How To Find And Fix Broken Links On WordPress Blog
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How will you feel when a visitor click on a link to your site and redirected to a page which shows an error of 404?
You will probably feel disappointed and your visitor will not visit your site again. Moreover, it created bad user-experience. If you are going through the same problem then it must be annoying for you because it creates the bad user experience. But don’t worry it is a common problem and you can fix it very easily.
What is a broken link?
Broken links are also known as Dead links. Whenever you redirected to a page which shows a message of ‘This page is not found, 404 error’ that is a broken link. It simply means the page you are looking for is not available. However, Broken link can be anywhere in your site. Besides, It can be internal links or external link in the blog post.
Why links got broken?
However, there can be many reasons for broken links such as firewall settings, site hacked, deleted domain or hosting problem. Also, You do not have control over it.
What are the effects of broken links on the site?
Broken links have very bad effect on your visitors. For an instance, if your visitor clicks on the link to your post and they found a dead link. However, there may be a chance that you will lose your visitor forever because of the bad user-experience. Apart from that, it greatly affects the SEO of your site.
Do you know broken links effects SEO of your site?
Above all, If your site containing too many broken links, then your site may get low ranking in search engine results. Also, Google will not give high ranking to those sites which contain broken links. So, I will recommend you analyze your site on regular basis to check if it contains any broken links.
Are you wondering how to check if your site contains broken links and how you can fix those broken links?
Don’t worry. Today this post is about How to Find and Fix Broken Links on WordPress Blog.
So let’s get started.
How to Find and Fix Broken Links on WordPress Blog
There are many ways to Find and Fix Broken Links on WordPress. However, you can do this by using WordPress plugin.
Broken Link Checker is one of the plugins of WordPress which can be used to Find and Fix Broken Links on WordPress. Moreover, It is one of the popular plugins of WordPress which is freely available. Additionally, this plugin is installed by more than 400,000 people.
You have to install and activate Broken Link Checker plugin to Find and Fix Broken Links on WordPress.
Follow the steps given below in order to Find and Fix Broken Links on WordPress:
- Login to your WordPress Dashboard. Click on the Plugin tab and then select ‘Add New’. (Plugin > Add New)
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- On next screen, Search for Broken Link Checker then click on install plugin button.
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- Once it gets installed, activate it.
- Check this plugin in the WordPress ‘Settings’.
- Now, click on the ‘Link Checker’ plugin (Setting > Link Checker). Here you will see Broken Link Checker Options on the screen.
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- In next step, Click on the tab ‘Look for Links in’. Here select the options such as page, posts, comments, affiliate links where you want to find the broken links.
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- After that, Click on the ‘Save Changes’ to save the settings.
- Next, Click on the ‘General’ tab. Also, You can see broken link in the status option.
- Click on the links shown in status option. It will display a list of broken links where you can see all dead links of your site.
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In this way, you can check dead links of your site. Now, we will see how these links can be fixed. Let’s discuss how to fix broken links.
How to fix broken links on WordPress
Once you have found the broken links of your site, you definitely want to fix it. Now, Click on the broken link URL which you have found earlier.
Here, You will see a number of options such as Edit URL, Unlink, Not Broken, Dismiss and Recheck when you will move the mouse on the broken link.
Let’s discuss these options one by one.
- Edit URL – You can enter correct URL of a dead link here to fix it.
- Unlink – You can remove the link by clicking it.
- Not Broken – If a link is not broken, you can click on the Not Broken
- Dismiss – To hide the link from the broken list, you can click on this.
- Recheck – If you think, the link URL is correct then you can try it once again by rechecking it.
In this way, you can Find and Fix Broken Links on WordPress with Broken Line Checker. Apart from this, if you want to manually Find and Fix Broken Links on WordPress, you can also do that by using some online tools.
Let’s see which tools can be used to Find and Fix Broken Links on the WordPress site.
How to Find and Fix Broken Links on WordPress without plugin
There are many free broken link checker tools available online to Find and Fix Broken Links on WordPress.
Some popular Broken Link Checkers Tools are given below:
If you want to Find and Fix Broken Links on WordPress manually, then I will recommend you use these tools. You just have to enter the URL address of your blog or site to find the dead links of your site. Also, You can manually edit the URL of broken links.
You can choose either of methods to Find and Fix Broken Links on WordPress blog.
Final Words
I hope now you can easily Find and Fix Broken Links on WordPress blog. Apart from it, I will recommend you analyze your site once in a month to check if your blog is containing any dead link. Because dead links leave bad impact on your site and also creates the bad user experience. So, try any method according to your choice and Share your experience us. Besides, if you have any query regarding this post, feel free to ask in the comment section.
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Yasir Khan
Posted at 11:53h, 12 Juneand how check broken link in HTML website ?
i tried google webmaster but nothing happend 🙁
Raman Arora
Posted at 19:03h, 12 JuneDear Yasir Khan!
There are various sites to check broken links.. try: Smallseotools.com
Yasir Khan
Posted at 15:45h, 13 Junei tried and found 3 Broken Links :/
Thanks raman 🙂