Jun 7 2010
How to Check Broken Links of WordPress blogs?

This is an Internet world and everything is online now a days. Every organization and small business owners believes that internet marketing gives them more popularity and huge profits. So, everyone started having their own websites to use as a platform for advertising. So what do they do using these websites is the next question. They advertise the products using a blog post in their website. To write those blog post, WordPress came in to the picture.

Process in writing a Blog Post

  • Admin logs in to his wordpress account
  • He adds new post based on the client’s requirement
  • He, then select a keyword and links it to the client’s website
  • People who reads that blog post, clicks that link and that takes them to the client’s website

Now the thing to be noticed here is, when the admin links the keyword to his client website, two possible scenarios can happen

  • Links to the client website is successful
  • Links to the client website is Broken

If the link is successful, then there will be no problem. But, what happens if the link is broken? There comes the question How to Check Broken Links of WordPress blogs? Broken links are something which are mistakenly typed incomplete that leads to a page that do not exist and shows http 404 error.

How to Check Broken Links of WordPress blogs?

  • The first and foremost point you can see IF a page leads to a page that is not found and shows https://404 error
  • Use a plugin called Broken links Checker that can be installed in your word press blog setting, which will show you if the link is broken
  • Create a google webmaster account that will regularly monitor for the broken links
  • Online tools like W3C Link Checker, Free Link Checker, Dead link checker, 2bone link checker, link tiger etc., also answer your question “How to Check Broken Links of WordPress blogs?”
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