403, 301, 302, 404 errors & possible google penalty
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William Rock ran a Xenu site scan on
nlpca(dot)com
and mentioned the following:
...ran a test with Xenu site scan and it found a lot of broken links with 403, 301, 302, 404 Errors.
Other items found:
Broken page-local links (also named 'anchors', 'fragmentidentifiers'): http://www.nlpca.com/DCweb/Interesting_NLP_Sites.html#null anchor occurs multiple timeshttp://www.nlpca.com/DCweb/Interesting_NLP_Sites.html#US not found
Could somone give us an output of that list, and which ones of these errors do we need to clean up for SEO purposes?
Thank you.
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Awesome, thanks Istvan and Andrea!
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I agree - try Screaming Frog. I use it - and prefer it to Xenu - and it's free for up to 500 URLs or $99 for a license for unlimited. Even with a slower computer it can run in the background (leave it on overnight).
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Hi Bob,
There is another tool which is developed for Mac too. It is called Screaming frog.
With that you can also check the website health just as with Xenu.
I hope it will be helpful.
Istvan
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Hi Andrea,
I'm on a mac with a slow Windows Emulator. I was hoping someone could show me the URLs that need fixing seen by running the Xenu link test of
nlpca(dot)com
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I can't quite follow - output from what?
Are you asking someone else to run a Xenu/Screaming frog of this URL (http://www.nlpca.com/DCweb/Interesting_NLP_Sites.html#null anchor occurs multiple timeshttp://www.nlpca.com/DCweb/Interesting_NLP_Sites.html#U) and give you feedback on what to fix (beyond the obvious that any 400 and 500 level errors should be tackled first)?
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