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Broken Link Checker
A single broken link buried three pages deep rarely gets reported by a visitor — they just hit the dead end and leave. Multiply that across a site that’s been live for a few years, had a few redesigns, and linked out to a handful of sources that have since moved or shut down, and you’ve usually got more 404 errors than you’d guess. This broken link checker finds them without you clicking through every page by hand.
What the Scan Covers
- Internal broken links — links between your own pages that point to a URL that’s been moved, renamed, or deleted
- External broken links — links out to other sites that no longer resolve
- Redirect chains — links that technically work but bounce through two or three redirects before landing, which slows the page and dilutes link value
- Orphaned pages — pages that exist on your site but have no internal links pointing to them at all, which makes them nearly invisible to both users and search crawlers
Why Broken Links Hurt SEO
Search engines crawl your site by following links. A crawler that repeatedly hits dead ends wastes what’s called crawl budget — time and resources Google allocates to indexing your site — on pages that don’t exist, instead of finding and indexing the pages that do. On a large site, that can mean legitimately new or updated pages take longer to get indexed. On any site, broken links are also a direct trust signal to a human visitor: nothing says “this site hasn’t been maintained” faster than a 404 page.
How the Dead Link Finder Works
Enter your domain and the crawler works through your site’s internal link structure, following each link and logging the response code it gets back. A typical mid-sized business site (20–50 pages) finishes in a few minutes. You’ll get a list organized by the page the broken link lives on, the destination URL, and the error type — so you’re fixing links in context, not working from an unsorted list of dead URLs.
A Pattern Worth Watching For
Site migrations and URL restructuring are the single biggest cause of broken links we see. Someone renames a service page for better SEO, forgets to set up a redirect from the old URL, and every internal link that used to point there — plus every external site that linked to it — now dead-ends. Running a link check right after any URL change, not just periodically, catches this before it compounds.
For ongoing link cleanup and the backlink side of this — building new links rather than just fixing broken ones — our backlinking service and website maintenance service cover both directions.
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