Find Broken Links on Your Blog

Broken Links : If a link is deleted or changed after being created on a blog/website, clicking on the existing link will result in a 404 error page. These 404 error page links are known as broken links or dead links.

Problem with Broken links :

Broken links will not affect search engine rankings, but they may create problems for your blog visitors. Broken links can create a bad user experience. When a visitor clicks on a link or page of your blog and it shows a 404 error page, your blog visitor may be disappointed. Do not disappoint your blog readers because if they get disappointed, they may not return to your blog again. Therefore, try to find broken links on your blog and fix them as soon as possible to ensure a good user experience.

The best solutions for broken links are -

• Finding the broken links on your blog and removing those links from your blog.
• Preventing search engines from following broken links on your blog.
• Redirecting broken pages to the home page using 404 error redirection.

These three solutions are the best ways to fix broken links on a blog. We have already discussed redirecting from a page not found error page to the home page of your blog. To fix the broken links of your Blogger blog, you first need to find them. In this post, we will discuss how to find broken links on your Blogger blog, and later we will discuss how to fix them.

How to find broken links on your Blogger blog :

Broken links are generally created if we change the Permalink structure of a blog or by deleting unwanted posts on your blog. You can find broken links using broken link checker tools and by using webmaster tools (now called Google Search Console). One of the best ways to find broken links on your Blogger blog is by using Google Search Console. If you don't have a Google Search Console account, first create one and add your blog. We have already discussed how to use Google Search Console and how to submit a sitemap to Google Search Console.

Follow below steps to find out broken links on your blog

Step 1 : Sign in to Google Webmaster Tool( Google Search Console).

Step 2 : Select your blog in the webmaster tool.

Step 3 : On the left side, click on Crawl and click on Crawl Errors.

Step 4 :  Next click on Not found box under URL Errors.

Step 5 : Now it will list all broken links of your Blogger blog.

Like this, you can find out broken links on your Blogger blog using Google Search Console. You can also check for broken links using broken link checker tools.

List of tools to check for broken links on your blog.

• Brokenlinkcheck
• Linktiger