How to find broken links on a Yandex KIT store

Yandex KIT is a SaaS constructor for physical-goods stores: industry templates, catalog, cart, payments, a visual editor. Custom sections may include HTML and CSS. They do not run your JavaScript. That already tells you how links die.

Where KIT sites rot

• Imported catalog. You pulled products from a marketplace or a spreadsheet. Half the SKUs were unpublished later. Cards and “similar” blocks still href them.
• Template blocks (header, footer, promo strips) reused across pages. One dead campaign URL in the theme is every URL.
• Custom sections — pasted HTML from an old landing, including mailto: that is fine and /sale-2024 that is not.
• Domain cutover. KIT on a yandex-hosted preview vs your domain. Scan the host customers pay on.
• Images in the catalog after a feed refresh. Broken images first-class.

How to scan

Log into nothing. Open the public storefront. Advanced Broken Links Search on home, a category, a product, checkout-adjacent content if it is still your origin (payment widgets are often third-party — a 403 there is not your 404).

Then crawl the shop domain. KIT is not WordPress; there is no plugin inside the admin that replaces a rendered-DOM scan.

How to fix

Fix the block in the KIT editor (theme / page / section), not a random product. If the product is gone, 301 to the category or a successor — if KIT’s SEO settings allow redirects; otherwise remove the href.

Do not paste a JS redirect in a custom section and call it a 301. KIT will not execute it, and search engines should not have to.

KIT is new enough that a lot of stores are still on the first template. Scan before the first catalog cleanup, not after the first complaint.