The Link checker crawls your whole site and finds links that lead nowhere: broken pages, missing images and dead outbound links. Broken links frustrate visitors and can dent your search rankings.
Available on the Business plan (or a trial).
Finding it#
Go to SEO Manager › Link checker.
Running a check#
- 1Click Run check. A dialog warns 'Any previous results will be cleared. This usually takes a few minutes.', so click Start check.
- 2The task joins a queue, then shows Checking links... with a live percentage and a progress bar.
- 3You can stop it at any time with Cancel.
It runs in the background, so you can leave the tab and come back. A big site can take a few minutes. Your last results are saved and shown again the next time you open the tab.
Reading the results#
Results appear in the Pages with broken links card, grouped by page. Filter with Error type (All, Server (5xx), Client (4xx), Redirect (3xx)). Click a page to expand it and see each broken link with its status code. Every page row has a View link (opens the live page) and an Edit pill (opens it in the editor). If everything resolved, you'll see 'No broken links found'.
Fixing what it finds#
Open the page with its Edit pill and fix or remove the bad link. For a page you've permanently deleted, set up a 301 redirect so old links still land somewhere useful.
The other buttons#
Clear results wipes the stored findings. Download internal 3xx exports a CSV of internal redirect chains, worth tidying up so links point straight at the final page.
Run it after any big content change, and keep an eye on your SEO Dashboard for overall link health.