How to Identify and Fix Broken Links on Your Website

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How to Identify and Fix Broken Links on Your Website

Having broken links on your website provides a negative experience for visitors and your SEO efforts. Learning how to fix broken links is essential to improve your SEO efforts,and provide a good user experience.

Tips to Fix Broken Links on Your Website

Broken links are not good for any website, so it is important to be able to identify and fix any broken links to improve user experience and your SEO efforts. 

We recommend using a web-based SEO audit tool to find and fix broken links on your website. The most popular web-based tool in Ahrefs and Google Search Console. These are powerful tools that scan your website for errors.

How to Identify and Fix Broken Links on Your Website
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Ahrefs Audit Tool

This is an easy tool to use and highly effective. You set up a new project, put in your website address and scan your site. It is very easy to use. This can take around twenty minutes or more, depending on the size of your website. 

Once the scan has completed, head to the reports section where you will find a list of the 404 errors on your website. This enables you to see all the broken links, along with the internal pages they appear on. In order to fix the issues, you can update the broken links with the new and correct links.

Ahrefs Site Explorer

Your first step is to fix any internal links on your site using Ahrefs Audit tool, you can then use Ahrefs Site Explorer to fix any outgoing links. Remember high quality outgoing links are important to your SEO, ensuring a great user experience (UX). Ahrefs Site Explorer is easy to use and you your website URL into the web-based tool and choose the outgoing links report and then click on broken links. 

Google Search Console

This is a very helpful tool provided by Google to monitor and maintain your website is Google Search Results. You will need to verify your site with Google Search Console before you begin. This tool provides Crawl Errors reporting that enables you to identify pages that are returned with a 404 error, providing you with the opportunity to identify and fix them.

Online Broken Link Checker Tools

This can be used for smaller websites to find broken links. This is a free tool that allows you to check your pages for free. One of our recommendations would be brokenlinkcheck.com. It's also very easy to use, simply head to the site, add your URL and click on the “Find Broken Links” tab. 

Fix Broken Links on Your Website

Having broken links can have a negative impact on user experience and your SEO success. You want to regularly monitor your website for broken links and fix them as soon as possible. The best options are listed above giving you the opportunity to identify and then fix the broken links. To fix broken links, you can:

Conclusion

If you want to provide your website visitors with a great user experience (UX) or you want to improve your SEO efforts, then you need to periodically check from broken links, fixing them accordingly. Are you struggling with broken links on your website and need help removing or fixing them? Get in touch with the Genie Crawl team today.

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