Is the bounce rate of your website increasing day by day? A high bounce rate is not a good sign for any website. Furthermore, it indicates to Google that your website is not interactive enough. Broken links can lead to increasing your website’s bounce rate on a large scale. 

It may happen that you’ve transferred your website’s domain, changed a web page, or any particular web page no longer exists. All are the possible causes of broken links.  People visiting your web pages see a ‘404 Error’ due to broken links, which decreases your website’s reputation. 

So, finding out broken links and fixing them are the solutions we can offer you here. 

How to Find Broken Links

You can use the manual or the automotive method to find the broken links on your website. However, the manual method of discovering broken links may not be suitable for your website if your website has too much content. 

Because, you know, it’s hard to go through all the web pages and content at a time when you have more than 1,000 pieces of content on your website. So, it’s better to use a tool to find the broken link quickly. 

But what tools offer to find broken links on a website? We’ve made a list of some tools below. 

• Finding & Fixing Broken Links Using Google Search Console

We’ve all the valid reasons in the world to pick Google Search Console as a tool for finding broken links on your website. The tool is free, beginner-friendly, and interactive. 

What you have to do here is first log in to GSC. Furthermore, if you don’t have a GSC account, create one. Next, submit the URL of your website for crawling. The tool may take some time to crawl the entire website. 

After some time (depending on the number content a website has), it will show you the crawling report. There, you will see your website’s ‘Not Found’ pages at the bottom of the GSC crawl error report. 

Now, you should go to the links and edit them. 

• Finding & Fixing Broken Links Using Broken Link Checker

Not comfortable with Google Search Console? Here is the broken link checker, a WordPress plugin you can use. First, you should install the plugin on your WordPress website.

The fascinating fact about Broken Link Checker is it automatically starts crawling your website once you have installed it. What you need to do is to check the crawling report. For this, you should first navigate the tool by clicking ‘Broken Links.

In addition, you can also fix broken link issues with the plugin. In order to do so, go to the ‘Edit Link’ section and out the text and a new link. Now, if anyone enters the previous link where the content no longer exists, they will be directed to the existing web page of similar content. 

Make sure there’s enough space on your checklist to look after finding and fixing broken link issues.