Broken links or dead links are very common on websites. They divert visitors to a link that no longer exists. Such links will create a negative impact on your readers. In other words, it will affect your credibility and website SEO.
If users get broken links again and again on your site, Google may degrade your search engine ranking. We should avoid that bad situation, anyway. Right?
According to Google, webmasters need to scan their site at frequent intervals for broken links in order to avoid the penalty. But we know that it’s not practical.
The job is easier for WordPress users as they can make use of dedicated plugins to find those links automatically. Others should go with online broken link finder tools for the purpose.
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Best Broken link Checker Tools (Free & Paid)
Today, we’re going to list the 10 best broken link checker plugins and tools to detect and fix broken links on your website (both WordPress and non-WordPress).
1. Broken Link Check
Broken Link Check is a free online tool to find broken links on your site. It is easy to use. Just visit the page from this link and enter your website URL in the box for a free checkup.
Wait for a couple of minutes to finish the scan. It depends on the size of your blog. Finally, it will deliver the list of your broken links along with the error code and where they found.
2. Broken Link Checker
Broken Link Checker is a popular plugin for WordPress users. It will monitor your blog on a real-time basis and let you know if any dead link found.
This kind of notification, you will get in such a situation.
You can view them anytime by going to Tools > Broken Links.
- Edit URL – Edit or replace the URL right from the plugin screen
- Unlink – Removes the link, but anchor text will remain
- Not broken – If you are very much confident about the link, mark it as not broken and working well.
- Dismiss – Hide the link from the broken link section. You won’t be reported again unless its status changes. It is still available under the Dismissed tab.
- Recheck – Ask the plugin to recheck the same
Instead of editing the link URL, you can edit the entire post as well. The post name along with Edit link will be displayed right end of the screen. Open the post to edit and customize it.
Other main advantages of Broken Link Checker plugin:
- It will check links in posts, pages, comments, contact form, and custom fields
- Link types may be HTML, HTML images, plain text URLs and embedded videos
- It will suggest alternatives to broken links
- Prevents search engines from following dead links
3. Link Checker
Link Checker is another broken link checker plugin for WordPress. We do not recommend using WordPress broken link checker plugins as it creates a significant load on your server and slows down the website. But Link Checker uses an external service to find broken links. So you can use it safely without affecting website performance and traffic.
Link Checker is simple and easy to use. It can detect dead links in your web pages, images, and also in YouTube embedded videos.
4. Video Link Checker
Video Link Checker is another broken link checker plugin from CodeCanyon. As the name indicates, it can validate and find broken videos on your website. It supports leading video hosting and sharing platforms like YouTube, Dailymotion, Soundcloud, Hulu, Vimeo, Google Drive, and many others.
The plugin runs in the background and informs you if any video is removed from the source or blocked in your target region for whatever reason. It scans your website automatically for broken video links. But you can also run manual scans to verify links by post types, post status, embedded URLs, and others.
5. Google Webmaster Account
Google webmaster account offers several options to manage and monitor a website. We all know about its URL submission feature. But how many of us are regularly visiting Crawl errors and internal links sections of the tool?
Google continuously monitors your site and lets you know if any error found on URLs. The information will contain the date when the broken link first detected, last found and source posts. You can make changes in the relevant posts accordingly.
6. W3C Link Checker—Most recommended link checking tool from World Wide Web Consortium
7. Dead link checker—A simple online tool to check dead links on single or even multiple websites at the same time
8. Broken Link Checker—A basic tool that scans any website for links
9. Dr. Link Check—A speedy online scanner to check broken internal and external links with a maximum 1000 limits per website
10. Check My Links—A Google Chrome extension to scan a web page for dead links. Ideal for designers, developers, and content editors.
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Hi Manoj!
Great Post you have up here, really broken links generally are bad for UI.
I expected you to mention Ahrefs tool it’s one I use regularly and it works great
Hi Prosper,
Thanks a lot for your feedback. If frankly say, I am not used Ahrefs till the date. I shall check & write a detailed post on it shortly.
Keep in touch.
Hi Manoj!
Great Post you have up here, really broken links generally are bad for UI.
I expected you to mention Ahrefs tool it’s one I use regularly and it works great
Hi Prosper,
Thanks a lot for your feedback. If frankly say, I am not used Ahrefs till the date. I shall check & write a detailed post on it shortly.
Keep in touch.
Hi Manoj!
Great Post you have up here, really broken links generally are bad for UI.
I expected you to mention the great tools . I use regularly and it works great.
keep your good blogging. and sharing these informative post with us. I still waiting for your next blogging. thanks for sharing