Hi, I am using G's webmaster tools on several sites, and find it helpful. Problem is in the "Web Crawl" section, it shows one of my sites with links to 2 unfound pages. Which is nice to know, but for the life of me, I can't find where these links are in the site. I have looked at every link in the site and nowhere does it link to the unfound page. I have also tried link:http://www.missingpage in G and Y How do I find out where this broken link is? I wish G would include more details of where the broken link is located, instead of just saying you have a broken link. Thanks for any advice
I agree, Xenu is the way to go. This situation was also asked about at PubCon and Matt Cutts mentioned that they are quite aware that this would be helpful, and he "implied" we might be able to expect it in the future, although he didn't exactly say so.
I had a quick read over at Xenu's Link Sleuth But it doesn't say if it tells you where the broken link is. I used http://www.backlinkwatch.com/index.php it found the broken links, but doesn't tell me what page they are on, with thousands of links in the site, its like searching for a needle in a haystack.
If you have a small site you can use this tool to find broken links. http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp Scroll down and click on the G Sitemap Builder image to load the program. Enter your URL in the options page and let the crawler run. Problems are displayed in the errors tab. Click on the + symbol on the error to find out what page it appears on. If the error appears on multiple pages it will show the URLs.
smokey99, I feel your pain. WMT identifies incoming links that are broken - usually from other sites. (I am assuming that we all do regular link checks on our sites, right?) So, none of the solutions suggested above really helps: Xenu does not identify problems with incoming links, "link:http://www.missingpage.com" only works if G or Y have already indexed the page with the broken link. Same problem with www.backlinkwatch.com ... it only seems to list indexed links. Of course, Google Web Crawler knows where the problematic link is ... So maybe we do need to give Matt Cutts a nudge after all ... K