The Broken Links Report

The broken links report is probably one of the most essential reports. Broken links on a site are extremely poor for user experience, and a lost SEO opportunity.

The Source URL indicates the URL that the broken link originates from. This is the page you will want to change to fix it.

If you click on a URL in this field it will open up the page. You can then find the link and repair it. If it isn't often then most browsers have a view-source (normally by CTRL-U) and by searching for the Broken Link you can often get more information about where it is.

Self explanatory! This is the destination url that isn't working.

These could be internal links or external links. Importantly, these are links that were not working at the time of the crawl. Again, if you click on them it will open up the link for you so you can double check. If it's an external site then they may have had trouble at the time, or in the rare case a site like LinkedIn always reports that the page isn't working to crawlers(!) - you can safely change the status to "Ignore" for these and they won't show on future reports.

This is the contents on the broken link - i.e. what is linked on the web page. This is just to aid you in finding the link on the Source page to fix it.