Redirect and 404 fixesProblem Solving

Redirect chains and 404 errors from your crawl export: fix list

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Redirect chains and 404 errors from your crawl export: fix list

Example result

Example for the Standard package

SEO audit: website of a regional plumbing company

Summary

AreaScoreMain issue
Indexing and crawlingNeeds work38 blog tags pages indexed, thin content
Technical healthFairMobile load time 4.8 s on service pages
On-pageNeeds work11 of 18 service pages share near-identical titles
Local signalsWeakTown pages are copies with the town name swapped
ContentFairBlog traffic is high, but posts do not link to services

Findings (excerpt)

1. Duplicate and weak titles (high priority)

11 service pages use the pattern "Plumbing Services | Northgate". Searchers and search engines cannot tell "boiler repair" from "drain unblocking".

PageCurrent titleSuggested title
/boiler-repairPlumbing Services, NorthgateBoiler Repair in [City], Same-Day Callout, Northgate
/blocked-drainsPlumbing Services, NorthgateBlocked Drains Cleared in [City] from £89, Northgate

2. Town pages are near duplicates (high priority)

The 7 town pages are 94% identical text. Each needs at least 250 words unique to that town: areas covered, typical jobs there, travel time, a local customer review.

3. Slow service pages on mobile (medium)

Hero images average 1.9 MB. Compressing to WebP and setting width to 1,200 px would bring load time to about 2.5 s.

4. Blog does not pass value to services (medium)

The top 10 posts get 62% of organic visits, but only 2 of them link to a service page. "Why is my boiler losing pressure?" alone gets about 1,100 visits a month and links nowhere.

5. Tag pages indexed (low)

38 /tag/ pages with 1–3 posts each. Set them to noindex.

Prioritised action plan

#ActionEffortImpactWho
1Rewrite titles and meta descriptions for 18 service pages1 dayHighContent
2Write unique content for 7 town pages3–4 daysHighContent
3Add service links to the top 10 blog posts2 hoursMediumContent
4Compress hero images2 hoursMediumDeveloper
5Noindex tag pages, update sitemap1 hourLowDeveloper

Re-check: crawl again 6 weeks after items 1–3 are live and compare impressions for "[service] + [town]" queries.

Client: Northgate Plumbing & Heating, 11 engineers, serving one city and 6 nearby towns Site: 214 pages: home, 18 service pages, 7 town pages, 160 blog posts, contact and legal pages Goal: more calls from local searches such as "boiler repair [town]"

The client and all details are made up.

About this service

Crawlers like Screaming Frog, Sitebulb or Ahrefs report redirect chains, loops and 404s by the hundred, but the raw export does not tell you which ones matter or where each broken URL should point. You paste the relevant rows of your crawl export, and we sort them: chains to collapse into one hop, loops to break, 404s worth redirecting because they have links or traffic, 404s that are fine as they are, and internal links that should be updated instead of redirected.

What is included

  • What you getA fix list from your crawl rows: redirect map with source and best target, chains collapsed to one hop, internal links to update with the page they sit on, and 404s safe to leave, delivered as text you can paste into a sheet or redirect plugin.
  • Redirect mapEach broken URL with its best target
  • Chains and loopsCollapsed to a single hop
  • Internal link fixesLinks to update at the source
  • 404s to leaveJunk URLs that should stay gone

How it works

  1. 1
    ExportYou paste the crawl rows
  2. 2
    SortingWe sort and pick targets
  3. 3
    Fix listYou apply redirects and link fixes

What we need from you

A link to the site and the crawl export rows pasted as text: redirect chains, 3xx and 4xx URLs with their source pages, plus inbound link counts or traffic for the 404s if your tool shows them.

We will ask you:

  • Which crawler did the export come from?
  • Paste the redirect and 404 rows with their source pages
  • How will the redirects be added?

Compare packages

PackagesBasicUp to 100 rows$12StandardUp to 400 rows$25PremiumUp to 1,000 rows$45
Deadline2 days3 days5 days
Revisions122
Crawl rows reviewedup to 100up to 400up to 1,000
Redirect mapYesYesYes
Internal links to updateYesYesYes
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You pay when you order, but the money is released only for accepted work.

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  • Free revisionsAsk for changes within your brief as many times as the package allows.
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  • Redo or a full refundIf the result does not match your brief and the revisions did not fix it, or the work takes more than twice its deadline, write in the order chat: we will redo the work or refund the payment in full.
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Questions and answers

Can I attach the export file?

This service works with pasted text, so copy the rows from the export into the brief. If the export is long, paste the 3xx and 4xx rows only.

Should every 404 be redirected?

No. Only URLs that had links, traffic or a clear replacement. Redirecting everything to the home page is treated as a soft 404 and helps no one.

Do you add the redirects to my server?

No, we do not log in to your site or server. The list is written in a form your redirect plugin or developer can use.

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