How SpringTrax Helped A News Website Understand Their Site's 404 Errors

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How SpringTrax Helped A

News Website

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News Website Knew They Had Some 404s Google Webmaster Tools reported on thousands.

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Are Those 404s A Big Enough Problem?

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“None of our visitors see those 404s anyway. Right?”

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“We’re Too Busy To Fix Those 404s!”

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The Problem With 404s

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They Signed Up For SpringTrax To Understand Their 404s After pasting in our tracking code, you’ll get data in just a few hours.

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Visitor

Visitor

Visitor

News Website

Lost Visitor

82% Of People Who Reached A 404 Left Hundreds of visitors every week leaving due to 404s

404 Error Page Lost

Visitor

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Lost Visitors Less likely to return in the future.

Less likely to share the site.

Lost Visitor

404 Error Page

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More Broken Links Than They Realized Other tools weren’t telling them about 26% of their site’s broken links.

Broken links from their site Broken links from somewhere else on the web

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More Broken Links Than They Realized Other tools weren’t telling them about 26% of their site’s broken links.

Broken links from their site Broken links from somewhere else on the web

They wouldn’t have known about these 404s without SpringTrax.

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Broken Links From Search Results 12.5% of their broken links came from Google or Bing search results.

Broken links from search engines

Broken links resulting from search results.

Broken links resulting from other sites, old bookmarks, social networks, and more.

Broken links resulting from their site.

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How SpringTrax Helped

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Regular Reporting & A Clear Sense Of Priority Which 404 errors are the most critical to fix.

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Detailed Help Fixing Broken Links Step-by-step instructions to help fix their broken links quickly.

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Continued Monitoring Keeps The Problem Away We’ll alert you so that you know about problems as they happen.

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How do 404 errors affect your visitors?

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