01 Feb 404 Error Pages – How to set up alerts on Google to track Error Pages

How to Set Up a Google Alert on Google Analytics

In his article Optimizing Error Pages: Creating Opportunities Out Of Mistakes Daniel Waisberg explains how important it is to track, monitor and analyze error pages.
One way to do this is to create an alert for 404 Error Pages on Google Analytics.

Google Analytics can alert you each time 404 traffic reaches a certain number of visits a day. You can get notified by email, or text message each time someone hits an error page.

Find 404 Error Pages on Google’s Webmaster Tools

You can also get 404 Error Page information from Google’s Webmaster Tools — . Your first view of a web site’s dashboard will tell you if there are any Crawl Errors:

Google Webmaster Tools – Not Found Pages

When you’re ready to correct your errors, go to CRAWL > CRAWL ERRORS

Google Webmaster Tools Crawl Errors

The URL Errors are listed, and when you click on the specific URLs a window shows you the page with the mistaken link.

Error Pages – Find the broken link

Once you fix your errors, mark the page as fixed.

Mark as Fixed in Google’s Webmaster Tools