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Scraping Broken Links with SEO Spider and Ahrefs

Scraping Broken Links with SEO Spider and Ahrefs

A step-by-step guide to quickly scraping broken links which you can contact the site owner about and get your link listed instead.
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Initial setup:
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Finding seed broken links with Google:
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Create a new Google Sheet template
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Create a list of search terms
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Google your first search term
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Search each resulting URL in SEO Spider
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Note all broken links in your sheet
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Repeat until you have your target
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Finding sites hosting these broken links with Ahrefs:
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Search the link in Ahrefs Site Explorer
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Check the backlinks pointing to the broken URL
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Add these backlinks to 'Also linked from' columns
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Repeat for every seed backlink you found in the first section
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Finding the site owner's contact information:
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Fill in the site owner's email addresses