Free Broken Link Checker
Crawls the internal and external links on any URL and verifies their live HTTP status codes (200 OK, 301/302 Redirect, 404 Not Found, 500 Error) so you can fix dead links fast.
What is the Broken Link Checker? (Direct Summary)
The StealMySERP Free Broken Link Checker scans any webpage's internal and external hyperlinks in real time, testing each destination URL's HTTP status code to flag dead 404 pages, server errors, timeouts, and unnecessary 301/302 redirect hops.
What this free Link SEO tool checks
- Live HTTP status codes (200 OK, 301/302 Redirect, 404 Not Found, 410 Gone, 5xx) for page links
- Internal vs. external broken link breakdown
- Redirect destinations so you can update links to point straight to the final URL
- Anchor text and exact destination URL for every dead or redirecting link
How to use the Broken Link Checker
- 1
Enter the webpage URL to scan
Paste any article, landing page, or resource directory URL.
- 2
Live parallel HTTP status verification
Our server extracts the page's links and checks their HTTP responses concurrently.
- 3
Fix 404s & replace redirect hops
Filter by Broken, Redirected, or Healthy links and update dead URLs in your CMS.
Why it matters for SEO, AIO & GEO
Organic SEO: Dead 404 links waste crawl budget, leak link equity, and hurt user experience signals.
Google AI Overviews (AIO): Google AI Overviews avoid citing pages with broken reference links or dead outbound citations.
Generative Engines (GEO): AI agents that follow reference links penalize or skip sources with rotting citations.
Broken Link Checker FAQ
Common questions about optimizing for Google Search, AI Overviews, and LLM citations.
It fetches the HTML of your URL, extracts internal and external <a href> links, and performs live HTTP requests to verify which links return 200 OK, which redirect (301/302), and which are dead (404/5xx).
Yes! Paste a competitor's resource page or industry blog post to spot dead external 404 links, then reach out to suggest your live guide as a replacement.
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