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Check for Broken Links

Dead hyperlinks on websites are not just annoying, their existence may impact your site in several ways

Because of broken or links to old urls a website may:

  • Lose some of the existing visitors (current users will sooner or later get frustrated enough to never come back).
  • Damage your reputation online (most of online visitors consider stale hyperlinks a demonstration of lack of professionalism).
  • Have negative impact on your website's ratings with major Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing etc.

All these present issues that we would like you to avoid.

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Free Online Link Checker

Here are some online link checkers to try:

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Enable SEO Bundle

The Web Express SEO Bundle will also check links on your site. Use the SEO Dashboard - SEO checklist link checker feature.

If errors are found, click Link Checker to go to an administration page to edit the broken links.