14 Best Broken Link Checker Online for Free (Full List)

What is Broken/Dead link:

When someone visits your website or blog, s/he expects to read the story which s/he clicked for, but instead sees an error message "404 Error, sorry the page you looking for does not exist". This is called Broken/Dead link. You may not remember creating one, but It is your duty to make sure there are no Broken/Dead Link in your Blog/Website.

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How Broken/Dead link is created:

Broken Link appears for two reasons.

• First reason: When you change the link/Url of any post or page, the person who will visit through the previous link of that post/page will get a 404 Error.

• Second reason: When you take down any content or make it draft for any reason, anyone visiting through that link will get a 404 Error.

Impact of broken links in SEO:

Web Search engine like Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo ranks your pages, they create and save a cache file of your link in their server to serve search results faster. Search engines refresh
their cache from their server approximately in between one month to three months or more. 

So if your Blog, Page, Website ranks in Search Engine Ranking Page(SERP), you should take your broken links seriously. Whether you are aware or not Broken links are a major factor in SEO and can create a lot of unsatisfied readers for your blog/website. Search engines can also see this negatively and stop indexing your page, to avoid this you must redirect your broken links to a relevant page of your website.

How to find broken links in Website, Blog:

Previously this feature was not available for common users. It was and still is a premium feature and you have to buy it to use, or find broken links manually and redirect them to a similar page. 

The good news is many service providers and websites are now giving this feature for free. Yes, you can check broken links of your whole website-blog by simply entering the domain name and the Online Broken Link checker tool will find all the broken links of your blog website.

List of 14 Free Online Broken Link Checker Website:

• https://ahrefs.com/broken-link-checker (Premium service provider, may require to sign up or submit email)

• https://neilpatel.com/seo-analyzer/     (Premium service provider, may require you to sign up or submit email)

• https://www.brokenlinkcheck.com/

• https://www.deadlinkchecker.com/

• https://www.drlinkcheck.com/

• https://error404.atomseo.com (atom seo has Broken Link Checker chrome extension)

• https://smallseotools.com/websites-broken-link-checker/

• https://www.powermapper.com/products/sortsite/checks/link-checker/

• https://www.seoptimer.com/broken-link-checker

• https://www.site24x7.com/link-checker.html

• https://codebeautify.org/broken-link-checker

• https://linkchecker.submitexpress.com/

• https://www.duplichecker.com/broken-link-checker.php

• https://gf.dev/broken-link-test

Note: All Online Broken Link Checker is free to use, some may ask you to sign up or submit email.

Let me know this list is helpful or not! Your comment & suggestions are welcome.