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11 Websites to Check Broken Links Online

by Sahil Umatia

Broken LinksA broken link is a link that doesn’t work, which often results in an 404 error page. A broken link happens when the link points to a web page that has been deleted or moved. In short, a link that doesn’t work any more is called as a broken link.

And certainly a broken link would make a bad impression on a visitor or a reader. This would also affect your search engine ranking, which depends on the quality of internal and external links. That’s why it’s very important to find such links and fix them as soon as possible. In this post I will share some websites which will help you to do so.

1. Link Valet Online

Link Valet OnlineThis website allows you to check broken links of a website and highlight links which are modified from a per-defined date. You can generate full or summary report. The report can also be mailed if you’re a subscriber.

 

2. W3C Link Checker

W3C Link CheckerEnter the full URL of any web page that you want to check for broken links on the form below. A full scan of all links found on the URL page you enter below will be made and any broken links will be listed.

 

 

3. iWebTool Broken Link Checker

iWebTool Broken Link CheckeriWebTool Broken Link Checker will check all the links on a web page of the URL you enter and show you if there are any broken links. Clicking on any link, you will see a new check report of its web page.

 

 

4. AddMe Broken Link Checker

AddMe Broken Link CheckerHere you need to give them your email address and categories of your website. Enter your URL and other necessary details, they will analyze your website for broken links and then send you a link for the completed report.

 

 

5. LinkTiger

LinkTigerLinkTiger is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application that checks, diagnose and fix any broken links. You need to give your email address to get report about your broken links.

 

 

6. Perfect Optimization – Site Link Analyzer

Perfect Optimization – Site Link AnalyzerThis tool will check your web page for broken links / objects and make sure your web site is 100% perfect and spider friendly. It will check only links and objects from the given URL.

 

 

7. 2bone Link Checker

2bone Link CheckerThis link checker will only test regular HTML links. There are 2 different options: Express lane and ‘I can wait’ service. The Express lane will give faster result with 10 links being examine per page while the other mode will take some time to display all links all at once.

 

 

8. Online Broken Link Checker

Online Broken Link CheckerThis free online Checker / Validator not just tells you which of your hyperlinks are dead but it will also show to your where exactly those stale references locate in your HTML code!

 

 

9. Submit Express

Submit ExpressEnter your web page URL, then SubmitExpress Link Checker will show you if those links on the web page are good or broken.

 

 

10. Website Goodies

Website GoodiesWebsite Goodies is a free tool for webmasters to scan your website and identifies broken or dead links. There are many other tools which can be useful for your website.

 

 

11. IT-India Broken Link Checker

IT-India Broken Link CheckerIt-India – Broken Link Checker is a great seo tool for finding out broken or dead links. There are many other tools which can be useful for your website.

 

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Sahil is the founder and editor of iBlognet. He is a freelance writer on topics related to Website Optimization (SEO), Blogging, and Tech. He also specializes in SEO, HTML, CSS and Photoshop. Sahil has written 277 fantastic article(s) on iBlognet.


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1 Paul Salmon

That is a great list of link checkers. I didn’t know there were so many.

Currently I use a WordPress plugin that will help check backlinks on my blog. Unfortunately, it won’t check all the links, which is where the above sites may help.
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2 Nick

Hi there,

Missed off the one I am currently building :)
Mine gives you a little bit more information, not only will it find broken links but you can see any nofollow, blocked by robots, search by anchor text and all sorts.

Worth a look, and it’s free!
sitecrawl.net

Cheers
Nick

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3 JualDompet

so, this web give services to check inner links ? ehm… trying… i hope no broken link found on my web :)

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4 Kevin Linkie

Thanks for this list. I was using a few different services but alot of these are new to me.

Will have to check some of them out. :)
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5 Shathyan Raja from Samsung Galaxy

Hi,

Nice. Thanks for sharing.

I’m new to blogging and I found out my blog has some broken links in it using the tools mentioned above.

Now my question is what should I do with it ? How to make it perfect and correct ?
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6 Julia Smith

Thanks for sharing these websites. Other wise i have to check my links one by one.

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7 Jim Dreesen

Thank you very much for this lists of websites to check on broken links. It must have been hard to find this websites. I will use these sites and check on my links
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8 Evan

Hi! I’m new to your blog. Like a lot. As for the post – very useful. I had an experience with LinkTiger, tell the truth i was not very satisfied with it. Have you tried all of these checkers? Are they all reliable? Thanks
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9 Timon Weller

Hey Sahil,
Great list, i think i will use these in future rather than my own server. ( wordpress plugin )

There is a plugin called broken link checker for wordpress as well however it can be very server intensive.. I did a check on my site after not doing a check for ages and there was over 400 broken links in comments alone..

Wish I had checked it more regularly..

Regards,
Timon
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10 Muhammad Reaz

really appreciate. Thanks a lot for share those link for check website.
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11 Lei Broch

I’m glad that I’ve stumbled on this post. I am really planning to check my site for broken links.
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12 Lee

Hi
I have never checked for broken links to my site. Hadn’t even checked anyhting apart from on google webmaster tools. So will be interesting to look at something else and possibly get a different angle on things.

Great info thanks lee

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13 Wilma

I use brokenlinkcheck (no. 8) frequently. The tool of the site works great by highlighting the broken link for every webpage. Thanks for sharing the broken link services list. Maybe I’ll try W3c and iwebtool.
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14 Atif Imran

I agree with you , What you have mentioned , Many bloggers and webmaster does not care about . All these websites are good but sorry to say that I don’t like iWebTool . But LinkTiger is awesome . I have liked it .
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