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How does the Internal Link Tracker work?

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The Internal Link Tracker (ITL) is part of the Content Enrichment app within Elovate. If you have access to Content Enrichment, you automatically have access to the ITL feature.

The Internal Link Tracker is designed to detect and help you fix broken internal links across your Magento store. These include links resulting in 404 (not found) or 301 (redirect) errors — both of which negatively impact SEO and user experience. The ITL allows you to manage these links in a centralized, efficient way.

What Does the Internal Link Tracker Do?

The Internal Link Tracker crawls all internal links present in the following content types:

  • Products

  • Categories

  • CMS pages

  • Blocks

It identifies links that are either broken (404) or redirected (301) and allows you to replace or repair them. By default, this crawling process runs daily at 03:00 (server time), ensuring you are always up to date with the latest issues. You can also manually trigger a scan. A link may break, for example, if it points to a product that has since been removed from the frontend of your store.

How to Use the ITL

1. Add a New Tracker

  1. Go to Content Enrichment > Internal Link Tracker

  2. Click “Add new tracker”

  3. Choose which store views you want to crawl

  4. The crawl will start and may take some time depending on the size of your catalog

2. View Tracker Results

  • All added trackers will appear in the overview

  • Under the “Items” column, you’ll see how many broken links were detected

  • Click the store name to view detailed results

3. Review Detected Issues

For each issue, you’ll see:

  • The relative URL that caused the error

  • The type of error (404 or 301)

  • The number of occurrences

Click on the problematic URL to go to the detail page where you can fix it.

Fixing Links

On the detail page for a broken URL, you’ll see several actions:

A. Preview Link

  • A link to the frontend of your store to verify whether the broken link really fails

  • Note: if the page is removed or unpublished, it won’t open

B. Enter New Relative URL

  • Replace the broken URL with a valid one

  • This change will be applied to all instances where the broken link is found

  • Perfect for bulk updates

C. Bulk Anchor Text Replacement

  • You can also change the link text (anchor) next to the URL

  • Any identical text with the same internal link will be updated in bulk

D. Manually Edit Link

  • Manually edit the link inside the content block

  • Useful if you need to remove or add something custom

E. Save & Save & Next

  • Use these buttons to save changes or move to the next broken link immediately

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