[FAQ]

Hello,

I’m managing a website for a client, and one of their pages is a very long blog post with maybe 50+ links to other articles and resources. The article is quite old already.

I read that broken links are bad for the user and for SEO. I’m worried some of the external sites we linked to don’t exist anymore. How do I check all of them without clicking each one manually? That will take so much time!

Is there an easy way or a free tool that can just scan one specific web page and tell me which links are broken? I don’t want to check the whole website, just this one long page for now.

Thank you!

[Jeff Bullas]

Good on you for being proactive about this; broken links are a silent killer of user trust and website authority.

Short Answer: The most efficient way to find broken links on a single web page is to use a free online tool or a browser extension specifically designed for link checking.

These tools automate the tedious process of manually clicking every link, saving you a massive amount of time.

You have a couple of excellent, non-technical options for checking the text links on that page. First, you can use a free online broken link checker; these are websites where you simply paste the URL of your web page, and their server will crawl it and provide a report of any dead links it finds. Second, and often more convenient, is to install a browser extension like ‘Broken Link Checker’ for Chrome; with this method, you navigate to your web page, click the extension’s button, and it will scan all the text links in real-time, often highlighting the broken ones directly on the page for you. Making this check a regular part of your content maintenance routine is a simple way to preserve the quality and integrity of your text content over time.

Cheers,
Jeff

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