Broken Link Checker – Fix Broken Link in Blogs

Posted on January 19, 2010
Filed Under SEO, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins

In the internet world, or in the world of websites and blogging a broken link will cause a broken search engine ranking, that is, your website or blog will not rank good… and no webmasters want that.

W3.org has a great tool to check for broken link in your website. I recommend it for everyone to use. But if you’re using self-hosted WordPress blogs, there is this plugin that does the same as w3′s tool but better. The plugin is called “Broken Link Checker” by Janis Elsts.

Here are the key features of that amazing plugin:

• Monitors links in your posts, pages, the blogroll, and custom fields (optional).
• Detects links that don’t work and missing images.
• Notifies you on the Dashboard if any are found.
• Also detects redirected links.
• Makes broken links display differently in posts (optional).
• Link checking intervals can be configured.New/modified posts are checked ASAP.
• You view broken links, redirects, and a complete list of links used on your site, in the Tools -> Broken Links tab.
• Searching and filtering links by URL, anchor text and so on is also possible.
• Each link can be edited or unlinked directly via the plugin’s page, without manually editing each post.

Here is a screen capture of the Broken Link Checker tool in action:

As you can see from the picture above,there are 290 broken links (which is currently displayed), 455 redirects and the total number of links.

From the “Source” column, you can easily ‘edit’, ‘delete’ or ‘view’ the blog post. That is, if you want to correct the URL of the broken link, you can simply click on ‘edit’ and that’s it. Or if you wish, you can also easily unlink broken link by clicking the ‘unlink’ in the URL column. That easy and that is a big convenience compared to the w3 tool which only displays the URL of the broken link.

You can download the plugin here or you can directly install it from Dashboard in the Plugin section by clicking ‘Install Plugin‘.

If you already installed and been using it, how’s your experience with it? Enjoy!

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