A way to finding out 404 errors

[ahdtravel]

Need to find out the source of these 404 errors... i can see the errors in the Google webmaster tools but cannot find out the errors in it.. it is really frustrating... when trying to look for the 404 error sources... is there any tool that can be used to find the source of these errors, my platform is on .Net Would really like to get these errors of from my site... its being like a year that these errors keep poping out from no where... and i cannot find them were they are coming from?...

if any one has any suggestions please kindly feel free to throw in... than you

[AnkitMaheshwari]

Google Webmaster list the source that is pages that link to 404 pages as well.

Is it not showing the source pages?

[ahdtravel]

no it is not... there are more than 800 pages tat Google has being showing me saying 404 errors.... now i really don't know were are these pages coming from... so dose anyone has any idea... how to find out these errors?....

[ahdtravel]

so is there no way that we can find the broken links in the site.. or any tool that is there that can find the links in the site.... i humble request all you guys to please help me with this... thank you

[cgrantski]

there are lots of tools that will find broken links on your site; search for "link checker".

Also if you get your server logs, the access or activity logs that show browser requests, the 404's will be in there as well as the previous page, so you can see where they are coming from. If you don't know how to read logs, there are plenty of tutorials on the net.

Also, you should check the Google Webmaster help for more information on what those 404's really means and the different things that can be causing them. You may be looking for broken links when it's really something else.

[micron]

I track all 404 errors by creating a PHP script named "404.php" in the home directory. This script checks the referrer, and if external, it logs it in a MySQL database (increment count column if already exists). Not only does this help me identify broken links outside my domain, but it also gives me a good indication of the types of hacks (tests of vulnerability) that occur every day.

I also provide a Google search box that allows the user another way to find the page they were looking for.

Good luck

[kakku85]

To find 404 errors you can either go for Google Webmaster Central or you can use a very good tool named "Xenu". It is very good tool to track any missing pages or links.

[phranque]

it might be external requests for nonexistent resources.
you won't find this with xenu linksleuth but you will find this information in GWC as well as your server access logs.