You have to go through your server logs, find the 404 errors, make list of URL with errors, then decide what to do with them, then spend the in fixing it..
Instead of you having to hunt down 404 errors, all the 404 errors on your website are captured and presented in easy to understand format.
The monitor captures URLs with the errors, but also the number of times each URL has been accessed.
You have the option to sort the 404 errors based on URI, the number of hits, or the time.
The advanced 404 monitor captures the data with each 404 error, which lets you figure.
The Advanced 404 monitor does that by capturing Operating System, Browser, and other User Agent Information about the user.
In most cases, you can set high limit, but, in certain cases, for example, when you change your site's structure, you can reduce the limit to reduce the strain on your server and manage the errors better.
One of the common solutions to 404 errors is to redirect the error causing URL to different one.
Both the redirection and the monitor plugin work hand-in-hand, and you'll be able to redirect pages with errors in single click right from the monitor — no jumping through hoops to go to another plugin and making the changes there..
Once you install 404 Monitor for the time, you can head over to 'Settings page and activate the simple or advanced mode..
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