Audit & Optimize
Broken Link Checker
Crawl your site for dead links, 404s and redirect chains, and get each one back with the page it sits on and what it should point at instead.
No credit card required
In your own words
Ask it like this
Broken Link Checker is not a screen to configure. It is a conversation — these are the prompts the app itself suggests.
- Check homepage and key hubs for 404s
- Find redirect chains on important URLs
- Verify links from my main landing pages
What you get
The work comes back finished
Broken Link Checker returns something you can act on the same day, not a dashboard to interpret on your own.
Dead links, with their address
Every broken link comes back with the page it sits on and the anchor text it hides behind, so fixing it is a lookup rather than a hunt.
Redirect chains unwound
Links that resolve eventually, through two or three hops. They work for a visitor and leak authority on every step.
What to point it at instead
For each dead link, the closest live page on your site — or the archived destination — rather than a bare list of 404s.
How it works
Three steps, and you are done
Broken Link Checker runs the same way everything else here does — one workspace, one conversation, and nothing published behind your back.
Connect your website
One workspace per site. It crawls what you have, learns what the business does, and — if you connect Google Search Console — starts from your own measured performance rather than from market averages.
Ask for the job
Pick the skill or let Auto route it, and describe what you want in a sentence. It buys the data it needs from DataForSEO and Ahrefs instead of estimating it, and reads the live results for the terms in question.
Review, then decide
The findings land in chat and are saved to the project, so the next question builds on them. Nothing reaches your site unless you approve it — the only thing that can publish is an article, to a CMS you connected.
Under the hood
The numbers are bought, not guessed
Everything Broken Link Checker tells you traces back to a source you can name.
- Live crawl of your site
- Live HTTP status checks on every link
Included in every plan. There is no separate vendor account to connect and no usage bill on top of the subscription — where a figure is an estimate rather than a measurement, the answer says so.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Does it check outbound links as well as internal ones?
Yes. Outbound links rot faster than your own, because the other site can move or disappear without telling you, and a page full of dead references reads as unmaintained to a reader and to a search engine.
Why do redirect chains matter if the link still works?
Each hop loses a little authority and adds latency, and chains have a habit of growing until one link in the middle breaks and the whole path 404s. They are cheap to flatten and expensive to ignore.
Can it run automatically?
Yes — put it on a schedule as an Employee Workflow and it will sweep the site on its own, posting the report into chat only when something has actually broken.
Keep looking
The rest of the employee
Broken Link Checker is one job out of fourteen, and they all share the same context about your website.
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