Broken link checker wordpress plugin - Search engine optimization
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What are Broken links?
Broken links or dead links are nothing but a link, which doesn't exist. Whenever user clicks on such links it would throw a return code 404 (Page not found) error.
Reasons: a) You may have miss typed the URL while linking to internal or external post b) Old URLs have been removed, to which you have linked from your articles c) The most common reason: Commentors site link may have been removed or redirected. d) 404 error may also occur if you have deleted an old post.

How Dead links can affect SEO?
Search engine expect you to link to a relevant and related page from your post. Whenever you are linking to a related webpage, you are actually increasing your seo score. But if the link is broken then it can adversely affect on page seo because dead link would redirect a user to "PAGE NOT FOUND". Search engine always concerned about user experience (especially Google) and 404 error is a bad user experience.
To get rid of these dirty links we have two solutions. a) Find such links by using below mentioned free tools and then fix it b) Use below WordPress plugin (for WordPress blogs only).
Broken link checker WordPress plugin
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