Internal linking audit after site migration — where to start?
Internal linking audit after site migration — where to start?
We just migrated from a WordPress subdomain to a new domain. I suspect many internal links still point to the old domain. How do I use LinkJuice to audit and fix this systematically?
Re: Internal linking audit after site migration — where to start?
Crawl your new domain with Screaming Frog and upload to LinkJuice. Then use the Status Code filter to find all links with 3xx status codes — these are links pointing to redirects (likely old-domain URLs that are 301ing to the new domain).
Export that list, sort by source page, and systematically update the links in your CMS. After migration, you typically want zero internal links going through redirects. A clean internal link graph is one of the most important post-migration tasks.
Export that list, sort by source page, and systematically update the links in your CMS. After migration, you typically want zero internal links going through redirects. A clean internal link graph is one of the most important post-migration tasks.
Re: Internal linking audit after site migration — where to start?
Just to add to what's been said — I ran into the same issue last month. The key for me was checking the crawl was set to JavaScript rendering mode. That doubled the number of links Screaming Frog found and the LinkJuice PageRank shifted noticeably for several pages.
Re: Internal linking audit after site migration — where to start?
One thing I'd add: even if the scores look confusing at first, sort by PageRank descending and compare the top 10 against your GA4 sessions. The correlation is usually clear. High-traffic pages should also have high internal PageRank — if they don't, you've found a real problem.