Get Started: Scanning Pages for Broken Links

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 Link Manager app report. 

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

Get Started

From your Shopify dashboard:

1. Click the navigation menu for 'Ablestar Link Manager'
2. Click the 'Site Scan' menu on the left sidebar
3. You will redirect to the 'Site Scan' view:

Run a Scan

From the 'Site scan' page:

• Click on the Run button
• 'Run site scan' window popup appears:

• (Optional): Add your email address to receive a copy of the report via email
• Click on the Run button to start processing
• 'Site scan detail' page appears with status
• Click the Refresh button to see updates in progress

The preview pane will identify and detail all broken links:

• Click the Export button to download specific detail for analysis
• Click the eye icon to preview the page with the issue
• Click the pencil icon to edit the page with the issue

Review or Edit Broken Links

From the 'Site scan detail' view, if you click through any row on the scan report, the Site scan detail page will appear. A list of all broken URLs are returned with several options from this view:

• Copy and paste: hover over any page path and click the 'copy' icon
• Preview: click the eye icon to see a preview of the page
• Edit: click the edit icon to adjust the broken link
• Export: clicking the Export button allows you to download a local copy

If the homepage is identified with a broken link, the theme will need to be modified, and no edit or preview option will be visible from this view.

Learn more about editing your Shopify Theme.

✅ 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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