A website with broken links does not perform to its potential and often creates bad user experience. Dead links lead to poor usability that heck broken links drives away the visitors and hence, prospective customers are lost. More so, search engines don’t index a website properly that has broken links and thus, search engine visibility of the website slackens drastically. Therefore, it’s important to remove/fix the dead links as soon as possible.

Tracking the broken links is the first step to deal with it, and Google webmaster account must be monitored on a regular basis for the same. Link checking also includes checking of images and external files for proper referencing. A number of web-based and stand-alone tools are also available to help one check broken links. Continue reading →