Broken Link Checker Plugin Review

Broken Link Checker Plugin Review

Are you looking for the perfect WordPress Plugin to fix the Broken link on your WordPress website? you are at right Post, In this post, I will review the Broken Link Checker Plugin to fix the broken link on your WordPress website. A broken link not only disappoints user but also hurt your SEO ranking. Search Engine treats every link on your website as an upvote and every broken link on your website considered as a downvote. if your website has a larger number of broken link then the search engine will downgrade your website SEO ranking even if your website has lots of good content.

Broken Link Checker Plugin Review-:

Broken Link Checker Plugin Review

This WordPress SEO Plugin helps to find and fix Broken Links (404 Error) on your WordPress site and helps to improve user experience and website ranking. It checks for broken links (for posts, pages, comments, blogroll, and custom fields etc.) on your site.

When the plugin finds broken links, it notifies you via dashboard or email. Also, with this plugin, you can set the nofollow attribute for broken links. Broken Link Checker monitors and tests all internal links & external links on your site looking for broken links. It helps you fix bad links to improve SEO and user experience.

Silent Features of Broken link Checker Plugin-:

  • This Plugin Monitors external links and internal links in your posts, pages, comments, the blogroll, and custom fields (optional).
  • This Plugin Detects links that don’t work, missing images and redirects.
  • It Notifies you either via the Dashboard or by email.
  • It Makes broken links display differently in posts (optional).
  • It Prevents search engines from following broken links (optional).
  • You can search and filter links by URL, anchor text and so on.
  • Links can be edited directly from the plugin’s page, without manually updating each post.
  • This Plugin is Highly configurable.

Once installed, the plugin will begin parsing your posts, bookmarks (AKA blogroll) and other content and looking for links. Depending on the size of your site this can take from a few minutes up to an hour or more. When parsing is complete, the plugin will start checking each link to see if it works. Again, how long this takes depends on how big your site is and how many links there are. You can monitor the progress and tweak various link checking options in Settings -> Link Checker.

Broken Link Checker Plugin ReviewThe broken links, if any are found, will show up in a new tab of the WP admin panel – Tools -> Broken Links. A notification will also appear in the “Broken Link Checker” widget on the Dashboard. To save display space, you can keep the widget closed and configure it to expand automatically when problematic links are detected. E-mail notifications need to be enabled separately (in Settings -> Link Checker).

Broken Link Checker Plugin Review

The “Broken Links” tab will by default display a list of broken links that have been detected so far. However, you can use the links on that page to view redirects or see a listing of all links – working or not – instead. You can also create new link filters by performing a search and clicking the “Create Custom Filter” button. For example, this can be used to create a filter that only shows comment links.

Broken Link Checker Plugin Review

There are several actions associated with each link. They show up when you move your mouse over to one of the links listed the aforementioned tab –

  • “Edit URL” lets you change the URL of that link. If the link is present in more than one place (e.g. both in a post and in the blogroll), all occurrences of that URL will be changed.
  • “Unlink” removes the link but leaves the link text intact.
  • “Not broken” lets you manually mark a “broken” link as working. This is useful if you know it was incorrectly detected as broken due to a network glitch or a bug. The marked link will still be checked periodically, but the plugin won’t consider it broken unless it gets a new result.
  • “Dismiss” hides the link from the “Broken Links” and “Redirects” views. It will still be checked as normal and get the normal link styles (e.g. a strike-through effect for broken links), but won’t be reported again unless its status changes. Useful if you want to acknowledge a link as broken/redirected and just leave as it is.

You can also click on the contents of the “Status” or “Link Text” columns to get more info about the status of each link. Broken link Checker Plugin have 4+ star rating on WordPress Plugin Directory and more than 700,000 active installations.

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