I have an old blog with a lot of posts and links to places that don’t exist anymore, which creates a 404 error. I have been using the Broken Link Checker plugin to help me find these broken links.
Broken links are bad for SEO and you might inadvertently be linking to bad neighbourhoods if those old sites have been bought and redirected.
Broken Link Checker keeps a running list of all
the broken links found in your posts, pages, blogroll, comments, and
custom fields. It also allows you to easily manage those links from
one screen within the WordPress admin.
The plugin has many more features:
- Monitor links in your posts, pages, the blogroll, and custom fields
- Detects links that don’t work and missing images
- Dashboard updates for broken links
- Redirected link detection
- Changes appearance of broken links in posts; the default is to set the text decoration to strike through
- New or editted posts are checked immediately
- Managed through the WordPress Admin under the Tools -> Broken Links
- Links can be removed or changed through the plugin’s page, without manually editing each post
In order to fix these broken links, you can go into each individual post and replace the broken links with new urls that work. Alternatively, you can use the redirection plugin.
You can find out where your broken links are from your Google Webmasters account too.
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