SeoSpidie
See your site the way search engines do
Enter a page URL and we'll crawl its links, checking each one for 404s, server errors and redirects. Fix broken links before they hurt user experience and crawl efficiency.
Links are checked by SeoSpidie's server. A few sites refuse automated checks (403, 429 or a timeout), so a link marked broken can occasionally be a site blocking us rather than a dead link — re-check anything important before you fix it.
It scans the links on a page and reports the HTTP status of each — 200 OK, 3xx redirect, 404 not found, or 5xx server error — so you can find and fix links that lead nowhere.
Broken links frustrate visitors, waste crawl budget and can signal a poorly maintained site. Internal 404s also strand link equity, and broken outbound links reduce trust in your content.
Internal links point to pages on your own site — you can fix these directly by updating URLs or adding redirects. External links point to other sites; if they break, update or remove them since you can't control the destination.
Update the link to the correct URL, restore the missing page, or set up a 301 redirect from the old URL to the most relevant live page. Remove links to pages that are gone for good.
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A broken link is a link that leads to a page that no longer works. Most often the destination returns a 404 "not found" error because the page was deleted or its address changed; sometimes it returns a server error, or the whole domain has expired. Broken links appear naturally over time as other websites reorganise, a process often called link rot.
Broken links hurt visitors first: someone clicks expecting an answer and lands on an error page. They also waste search engine crawling and, when the broken link points to your own pages, they stop link value from flowing through your site. A few broken links will not sink a website, but pages full of dead links look neglected to both readers and reviewers.
Checking a page regularly — especially long guides, resource lists and older blog posts with many outbound links — keeps your content trustworthy and makes sure your internal links lead where they should.
Every broken link is a dead end for a visitor and a wasted request for search engine crawlers. Internal 404s also strand the link value that should flow to your important pages, and broken outbound links make content look neglected.
Fix 4xx and 5xx results first. For links to your own site, update the link to the page's current address, restore the missing page, or add a 301 redirect from the old address. For links to other sites, replace the link with a working source or remove it.
Redirect results are not errors, but updating the link to its final address makes pages slightly faster and keeps your internal linking clean. A link that fails occasionally may point to a slow server; check it again before removing it.
A university library in Dublin maintained a popular "Research tools" page with 120 outbound links collected over several years. Students began reporting dead links.
The Broken Link Checker found 14 links returning 404 errors, three pointing to expired domains and nine redirecting to new addresses. The librarian replaced the dead links with current resources, removed the expired ones and updated the redirected links to their final URLs. The page stayed one of the library's most visited, and several external sites that cited it kept linking.
A few broken outbound links will not sink a page, but they hurt visitors and make content look neglected. Broken internal links also stop link value flowing to your own pages.
For your own pages, update the link or add a 301 redirect to the closest replacement. For other sites, replace the link with a working source or remove it.
Check important pages every few months, and always after a redesign, migration or large content clean-up.
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