Links issues
Every Links finding Crawl Cove's crawler checks for, each with an example finding and a step-by-step fix.
Link findings are about how the pages inside your site connect. Internal links are how a crawler discovers pages and how importance flows between them, so most of these are cheap fixes with a direct effect.
Broken internal links is the High one: a link to a page that does not exist sends visitors and crawlers to a dead end. Links that point at a redirect instead of the final URL, links marked nofollow, and hrefs that are not valid URLs at all waste the same signal more quietly.
The rest are about the shape of the site. Pages buried many clicks from the homepage, pages with only one link pointing in, dead-end pages that link nowhere, and pages carrying hundreds of links all change how evenly crawl attention and ranking signal spread. Two are about wording and gaps: link text such as "click here" that tells a search engine nothing about the destination (descriptive anchor text shows how to rewrite it), and pairs of pages on the same topic that do not link to each other yet.
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High severity
Broken Internal Links: A Typo or a Deleted Page
An internal link that points at a same-site URL the crawl never found, usually a typo, a deleted page, or a path that changed and was never updated.
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Low severity
Too Many Internal Links On One Page
A page carrying hundreds of internal links, often a mega-menu, tag cloud or bloated footer, dilutes the ranking equity each link passes on.
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Info severity
Internal Linking Opportunities You're Missing
Two pages on your site cover the same topic but don't link to each other yet. Closing that gap is one of the cheapest ranking gains available.
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Low severity
Nofollow Internal Links: Blocking Your Own Signal
An internal link marked rel="nofollow" tells search engines to ignore it, blocking ranking signal between two of your own pages for no reason.
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Low severity
Dead-End Pages: No Outbound Links
An indexable page with no outbound internal links to anywhere else on the site, why that strands link equity, and how to fix it.
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Low severity
Excessive Crawl Depth: Pages Buried Too Deep
An indexable page too many clicks from the homepage gets less crawl budget and weaker internal PageRank. What counts as too deep, and how to fix it.
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Low severity
Non-Descriptive Anchor Text ("Click Here" Links)
Internal links whose visible text is a generic phrase like "click here" or "read more", why that wastes a ranking signal, and how to fix it.
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Low severity
Underlinked Pages: Too Few Internal Links In
An indexable page with only one internal inbound link, not zero, reads as unimportant to search engines even when its content is genuinely good.
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Medium severity
Internal Link to a Redirect: An Easy Free Fix
An internal link pointing at a URL that redirects, instead of straight at the final page. What it means, a real example, and how repointing it helps.
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Low severity
Malformed Links: When a Href Isn't a URL
A link href that cannot be parsed as a URL at all, such as a pasted address. What it means, a real example, and why it never shows up as a broken link.
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