Audit rules
Internal Link to an Error Page
The page links to pages of the same site that answer with a 4xx or 5xx status. In a QuikSEO audit, a failure of this rule has error severity and is left out of the score. Below are the exact condition, its exceptions and the sources behind it, followed by the other rules of the same group.
site.broken_internal_linkError01 — Definition
How This Rule Is Checked
The rule is a pure function of the fetched page: no extra requests, no account settings. The same input always gives the same result.
Rule Severity and Score
- Rule id
site.broken_internal_link- Group
- Site (Crawl)
- Severity of a failure
- Error
- Counts in the score
- No, the site rules of a crawl are left out of the score
- Required for a score
- No
Condition and Exceptions
- Condition
- A followed internal link points to a crawled URL that answered 4xx or 5xx → fail on the linking page
- Exceptions
- Links to URLs the crawl did not fetch are not judged
Sources
- Sources
- How HTTP Status Codes Affect Google's Crawlers (Google Search Central, Q01)
Link best practices for Google (Google Search Central, Q35)
02 — Site (Crawl)
Other Rules in This Group
The other checks of the same group, each with its own condition and sources.
- Duplicate Titlesite.duplicate_title
- Duplicate Meta Descriptionsite.duplicate_meta_description
- Internal Link Through a Redirectsite.redirect_internal_link
- Invalid Sitemapsite.sitemap_invalid
- Sitemap URL Not Indexablesite.sitemap_url_not_indexable
- Hreflang Without Return Linksite.hreflang_not_reciprocal
- Orphan Pagesite.orphan_page
- Deep Pagesite.click_depth