The hard part of broken backlink recovery isn't finding them — Ahrefs hands you the list. The hard part is matching 1,200 dead URLs to live pages without inventing redirects to 404s. A 3-step workflow using Ahrefs exports and Claude batch-classification.
A 4-step workflow that exports Ahrefs' Broken Backlinks report, batch-classifies each dead URL by topic with Claude, and maps it to the closest live page or a fresh 301 redirect — recovering link equity without a developer.
