The tool will discover both internal (links to your own site) and external (links to other sites) broken links. If you have a very small site, this check might be possible to do manually with 'Check My Links' chrome extension by manually reviewing each page of your site and performing checks individually for broken links. Be sure to regularly audit your outbound links to insure you aren't pointing people (or bots) to broken pages. Google's web crawlers, or ' Googlebots ' travel link to link and collect data about each page. When your site has outbound broken links, it's bad for your users and your SEO.

Limiting, or eliminating all broken links pointing to external pages can be tricky, as you likely don't have control over the external content you are linking to and might not realize it has been removed or relocated on the external site. When you link out to other sites from your own site, these links are called outbound links. Today is a day about love, so let's keep the link juice flowing! Why Should Broken Outbound Links Make You Forlorn? Avoid linking out to broken content, and also avoid having pages on your site that are broken. Broken links are not only bad for user experience but can also be harmful to your site's loving relationship with Google, i.e. When visitors follow links to or from your site they are expecting certain content to be available to them once they get to that page.

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