: How to check for 404 pages from other sites? I just caught a domain that was going to be dropped. Business very similar to mine. The previous site had few subpages and they were linked from
I just caught a domain that was going to be dropped. Business very similar to mine.
The previous site had few subpages and they were linked from outside. However it's hard now to find what all the subpages URL were.
How can I find all the previous subpages?
Wayback machine helps in part.
Search Console doesn't help I think.
How can I find the previous urls of that domain? Or at least the urls that were and still are back linked in other sites and from time to time visitors click on them and will get a 404?
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If you are using a httpd apache server you can just refer the access logs which resulted in 404. If your logging is fine then you should be getting the request url with the request type.
If your logging is not upto the mark then use the following log format:
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t "%r" %>s %b "%{Referer}i" "%{User-Agent}i"" common
As you said the internet archive should give you some sense with content and link.
The other option would be to use backlink checker and it should give you some details depending on the popularity of the domain.
Note: You may need to find old preferred URL version (http, https, www etc) when you will use the backlink checker.
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