suganth mathi
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- Jan 22, 2020
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I have an issue on my site, There was a url which we removed and marked 410 from site. but still ahrefs able to find that url and mention its source as "seed url". where to check this url?
What is seed url? (Technical Issue)
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teneko
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- Aug 25, 2023
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Happens sometimes. Ahrefs crawls the web independently so even if a page is gone it might still have it cached from earlier crawls. seed URL means Ahrefs first found that link through its own internal crawling path not from an external backlink. To check search the URL in Google using site:yourdomain.com if it doesn’t show up it’s gone. You can also look in your server logs or Search Console’s Crawl stats to see if bots are still hitting it.
- Sep 10, 2010
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Looks like instead of redirecting to another page, or showing a 404 page, the backend instead returned 410 status. It should be okay (it is pretty unsual though for a normal web page. 410 is more common with REST APIs) judging by this stackoverflow answer:
Code:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/1855285Also, may be try visiting that url directly and see what HTTP status it returns. It may now be returning 404, in which case ahref is still showing cached data.
- Mar 2, 2021
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The reason a URL that you deleted with a 410 Gone still appears as a "seed URL" in Ahrefs is typically because it was detected or linked to by Ahrefs at some point in the past. To find the source, go to Ahrefs' "Linked From" column. Then, check that your sitemap and internal links do not cite it. Ahrefs will eventually stop monitoring it after a certain number of re-crawls.