Check For Broken Links - WordPress Tips, Tricks Every Serious Blogger Must Know
Check For Broken Links
Broken links can hurt your website’s SEO (Google sees them as neglectful), besides the fact that they are a negative user experience. To ensure that you’re always free of broken links, you can use the plugin called Broken Link Checker.
Simply install and activate the plugin. It will immediately begin crawling your site looking for links to monitor.
If any link, be it external or internal, becomes broken, it will notify you and then allows you to easily edit or remove the said broken link right within the plugin’s dashboard.
The plugin is highly configurable. You can select how often the crawler checks for broken links, use additional APIs for better detection, or check not only for normal links but also for plaintext links or even links within CSS stylesheets.