Opportunity library
Broken internal link
A link on your site leads to a page that does not exist, which is a dead end for visitors and crawlers.
- Applies to
- One page at a time
- How much work
- A quick fix
- Ends in
- Fix it and see it live
How Lastmod finds it
The crawl follows every internal link and records the ones that return an error.
What you do
Update the link to the right address or remove it, and redirect the old address if it should keep working.
How the work is followed up
Lastmod looks for your change on the live page and closes the opportunity when the problem is gone. Clicks are followed as context, not as the proof.
More about this problem
Other types in this group
- Missing title →
- Missing meta description →
- Duplicate title →
- Missing canonical →
- Canonical points to another site →
- Title or description length →
- Internal links via a redirect →
- Hreflang problems →
- Very similar pages →
- Incomplete structured data →
- Indexable account pages →
- Unusual URL structure →
- Few internal links →
- Pages not showing in search →
- Google picked another canonical →
- Content seems to need JavaScript →
- Sitemap needs cleaning up →
- Homepage does not say who is behind the site →
- Missing page with search traffic →
See which of these apply to your site
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