Broken Link Checker

Imagine searching on Google, clicking a result, and landing on a webpage only to encounter a 404 error on a link you tried. Such experiences are frustrating, and our broken link checker tool ensures your website visitors never face this disappointment by identifying and fixing broken links.

Broken links are, in other words, dead links on websites. These are links that no longer work, or that direct you to a webpage with a 404 error message.

• The broken links can either be internal or external.
• An internal broken link is a link on your website that routes you to another landing
• page of your website, having a 404 error.
• An external broken link is a link on your website that directs you to another website's landing page and has a 404 error.

Several causes are there that result in the form of broken links.
Some of them are

• The web owner has entered an invalid URL as a link.
• The web owner formatted the URL in the wrong manner.
• The web owner deletes the web page.
• The web page is modified and not updated.
• The web owner permanently moved the web page, but it was not updated.
• The web owner temporarily removes the web page.
• The web owner permanently removes the web page.
• The user manually entered the wrong URL of the web page in the browser.
• The web owner uses some firewall or other software to block the page.

On the surface, you will not feel a much-broken link impact. But why and how do broken links harm your website? In reality, you will bear consequences, damage your website reputation, SEO score, and SERP rankings, and significantly hurt your user experience.

What happens when the user lands on a web page that is dead or broken?

First of all, the user will immediately leave your website.

• The user can negatively rate your website on other social media platforms or forums.
• The user can suggest other people not to visit your website.
• It will increase your bounce rate and will eventually result in lower SERPs.
• Having a negative reputation results in a negative SEO ranking.

• Open the broken link checker tool
• Enter the specific page URL.
• Click on the analyze button.
• It will give you a detailed report on the link type (internal or external), its status (broken or not), and whether that link is do-follow or no-follow (link this to no-follow tool) of that specific page URL you entered.

• First, check the broken links on your website.
• Deeply analyze why this is happening.
• As per the analysis, update or modify the URLs or redirect them to some other web page.

Do your website's links audit regularly so that you can overcome that problem at the beginning. Moreover, use our add nofollow to link online tool to improve SEO.