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External Broken Links

All instances of external links where the target URL return a broken status code (400, 404, 410, 500, or 501).

Priority: Low

Impact: Negative

What issues it may cause​

Users who visit the external links will land on a broken page resulting in a poor user experience.

How do you fix it​

Update the links to point to working URLs, or remove them.

What is the positive impact​

Users will have an improved user-experience which can help to build brand recognition and increased click-through rates from search engine results pages.

How to fetch the data for this report template​

You will need to run a crawl for report template to generate report. When report has been generated and you have crawl id you can fetch data for the report using the following query:

query GetReportForCrawl($crawlId: ObjectID!, $reportTemplateCode: String!) {
  getCrawl(id: $crawlId) {
    reportsByCode(
      input: {
        reportTypeCodes: Basic
        reportTemplateCodes: [$reportTemplateCode]
      }
    ) {
      rows {
        nodes {
          ... on CrawlLinks {
            urlTo
            urlToTitle
            anchorText
            urlFrom
            urlFromTitle
            urlToDeeprank
            urlFromDeeprank
            urlToStatusCode
            urlToDeeprank
            urlFromStatusCode
            urlFromDeeprank
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

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