SEO Tip – How to Remove Broken Links?

As website age is growing older and bigger (number of pages increases), you will have some external/internal links that are stale or broken. These hurt your SEO because search engines think you are too lazy to update those links. Fix these broken links is one of the important steps to improve your SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) score.

The straightforward solution is to go through every pages and check those links one by one. But the manual approach is not possible if you have thousands of pages, which are inefficient. You could also write a script, visiting each identical page and parse the links. Use this API to check if they are accessible. However, this is not a trivial task.

Fortunately, there is a online tool which does this job for you.

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The online tool will scan your website and find out the stale/broken links for you quickly. However, free usages are limited to 3000 maximum pages and 1 concurrent IP address. You could choose to upgrade and get the customized checks.

Fix WordPress Comment Author Broken URL

Some authors left comments with their URLs, however, these might become stale. To remove these from your wordpress, simply use the following SQL:

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update `wp-comment` set `comment_author_url` = '' where `comment_author_url` = 'BROKEN_SITE';

update `wp-comment` set `comment_author_url` = '' where `comment_author_url` = 'BROKEN_SITE';

Link Extractor

Eminent SEO has a free Link Extractor tool. It will display the status of every offsite link on the page, including 404s and 410s (http code for “Gone” or Permanently Removed i.e. used to exist but removed). This can help to quickly make sure every page on your site is fully optimized. Broken links can be a website killer so it’s important to conduct routine maintenance on pages to keep a website healthy.

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