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We possibly have internal links on our site that point to 404 pages as well as links that point to old pages.
I need to tidy this up as efficiently as possible and would like some advice on the best way to go about this.
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Hi mike, we do have webmaster tools set up and I will take a look at Screaming Frog, as it looks like an efficient piece of software.
I should have probably been a bit clearer in my query though. Will Screaming Frog tell me which internal links are pointing to 404 pages?
The only way I can think of checking this at the moment is to go through every page on the site, checking each of the links to see if they go to the correct pages.
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Do you have Google Webmaster Tools/Search Console set up for you site? They'll let you know through that tool when Google notices a 404 on your site. Alternatively you could download a tool like Screaming Frog and run a crawl of your own site to see what 404s it finds.
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