Free Web Page Broken Link Checker
Use the Broken Link Checker below to find and test all of the links on any web page. This tool will find all of the links on the webpage/url you enter in the textbox below.
- Enter the URL/web address of the web page you wish to check to see if there are any broken links, in the textbox below.
- Make sure the url starts with either http:// or https://
- Click the button with the text
CHECK FOR BROKEN LINKS.
- This broken link checking tool is asynchronious which means results of the urls being tested will be displayed below as the test is occuring, instead of having to wait for the entire test to complete to see the results.
This tool checks ALL links on a webpage so if the same link is on the webpage more than once, this will account for duplicates in the broken link checker output below.
The SEO Impact of Broken Links on Web Pages
The big search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing) have one major goal in mind which is to provide its users with websites that contain the exact information they are looking for. A web page with broken links is not a positive experience for the visitor. I am sure you have had the experience of being all excited about the promise of a web page having exactly what you want and when you click on the link to go to the page you get the page not found error.
If a website is littered with broken links, the search engines are going to push your search engine placement down because of this. This is why it is extremely important that every time you create a new web page or blog post that as soon as you post it you check it for any broken links and fix them right away.
Reasons for Broken Links on Web Pages
The internet rapidly changes on a daily basis. A website that was up yesterday may have expired and is down. Anyone linking to the site would have a broken link on their web page. Broken links could also be caused by:
- The person who made the webpage may have incorrectly entered the wrong url for the intended web page he is linking to.
- As previously mentioned, the website or webpage, which was once up, is no longer there.
- The page has been moved to a different location on the web server making the original link no longer valid.
- For some reason access to the web page is blocked, perhaps because of firewall.
