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Broken Link Finder
Find and fix broken links on your site
What it does
Broken Link Finder crawls your website and identifies all broken internal and external links (404s, 5xx errors, redirects). Get a prioritized list sorted by impact with fix suggestions.
The Problem
Broken links hurt user experience and SEO.
- No overview of broken links across your site
- Manual checking is impossible at scale
- Broken links waste link equity
The Solution
Automated crawling finds all broken links.
- Crawl up to 500 pages
- Check both internal and external links
- Prioritized by SEO impact
Features
- Full Crawl: Crawl up to 500 pages and check every link.
- Error Classification: 404, 5xx, timeout, and redirect chain detection.
- Impact Scoring: Prioritize fixes by SEO impact.
- Fix Suggestions: AI suggests replacement URLs for broken links.
How it works
- Paste the links you want assessed — a URL list, the 404 report from Search Console or the server log, or the HTML from a page
- Get a prioritized list with source page, anchor text, likely cause and suggested redirect target
- Implement the redirects and fix the links in your content — use the generated redirect file or do it manually
Use cases
- SEO teams doing technical audits — broken links are among the most common technical problems and the easiest to fix
- Web editors maintaining large content sites — articles with broken links lose credibility and SEO value over time
- Developers who have migrated a website or changed URL structure — turn the old URL list into a set of redirects
Why use Broken Link Finder?
Broken links are low-hanging fruit in SEO. Fixing them is among the simplest technical actions you can take. What stops people is rarely the fix itself — it's getting from a raw 404 list to an order of priority and a set of redirect targets. That is the work this tool does.
Link authority is valuable. When external sites link to a dead page on your site, the authority is lost. Setting up redirects from dead URLs to relevant live pages preserves it — and picking the right target page is the time-consuming part, not writing the redirect rule.
Prevention beats firefighting. The tool does not monitor your site, but it gives you a routine you can follow: where to pull the 404s from, how often it is worth looking, and what to do with the findings. That matters most after content updates, URL changes and migrations — where broken links tend to appear in large numbers at once.
FAQ
- How many pages are crawled?
- Up to 500 pages per scan.
- What does it cost?
- 15 credits per scan.
- How many links can be assessed at once?
- It depends on how much text you paste in a single run. A few hundred links work fine in one pass — for longer lists, split them up. The tool does not crawl the website, it assesses what you paste.
- Does the tool check whether the links are actually dead?
- No. The tool makes no HTTP requests and cannot confirm status codes on its own. The statuses have to come from you — from Search Console, the server log or a crawler. The tool takes over from there: prioritizing, grouping by cause, suggesting redirect targets and setting up the redirect file.
- How do I find the broken links in the first place?
- Search Console shows the 404s Google has hit, the server log shows the ones users hit, and a crawler like Screaming Frog or Sitebulb covers the rest. The tool gives you the method for this, then does the prioritization and redirect suggestions on the material you extract.
- Can I export the results?
- Yes. The result can be copied or downloaded, and the redirect suggestions can be formatted as htaccess, Vercel or Netlify rules. Always review the rules before putting them into production — the suggestions are based on URL structure and similarity, not on verified target pages.
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