Broken Page & Redirect Advisor
Finds pages receiving traffic that no longer exist or lead nowhere useful
- agent ›New this week: /outlet/rain-jackets returns 404 and still had 640 sessions, mostly from Google and old newsletters. The page brought in DKK 22,500 last month. Suggested redirect: the rain jacket list with the sale filter on.
- you ›We know about the dead outlet pages. You told us last month.
- agent ›Those five are still muted, as you asked. This one is new — it was deleted on Monday, in the outlet clean-up.
- you ›Can't we just send it to the front page?
- agent ›Visitors on that link were looking for discounted rain jackets; on the front page they'd see garden furniture. The filtered rain jacket list is the closest live match, so that's where the 301 should go.
- you ›Were other pages deleted in that clean-up?
- agent ›Ten more. None of them had a visit in the last 30 days, so they're not on the list — this is the only one that still gets traffic.
What it does
Looks for URLs that still have visitors — from search, ads, newsletters or old links — but are deleted, redirected or answer with an error instead of a page. For each one it estimates the revenue at risk from the traffic and the revenue the page used to bring in, and recommends what to do: the live page that best matches what visitors came for, or restoring the page if nothing does. It remembers what the team has already acknowledged, so a known dead link does not come back every day; new breakages are reported when they appear.
An example insight.
What a result from Broken Page & Redirect Advisor looks like. The numbers are an illustration, not a customer's.
12 old campaign URLs still getting 800 visits/week — all return 404
Google and email links still point to last season's campaign pages which now return 404 errors. Setting up 301 redirects to current equivalents would recover this traffic immediately.
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