2. Site Scan

As your Shopify store changes and pages are removed, you may have broken links somewhere on your site. We have introduced two methods for scanning broken links:

1. Ablestar Shopify Broken Link Checker: Quick solution when you need a one-time free option to scan for broken links on your store.
2. Ablestar Link Manager: To safeguard your store against ongoing link and 404 issues that affect your domain rating. Install this powerful tool to see a real-time update of 404 page issue, fix the errors with redirects and schedule periodic scans of your store to proactively find broken links.

How it Works

To scan your store for broken links, our scanner starts on the homepage of your site.

From there, it looks for all hyperlinks to other linked pages and combs through those pages. If any page links return a '404 Page Not Found' error, it logs the issue to display in the Site Scan Detail report:

Our scanner technology repeats this process for each page on your site until all pages have been checked (up to a 10,000 page maximum).

Get Started

From the Ablestar Link Manager dashboard:

1. Click the 'Site Scan' menu on the left sidebar

The 'Site scan' view will appear with a list of a historical scans:

• Click on the Run button to process a new scan
• 'Run site scan' window popup appears, where you have the option to send the report by email, or just click Run to kick off the report.

• Status will appear as processing continues

Site Scan Detail

Once the scan is complete, a list of all broken URLs are returned with several options from this view:

• Copy and paste: hover over any page or broken link path to click the 'copy' icon
• Preview: click the eye icon to see a preview of the page from the UI or user view
• Edit: click the pencil icon to adjust the broken link
• Sidekick: click the sparkle icon (or Explain with Sidekick button at the top of the page) to ask questions like "How do I fix these broken URLs?"
• Export: clicking the Export button allows you to download a local copy

✅ Tips and Troubleshooting

• Depending on the number of pages on your site, it may take several minutes for the scan to complete.
• Make sure to remove password protection from your online store before you begin.
• Learn more about creating Wildcard Redirects and scheduling automated scans

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