If you often change your site with a worthy content and a lot of links are broken, it pains users. It make many of your users highly irritated. You may ask yourself, Where do I lag? I have a lot of content but why all these? The reason behind it will be broken links. It is essential to check for broken links periodically. Broken links keep search engine spiders from properly indexing your site. Your search engine traffic will be highly affected due to broken links. Broken links make your site look bad and confuse your visitors. Depending on how frequently you change your content and how large your site is, it’s wise to check for broken links once in a week or even shorter. RankQuest provides you a tool which checks your site for broken links.

The Link Checker tool checks for broken links in a page. Broken links are links that show a “page not found” (404) error or something similar when clicked .

This tools checks the following types of links in your page to see if they are broken

* absolute links (http://www.mysite.com) relative (../mypage.htm)
links.
* in-page links (e.g. yourpage.htm#top)
* links to other pages on your site (e.g. yoursite/yourpage.htm)
* links to other sites (e.g. yoursite.com)
* images links on your page (png, gif, jpg & bmp)
* images inside HTML forms

A site without broken links will give a quality assurance for users to access your site more frequently and freely.

Mark

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