How to Fix Broken Links
When a visitor comes to your website, she expects all the links to be working properly. If she starts getting "file not found" errors, she's likely to leave your site just as quickly as she came. Check your website at least once a month for broken links. When you put in the effort to find and fix broken links, both you and your visitors will be happy campers.
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Instructions
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Visit a website that offers free link-checking tools. Such websites include Dead-Links, W3C Link Checker and Webmaster Toolkit.
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Enter the URL (address) for the website you would like to check for broken links. Typically, there will be a long box labeled "URL" for you to type the address.
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Click on the option to "Check" links. Wording may slightly vary, depending upon the website.
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View the link checker results to see which links are broken. Be sure to view both "Internal" link results and "External" link results. Internal links go to pages within your own website. External links go to other sites.
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Study each link to determine why it is broken. If the link is internal, for example, you may have deleted or renamed a page but forgot to change your navigation menu. For external links, go to the linked website to see whether the linked page still exists. Check to make sure you did not mistype the URL.
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Log in to your website's hosting account. Go to your file directory to call up a page that has broken links. Open the HTML editor for the page, find the links and correct them.
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