How to Find Valid Not Found Page in Google Webmaster?

[christykunjumon]

Always we see crawl errors in Google webmaster, but we must ensure all links reported are valid or not. Below are few steps by which you can identify valid not found pages & also the method to fix these issues.

Step 1:

Find the Crawl error report under Health

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Step 2:

Analyze what is the status of the crawl error.

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Step 3:
Click on the error URL mentioned by webmaster, & Click on the 'Linked From' option.

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Step 4:
Webmaster will show from which page the URL is been linked from. We can open the page & check whether the URL is been linked or not, if linked we need to remove the URL or we need to do redirection(if linked from external sites).

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Step 5:

After fixing the URL, we can mark the URL & click the fix option.

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So in this way we can resolve the Not Found crawl errors in Google Webmaster, while analyzing if many errors found, then ensure is run & if any issues found do fix those. Thanks!

[Mike-R]

Good stuff - reminds me we need to go through the On-Page sheet and I'll file tickets regarding looking into sites with notable issue numbers.

I liked using GSiteCrawler for XML sitemap generation and finding 404s and other issues: http://gsitecrawler.com/