Broken Links / URLs Checker

Tool Details and User Instructions

This broken link checker tool will extract all the URLs (internal & external) with image, javascript and CSS links.

Broken links are considered negative for a website. Following are some reasons of broken/dead links:

• Entered wrong URL(s) by website owners.
• The linked web page destination is removed.
• The target website does not exist or removed.
• The destination website is behind a firewall or blocked by the user software.
• Linked to a site that does not allow access from outside or behind the firewall.
• For more information click here.

Impact of Broken Links on Users

• Users visiting your website will lose interest if they encounter a broken link.
• They will spend less time on your website because they’re not getting any useful information.

Broken Link Building:

Broken link building is a white hat SEO strategy. In this technique, you find broken links on websites and notify the concerned webmasters to replace or fix the links with your relevant link. These links are very powerful to boost your site’s ranking.

How to do broken link building?

– The keywords should be relevant to your website’s niche. For example, you website is on “Inversion Tables” then you should put keyword related to health. Then find related pages in Bing, Yahoo or Google by querying like “intitle:health” etc.
– Now you will have a list of URLs. Test each URL with our link extraction tool or use free website crawler to find the broken links (if available) from those URLs and store them in an excel sheet.
– Filter out the final set of 404 pages and analyze which are relevant targets to your niche.
– Now you will have a list of strong prospects to reach out.
– Go to ahrefs.com and find out how many referring domains are there against a dead link.
– If a 404 link has more than 10 (just an example) quality referring domains pointing, take it into consideration.
– Go to internet archive and find out on which topic the dead link was.
– Create a relevant article and publish to your website.
– Now one by one pitch the websites where the broken link is. Tell them the link is broken and you have written the same article and ask them to replace that link with your link.

Usage Instructions:

Following are the steps to use Broken Links Checker.

1. Enter your URL in the text field. Please enter correct URL. If a URL starts with “www”, enter URL like “https://www.visiospark.com/“. If a URL starts without “www”, enter URL like “https://www.visiospark.com/“. Otherwise, you might get wrong results.

2. Click Submit and wait for the results. When the process is completed, results will be shown in a table.

3. If you want to save your results on your system, click Export to download results in an excel sheet.

Note: Typically “404” status code is considered as broken link. Get all HTTP status codes information here. Any problem in using this URL/link checker tool, contact us.