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How to find and fix broken images

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An image that answers 404 shows a placeholder to every visitor and nothing to Google Images. Fix the file path, re-upload the file or remove the tag.

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Broken images

Why it matters. A broken image shows a placeholder or nothing at all, and every visitor sees it. Moved uploads, renamed files and expired CDN links are the usual causes.

How to fix it.
  1. Fix or replace the src of each listed image; re-upload files that were deleted.
  2. After a migration, check the uploads folder path and any image CDN rewrite rule.

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