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4) Use The ‘Bulk Export > Response Codes > Client Error (4XX) Inlinks’ Export It looks like the only broken links on our website are external links (sites we link out to), but obviously the SEO Spider will discover any internal broken links if you have any. You can also see the anchor text, alt text (if it’s an image which is hyperlinked) and whether the link is followed (true) or nofollow (false).

‘From’ is the source where the 404 broken link can be found, while ‘To’ is the broken link. Here’s a closer view of the lower window pane which details the ‘inlinks’ data – As you can see in this example, there is a broken link to the BrightonSEO website (), which is linked to from this page –. You can click on the above to view a larger image. To do this, simply click on a URL in the top window pane and then click on the ‘Inlinks’ tab at the bottom to populate the lower window pane. Obviously you’ll want to know the source of the broken links discovered (which URLs on the website link to these broken links), so they can be fixed. 3) View The Source Of The Broken Links By Clicking The ‘Inlinks’ Tab In the instance above, there are 4 client errors which is 0.58% of the links discovered in the crawl. This crawl overview pane updates while crawling, so you can see there number of client error 4XX links you have at a glance. They both show the same results, regardless of which way you navigate. There are two ways to do this, you can simply click on the ‘tab’ at the top and use the drop down filter –Īlternatively you can use the right-hand window crawl overview pane and just click directly on ‘Client Error (4xx)’ tree view under the ‘Response Codes’ folder.

You can wait until the crawl finishes and reaches 100%, or you can just view 404 broken links while crawling by navigating to the ‘Response Codes’ tab and using the filter for ‘Client Error 4XX’. 2) Click The ‘Response Codes’ tab & ‘Client Error (4XX)’ Filter To View Broken Links Open up the SEO Spider, type or copy in the website you wish to crawl in the ‘enter url to spider’ box and hit ‘Start’. The next steps to find broken links are – 1) Crawl The Website You can crawl more than 500 URLs with the paid version. First of all, you’ll need to download the SEO Spider which is free in lite form, for crawling up to 500 URLs.

You can use the Screaming Frog SEO Spider for free (and paid) to check for broken links (the http response ‘404 not found error’) on your website.īelow is a very quick and easy tutorial on how to use the tool as a broken link checker.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider 19.0 download the new for apple