Do you know how many links are there on your website or blog ? How many of them are working and pointing to a live url or how many of them are pointing to a non-existent urls ? Here is a list of tools to help you find broken links or dead links from a website or url.
Why you should try this ?
Because there might be some links lying in your webpage and are taking nowhere to users. Why to keep these kind of misleading links ? Instead just find them and replace them with the working one or remove them. These tools scan your webpage and check each of the link for existence.
List of Free Online Broken or Dead Links Checker Tools
1) http://www.brokenlinkcheck.com – This is a nice tool which scans blogs or websites for dead links. It scans a large number of webpages and lists broken links. It even lists url and even shows you source code of the page where the link is available. This broken url checker tool is very helpful. This tool does a pretty good recursion so it takes time to process these urls.
2) http://validator.w3.org/checklink – Its a w3c link checker tool. This tool also gives a list of broken links. Its a pretty popular tool as its a w3c. By default it checks all the links present in the entered url, but you can set the recursion level and deep link checking by setting options.
3) http://valet.htmlhelp.com/link/ – This tool has the option to scan webpages recursively upto 2 level. I got results from this tool very quickly. It stops scanning once it reaches recursion level. But it shows list of urls to scan further.
4) http://www.iwebtool.com/broken_link_checker – This tool lists all urls present on a page and shows status of each link.
5) http://www.linktiger.com/ – To use this service you need to provide email address. Enter url and submit. It will ask you for email and password. Once the scanning is complete, it will send details to your email id. Even this tool has lot of other options but those are paid.
6) http://linkchecker.submitexpress.com/ – Even this tool lists and displays the status of links from a single page.
7) http://www.websitegoodies.com/tools/linkcheck.php – It shows the urls and their status whether thats a valid link or broken from a single page.
View Comments (8)
Broken links are really bad for SEO, if a website has so many bad links then there may be chance that it will penalized by search engines so it is necessary to remove them.
Now i would like to say thanks to you for posting an article on this topic, i was not also aware of all of them but i am going to use all of them.
thanks once again
Nice tools for check broken links on online, thanks for sharing these great tools with us. In earlier I was used Broken link checker WordPress plugin for check broken links, but it's slow down my blog. After reading this article I'm sure I going to try all the above tools.
Thanks for sharing
You have provided here many valuable informations, i will bookmark your article - i own few blogs and from time to time - i use online broken links checker, you have listed many of them here - thank you.
Lot's of nice helpful tools. Thanks Finding and fixing link problems has finally been made easy!
That is a really important tool for checking your links. It is very helpful!
very nice topic
This is pretty slick. I tried the W3C one and set it for summary only and it jut took a minute or two. I had a couple of links that redirected to https pages like YouTube, so it suggested I change them. I guess that wouldn't take too long, so I will probably do it and test them again. Thanks for the heads up.
Very good, very helping and time-saving tools and links.