What is Broken Link? How to find and fix Broken Link in WordPress?:– As well as you know that broken links are bad for user experience but you don’t have any ideas that broken links can hit your WordPress SEO rankings. It’s understood that Broken Links effect negatively on our website.
So, here in this article we will show you how can you fix the Broken Links in your WordPress Website which helps to improve your user experience and website’s SEO ranking.
What is Broken Links?
A broken link is called dead link which is no longer works. It may have many reasons but there are a most common reason that when a page already deleted or moved in different address. In this case the server show 404 not found error.
On the other hand on WordPress websites, broken links are arises when your site are move in a new domain name. If you don’t redirect your deleted pages or posts then it creates this kind of problems.
In this post we will share some methods for get a easy way to find broken links in your WordPress website.
Method .1 Finding Broken Links using SEMRush
SEMRush is one of the best and most popular SEO tool in the market which helps to analyze overall SEO health of your website. It also have a tool which crawls your website to find common errors and gives a detailed SEO report to you. For that you need to follow some steps.
Firstly, you need to sign up your account on SEMRush. It have some paid plans but it also allows some free trial which crawls you.
So, when you logged in your account then you have to go on left menu and click on “ Site Audit ” button. Now click on the ‘New Site Audit’ button for add your website.
Here you can see that it will ask to enter your domain name. Now you will be asked for configure your website settings. After that select the number of pages to crawl. Click on start crawling button. This may take few minutes for crawling your WebPages which you have selected.
When it is finished then you need to click on your domain under the site audit section for view your crawling report. If you want to check Broken Links then you will need to click on Broken Link.
After that click on the export button at the top right corner of the screen and download report.
Method 2. Finding Broken Links using Ahrefs
Aherfs is one of the famous tool of all-in-one SEO tool for marketers and SEO professional. You can use this tool for keyword research, competition analysis, organic and paid keywords, keywords ranking and overall site health including broken links of your Website. For this follow our some steps:-
Firstly create your account on Aherfs account. It also have paid service but it allows you for free trial of 7 days. When you logged in your Aherfs account then you will need to be enter your domain name.
Once you enter your domain name then site explorer start crawls your website and prepare your reports. This may taken some times according to your content which you submit on your website.
Now you can see your site explorer results. After that click on the pages >> Best by Links menu and filter by 404 status.
Method 3. Finding Broken Links in WordPress using Google Search Console
Google search console is one of the best and a free tool provided by Google. You can manage site visibility in search result and also alert about errors including 404 errors which are caused by broken links.
Once you have logged in your search console account, then click on the “coverage” link from left menu. Here you will find all 404 errors. Clicking on this, it will show you all links on your website that are broken links. Now you have to need this to fix broken links on your website.
Method 4. Finding Broken Links in WordPress using Broken Link Checker
For using this method you need to install Broken Link Checker Plugin. Some people not preferred this method because it will slow down your website. This plugin checks all kind of broken links of your website including internal and external links that shows 404 errors.
You need to follow some step for using this plugin. Firstly, you need to install Broken Links Checker plugin and activate it. After activation the plugin will start their works to found broken links in your pages, posts, and comments. Now go to Tools >> Broken Links to view full report.
You have to need the sort the list to find broken links on your website. You will need to active Broken Link Checker on your website at the time of fix broken links. When you fixed it then you will deactivate broken link checker because it will slow down your server.
How to Fix Broken Links in WordPress
I hope you learn how to find broken links from our website in our four methods we will share. Now it’s time to learn how to fix broken links in WordPress.
You can redirect your broken link to another page. It is the best way to fix the broken links. Follow some steps to learn this.
First, you have to need install Redirection Plugin and activate it. After activation, you need to visit Tools >> Redirection page to setup. Now you have to need to add old broken link in the “Source URL” field and the new URL enter in the ‘Target URL’ field.
After that, click on the “add redirect” button and save you changes.
Now you can check your broken link, and you will be redirect to the other pages. You can repeat this process and fix your broken link issues of your website.