Broken links always create a problem in the performance of a blog. Also, the SEO (Search engine optimization) of the blog also gets affected. Hence, to get good number of traffic to you blog, a blogger should always remove broken links from its blog. This way you can get good experience to your readers which might come back to your blog again and again. If you retain your visitors for long time, then you build a trust with your blog visitors.
If you keep sharing quality content on your blog, then it will automatically increase your income both through google AdSense and affiliate marketing. Hence, you should always keep your blog away from broken links. If you have broken links in your blog, the google spiders will stop crawling once they reach a broken link. Hence, broken links creates a full stop for google spiders, beyond which they don’t crawl.
How to find broken links
Broken links can be removed using broken links checker. If you are using Chrome, you can just install an extension with name as Broken link checker. This extension will check all the broken links with just single click of any URL or any page. You can check the below image about this extension in Chrome.
Once, you have installed the Broken Link Checker, you can see the red color “A” icon in the top right corner of the chrome browser. So, now if you want to check the broken links of any page, you just have to click the “A” icon and it will show the results instantly.
In below image, I have shown how the results of the broken links will be shown. The extension will scan the whole page links and will show the number of error or broken links on that page.
This is one of the easiest way to find out the broken links of any page using extension broken link checker.
