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Best Way to Easily Find and Remove Broken Links from your Website or Blog

What are Broken Links?

Broken links are the links which leads to a page that actually does not exist. When you publish any article on your blog than search engines like Google indexe it and add your article information to its database. After some days or months if you delete your previously published article than it is removed from your blog database but not from Google database. If anyone search for a keyword related to your article on Google than your article link come up in the search results. And if he/she clicks on the link then it leads to a 404 error page.

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404 error pages and broken links have a negative effect on SEO and which decreases your search engine ranking. Let’s take an example to explain it more clearly. Suppose if you search for a keyword on Google, than so many search results come up. When you click one of them you may come across a 404 error page. Now tell me that, what you will do in this situation? You will immediately leave that site and go for another one. Google consider this as bad practice and which gradually leads to decrease in your search engine ranking.

In this post I am going to tell you the best way to easily find and remove broken links from your blog. This can be done by using an online tool Google Webmaster Tool. This is one of the tool that I occasionally use to detect and remove broken links from my blog. If you have a blogger blog then there is no need to register but if you have a wordpress blog then you have to first register your blog. Let’s see how to remove these useless links from Google database.

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How to Find and Remove Broken Links?

1. First of all login to Google Webmaster Tool by going to the link given below:

            http://www.google.com/webmasters/

2. Now go to Dashboard and select the blog that you want (if you have more than one) from the drop down menu situated at right top.

3. Go to Health>Crawl Errors and than click on Not found option as shown below.

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4. After that you will see a list of all the broke links in your blog. Than click on any link from the list, now a new pop-up window will open, copy the link from there.

5. Now go to Optimization>Remove URLs and than click on Create a new removal request, paste the link that you have copied earlier in the box as shown below and than click on Continue button.

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6. A new window will open,there click on Submit Request as shown below.

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7. After completing this process just mark all the links as fixed so that these links will be not listed in the Not found list, otherwise they may confuse you in future.

8. You have done…..! Do you have any query? You are free to ask, just comment below.

Note: Google webmaster Tool will take some time to remove these URLs from Google database.

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