How can I find URLs that can't be found in order to fix them?

  • Google tells me that I have lots of crawl error addresses. They are 404 error or similar addresses. Google shows where the links are supposed to be linking from but often I can’t find the link. I uploaded the Broken Link checker plugin but it didn’t find near as many links as Google is finding. I fixed all the links the plugin let me know about but I still have over 100 at Google Webmaster Tools.
    There are 75 links that go to an internal page(/?page_id=1025) that can’t be found. I have no idea what page it is and I only have two pages in my blog. One isn’t public and the other works fine. Neither have links coming from the 75 posts that are supposed to be containing this bad link.

    Any advice?

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  • Are you using a Hosting Service? They should have some kind of Control Panel, cPanel or Plesk. In there will be Activity Log and search for 404. In the log will be a referral link which is the page giving the bad link. Or look for AWSTATS.
    ANd you can try the W3 validator one (it skips some links & excluded pages in robots.txt) at:
    https://validator.w3.org/checklink/

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