15 Helpful Web Based Broken Link Checkers

Aug 17th, 09 by Dicky | SEO / Tools

Broken link, or dead link is a link that point to an address that is unable to reach. If your blog or website has many broken links, then it may give a very bad impression for your readers and visitors. Furthermore, broken links will also affect your SEO ranking. It is because Google PR will directly affected by the quality of your internal and external links.

In my previous post about WordPress SEO plugins, i had shared about Broken Link Checker, which is a WordPress plugin that able to check your articles for broken links. However, if you are not WordPress users, then you may not able to use this plugin.

So, i am going to share 15 helpful web based broken links checkers that able to use by everyone. These online tools able to check broken links without install any software or plugin.

1. W3C Link Checker

This Link Checker looks for issues in links, anchors and referenced objects in a Web page, or recursively on a whole Web site.
W3C Link Checker

2. Link Validation Spider

Simply enter your blog or website URL in the textbox and the spider will then go to your website to read and check for broken links. This spider doesn’t crawl links inside frames or Javascript or flash.
Link Validation Spider

3. Broken Link Checker from iWebTool

This is a simple and easy to use broken link checker from iWebTool. There is a simple tutorial on how to use this tool. iWebTool has a lot of tools for webmasters, including some SEO tools which i think worth a look if you have time.

4. Broken Link Checker from AddMe.com

In order to use this service, you need to provide them your email address and categories of your website. Enter your URL and other necessary details, they will analyze your website for broken links and then send you a link for the completed report.
Broken Link Check from AddMe.com

5. LinkTiger

LinkTiger provides advanced link checking features such as email you when the broken links are found and has a dashboard with interactive interface. It manages to scan PDF, CSS, Flash and MS Office files for broken links too.

6. 2bone Link Checker

This link checker will only test regular HTML links. There are 2 different modes for you to choose: Express lane and ‘I can wait’ service. The Express lane will give faster result with 10 links being examine per page while the other mode will display all links all at once, with a longer waiting period.
2bone Link Checker

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These are the extra broken link checkers that i found. In most cases, you won’t need all of them. But these alternative link checkers will be useful when the link checkers that i mention above are down or unavailable.

7. Link Checker from SubmitExpress

8. Link Checker :: Webmaster Toolkit

9. Website Goodies – Check Broken Links

10. IT-India.com’s Broken Link Checker

11. CreatingOnline.com’s Broken Link Checker

12. Site Link Analyzer

13. dead-link-checker.com

14. Direct To India’s Link Checker

15. Dead Link Checker

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Very useful, thanks! This one goes in my list of maintenance tools.
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Nice. Very helpfull. Thx.
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You should put this in that list: http://thedemos.insanityville.com/simpleLinkChecker/

Nice list nonetheless.
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Thanks for this useful links. Thanks a ton.
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Ah the sweet irony… the W3C validator is 404ing…
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Thanks for the info. I had several broken links and didn’t realize it.
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Thanks for this useful links. Thanks alot
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The information is really helpful. Actually I rarely check the links with all my websites.
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great, i use “Link tiger” to check my website’s broken link. it is working properly. thank you very much for sharing these helpful broken link checker
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You can add one more cool online tool to your list: http://www.BrokenLinkCheck.com/

The good thing about it that it’s able to point at exact HTML tag containing broken link.
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Thanks, very useful tool, showed up some dead links on my site I wasn’t aware of.
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Very good list.After seeing ur list, I have checked my site after a long time.
Nice.
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I wasn’t taking serious broken links but now I know how important is this factor. It is harming your visitors as well as your rankings in search engines.
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we are so happy to put link in your site.
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Nice tools for checking the links working or not. Can you provide me any free tool for fully website analyzer.
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I know we have tons of broken links this site is +100,000 pages deep. w3c link validator works great, but the recursion only goes 150 pages deep. Still you can opt for nice clean output which makes working with it easy.

Besides, why would I want to work on more than 150 pages at one time?
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Thanks you so much for this list of tools. The tools you have suggested are easy to use and have saved me loads of time. It makes it easy for me to concentrate on all the other jobs I need to get finished!
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Thanks for the list, I would use them for my wordpress blog
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This is useful! thanks for all of this. Broken Link Checker is the best so far.
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broken links are bad for SEO, thanks for the tools its very useful

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yeah… i agree…google webmaster is a goos tools too to check any error links in our site

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider blows these all out of the water now! It is a simple tool that is by far the best nowadays
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Thanks for sharing your info. I really appreciate your efforts and I will be waiting for your further write ups thanks once again.
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15 Helpful Web Based Broken Link Checkers

1. W3C Link Checker

2. Link Validation Spider

3. Broken Link Checker from iWebTool

4. Broken Link Checker from AddMe.com

5. LinkTiger

6. 2bone Link Checker

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15 Helpful Web Based Broken Link Checkers

1. W3C Link Checker

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