SEO Guide to Understand Broken Links and Fix Them

16/01/2013 By 23 Comments

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) have too much importance to get targeted visitors on your blog.

Every blogger want huge traffic on their blog and good ranking in Google SERP. Google have become so much unpredictable these days that following all the guidelines have become so much important for webmasters.broken links 1 SEO Guide to Understand Broken Links and Fix Them

When Google launch and algorithms like Panda/Penguin updates they always combat low quality blogs which have build wrong backlinks or have too much broken links on their blog.

Google is launching these updates to deliver quality at the end user. So if there is any 404 error at your blog then this is wrong thing in Google eyes.

When a user is accessing your blog url and if there is 404 error then you failed to deliver the content which user was looking.

So we much check our blog if there is any broken link present or not.

These are the sites to check your Broken links.

  • xenulink
  • dead-links.com
  • linktiger.com
  • www.brokenlinkcheck.com
  • www.iwebtool.com/broken_link_checker

You can check your url here and see if there are some broken links at your blog.

How these broken links comes?

There are two main reasons for the broken links.

  • Page/Post is no more existing at your blog.
  • Link in your comments are not existing (Person who commented on your blog might have deleted his/her blog)

You can check all the broken links with the site mentioned above.

How to Remove Them?

Download Broken Link Checker Plugin from WordPress Repository.

Features of this plugin

  • Monitors links in your posts, pages, comments, the blogroll, and custom fields (optional).
  • Detects links that don’t work, missing images and redirects.
  • Notifies you either via the Dashboard or by email.
  • Makes broken links display differently in posts (optional).
  • Prevents search engines from following broken links (optional).
  • You can search and filter links by URL, anchor text and so on.
  • Links can be edited directly from the plugin’s page, without manually updating each post.

After installation of this plugin this will check the links on regular basis and notify you when there is any broken link on your blog.

You can do all setting of this plugin in Setting > Link Checker

Here is screenshot from my blog.

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You can check you broken links from Tools > Broken Links

Select all the links and click unlink them.

Do the setting properly so that this plugin will scan your website accordingly.

Keep checking for broken links and always unlink them if there is any.

Final Words !!

Finally I would like to say that if you haven’t used this plugin then go and install this plugin to save your blog from Google penalty.

Share your thoughts in comments.

You can ask questions if there is any.

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  1. george@hostgator coupon 2013 says:
    16/01/2013 at 9:40 PM

    Hi Kulwant, I use plugin called broken links for the very purpose. Its highly effective
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  2. Ankit @ Excel Tricks says:
    16/01/2013 at 9:53 PM

    Broken Link Checker is a great plugin. But the problem that many people face is that sometimes it becomes resource extensive and consumes hell lots of cpu memory. I feel xenu is a better tool for detecting broken links.
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  3. Nishant Tripathi says:
    16/01/2013 at 10:02 PM

    after finding broken links…cant we can just put an nofollow html tag on the brokenlinks instead of deleting them? will it effect the SEO?
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  4. Ravi says:
    17/01/2013 at 12:34 AM

    I am sure that this list will be very helpful regarding Broken Links. But Just to Be curious, what if i don’t pay attention to Broken Links, can they affect my Blog Traffic and PageRank?
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  5. Hariharakumar says:
    17/01/2013 at 2:03 AM

    Broken link checker is a great plugin for finding broken links. I have already installed it on my blog.
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  6. Enstine Muki says:
    17/01/2013 at 11:55 AM

    Nice tut bro
    I’m getting this done on my blog right away
    I really appreciate this and thanks for sharing
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  7. Rajkumar Jonnala says:
    17/01/2013 at 10:54 PM

    Thanks for sharing the information, just going to use the WP plugin to ensure that everything is correct in my blog. The situation may occur if you have changed from blogger to WordPress too.
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  8. mohit says:
    23/01/2013 at 12:28 AM

    Is there any way to check the broken links for blog which is on BlogSpot ? As I am on Blogspot and no such plugins are there :( :( (:
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  9. harshi says:
    31/01/2013 at 8:25 PM

    Thanx for this wonderful post !
    i was not really aware of this thing and the bad effects of broken links !. ! actually google analytics claime that my 300 links are broken and now im able to correct them ! thanx to you!
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  10. Sadek says:
    01/02/2013 at 2:30 PM

    I use WP Broken link checker to deal with such broken links.
    BTW: Nice design. Can you share the theme with me (IF it’s premium theme, atleast tell me the name of the theme)
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  11. Aliakbar Fakhri says:
    21/02/2013 at 8:03 PM

    Thanks for sharing these Useful website list to check broken links
    and the plugin is just Awesome
    as I am a new blogger these things will help me a lot in SEO!
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  12. Murtaza Nimuchwala says:
    25/02/2013 at 7:30 PM

    thanks for the tip to fix broken Links
    As i am a newbie Blogging field, , I was really worried how to fix broken links in WordPress.
    Thanks a lot, I have learned a lot from your Blog!!
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