We want to find broken internal links systematically.
Broken internal links hurt UX and SEO. A crawler finds them in an hour; you avoid three years of irritation.
Try this first
- 1Run Screaming Frog SEO Spider (free up to 500 URLs) on your domain. Response Codes > Internal > 404 lists broken internal links.
- 2Per link: find the source (Inlinks tab in Screaming Frog). Usually a blog post, sometimes a navigation item.
- 3Fix at the source: update the link to the right URL or remove it. Don't pile redirects when you can just correct.
- 4For WordPress: plugins like Broken Link Checker run periodic scans. Avoid plugins that run continuously in production; performance hit.
- 5For Webflow: use internal CMS relations with dynamic links. Page rename auto-updates internal links.
- 6Schedule a quarterly scan. External links rot (old sources vanish), so periodic checks pay off.
When to bring us in
Thousands of internal links across hundreds of pages and the finder bogs down? A dedicated audit agency (or SEO engineer with crawl experience) beats scrolling alone.
See also
- WordPress, plugins and theme have gone 6+ months without updatesOut-of-date WP is the number-one entry for malware. Don't just hit 'update all', back up first.
- Theme update broke the layout or threw a fatal errorThemes overwrite custom CSS on update unless you use a child theme.
- WordPress shows a blank screen after a plugin install or updateWSOD (white screen of death) is usually one crashing plugin. You isolate it.
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