Internal

The Internal links report lists broken links inside your own site — links the robot followed and found leading nowhere. Yandex notes plainly that these links are excluded from search.

What the table shows

• The page carrying the link.
• The page it points to.
• The HTTP status — 4xx and 5xx. When a status changes, the entry disappears from the report after a while, so the list is self-cleaning once the underlying page is fixed.
• The link text.
• When the information was last updated.

Up to 10,000 broken internal links per site.

Why this list is the one to clear

Because it is entirely within your control. External broken links depend on other people’s sites; these are yours, created by your templates and your editors, and every one of them wastes a crawl request that a real page could have used.

The three usual causes

• Content moved without a redirect, most often during a redesign.
• Hard-coded links in templates that survived a URL structure change — these produce the largest counts, because one template error multiplies across every page using it.
• Typos in hand-written editorial links.

Working method

Sort by the target URL rather than the source. A hundred entries pointing at the same missing page is one fix; a hundred entries pointing at a hundred different pages is an editorial problem. Fix by pattern, then let the report clear itself as statuses change.

The signal worth watching

The trend, not the total. A count that jumps after a release means the release broke something, and that is worth knowing in the same week rather than at the next audit.