

By Gavin (WPN reader) - Sun, 10/19/2008 - 18:56

Thanks a lot

Thanks Jason.

Like other posts, I never thought about it before and don't even know google provides this service. Will look into it.

I usually use 301 to rediect some broken links. Not really sure it's good or bad.

By YOURTRUSTEDTRADESMEN (WPN reader) - Fri, 10/17/2008 - 13:53

Thanks for that

Thanks for that checked mine out ,never really thought about it before.

But will in the future

Cheers Mick uk

By Portable Storage (WPN reader) - Fri, 10/17/2008 - 11:23

Simply Amazing!

I read Matt Cutts post about the new 404 error page reporting and have to say that when I ran though my hefty client list I found atleast one instance of a link pointing to a 404 page. Free links is right. Now if only Yahoo can catch up with this type of reporting.

By Chris Peters (WPN reader) - Thu, 10/16/2008 - 16:19

Clarification on 301 redirect issue

I wasn't really suggesting that you do 301 redirects to your home page. There are times when 404 pages are appropriate.

I was suggesting that you identify the 404 errors in the new "Not Found" Google report and then redirect those bad URLs to the correct ones. You're right: a 404 would be appropriate if you weren't sure of the intent of the link.

In the report, I've seen a lot of instances of garbage like 'http://www.domain.com/<span class="' because the webmaster didn't close the <a> tag correctly or whatever. Sure, if we had infinite time to coordinate these changes with other webmasters, we'd fix it. But I'm working on a site with 100,000 inlinks. That idea doesn't scale too well with my team.

By Lewis (WPN reader) - Thu, 10/16/2008 - 22:36

Link Checking

It is interesting that google has this service. For over 5 years I have used Link Alarm to check the links on my pages.

By Guest (WPN reader) - Thu, 10/16/2008 - 13:56

Rewrite

Set up the headers in your 404 page to alert your by e-mail when somebody cannot find your page.

Then, if the link is an important one, either re-create the page, or put a mod_rewrite to point to another. relevant page

By Marc (WPN reader) - Thu, 10/16/2008 - 13:51

a custom 404 is a quick fix,

a custom 404 is a quick fix, but wont reap the full benefits of a relevant deep inbound link.

And i believe a custome 404 confuses the search engines when there is a page that needs a proper 404, is this still the case? any thoughts?

By Debbie Morgan (WPN reader) - Thu, 10/16/2008 - 13:50

Thanks!

Thanks, Jason, for bringing this to my attention. I usually only check my webmaster tools for my safety and security web site once a month or so but I will be sure to check this out right away!

By Chris Peters (WPN reader) - Thu, 10/16/2008 - 13:49

301 redirects, anyone?

I've solved the same problem by 301-redirecting the incorrect URL to a valid URL.

I don't understand why everyone's acting like 404 pages are the answer. Thanks for the misunderstanding, Google!

By Guest (WPN reader) - Thu, 10/16/2008 - 12:03

Jason

You are looking more and more unhealthy. I'm concerned about you. Get some help with your diet and exercise. You are way too young to be looking so unhealthy.

By Jason Lee Miller (WPN reader) - Thu, 10/16/2008 - 13:04

thanks for the heads up

Thanks for the concern. I think you'll have to take that up with my graphic designer, who chose a crappy picture of me for the newsletter today. I do look a little saggy under the eyes in that one. Feeling good (and tired since my daughter's birth two weeks ago). Cheers.

By CristianStan (WPN reader) - Thu, 10/16/2008 - 06:07