SEO: Indentifying Broken Links in Your Website

A broken link (also known as deal link or dangling link) in a website is a link that doesn't work anymore, because they link to a page or a site that do not exist anymore. It is a dead end for a customer and a search engine. These links can drive your potential customers away and prevent search engines from properly indexing your website. It is a good idea to regularly check all the links on your website to make sure that they are all working.

Google provides a Google webmaster tools to help user identify the broken links. For more information on how to setup and use the Google webmaster tool to check the broken link, visit http://sixrevisions.com/website-management/find-remove-broken-links/

If you don’t want to create an account on Google, then there are several free online tools available to check for broken links on your website. Following is a list of few sites that provide free tools to generate the list of broken link on a site:

• http://seotradenews.com/seo-tools/broken-link-checker/
• http://linkchecker.submitexpress.com/
• http://www.rankquest.com/tools/Link-Checker.php
• http://www.seovalley.com/seo-tools/broken-links-checker/  
• http://www.optimization.ca/SEO-Tool/brokenlink.html
• http://www.searchengineoptimising.com/find-broken-links-with-link-checker

To use the tools listed above, click on any one of the links and enter the URL for your website or webpage. The tools will provide you with a list of all the broken link(s) on the submitted page. Once you have the list of broken link, fix the links on that page.

It is a good idea to regularly check for broken links on your website and fix them immediately to ensure continuous availability of your content in order to maintain your customer base and to improve your website ranking.
 

Vazi Okhandiar

Director

NR Computer Learning center

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