Broken link checker

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by journeyoftheanimals, Dec 8, 2012.

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    I have a website that is based on wordpress and I recently found out I have quite few broken links on my site. I think many of these are links to other sites from mine. I want to try to find an easy to understand broken link checker so I can start removing them. It does not matter to me much what kind of program it is as long as it works. It can be a plugin, stand alone program or whatever. Thank you in advance for the help with this.
     
    journeyoftheanimals, Dec 8, 2012 IP
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    Rukbat Well-Known Member

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    I have been using broken link checker for WordPress, for some time now and find it works really well. The plug-in is very straightforward to use and shows in your back-office when you have a broken link and also emails you, hope this helps!
     
    royswebservices, Dec 10, 2012 IP
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    You can check your broken link at validator.w3.org/checklink
     
    N Solanki, Dec 12, 2012 IP
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    you can try brokenlinkbuilding and brokenlinkindex, also webmaster can help you to identify broken links
     
    chandler.bryson, Dec 12, 2012 IP
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    For lazy webmasters, plugigng your website into Google's webmaster tools will help you do this and even receive notifications when new site related error messages pop up... I think I am right about the notifications... I don't have them turned on myself but I do use the WMT service and find it helpful.
     
    adbox, Dec 12, 2012 IP
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    If you're using WordPress then go ahead and use Broken Links Checker plugin. It just works out of the box + checks for broken links periodically to let you fix them when needed.
    No need for any other tool.
     
    tushonline, Dec 14, 2012 IP
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    Agree with you. WordPress broken link checker plugin works perfectly.
     
    emdadblog, Dec 14, 2012 IP