We will get into these practices in a later post, but they include tactics like creating a uniform policy for when naming URLs, removing old content, and creating new drafts of pages. By initiating good web practices, you can prevent broken links on your own website. Unlike with external links, you have complete control over internal links. This makes it really easy to stay on top of broken links so you can fix them before they hurt user experience and rankings. The beauty of this tool is that it scans your website every week for broken links (and other errors) and sends a report to your inbox. Of course, we recommend using the Monsido Quality Assurance tool for finding broken links.
Unless you want to hire a full-time broken link checker, we’d recommend getting a tool to automate the job. But, considering how quickly the internet changes, you’d have to start the process all over again right away to stay on top of broken links. So how do you find broken external links? You could spend all week (or month) going through every single page on your website and clicking every link to make sure it works. Again, this will not help you track broken external links. Another option is to set up a custom filter on your Google Analytics account for your 404 Error page so you can track how many hits it gets. This will not find broken links to external pages though. Under the “Crawl Errors,” you will be able to find broken links on your website. There are numerous different ways to find broken links on your website. To fix broken links, you’ve got to find them first.
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