VerflinkBlog Link Checker
Your oldest posts are the ones that break. The sources you linked to years ago move or shut down, and the article that still ranks on Google now sends readers to dead pages. Verflink reads every post on your blog, new and archived, checks the outbound links and the links between your own posts, and reports the ones that no longer work. Paste your blog URL to run the first scan.
What does a blog link checker do?
A blog is a growing archive, and every link in it is a small bet that the page it points to will still be there later. Over the years those bets go bad: a source publishes a redesign and every deep link 404s, a study you cited disappears behind a paywall, another blog you referenced simply closes. Nobody emails you when this happens, so the rot is invisible until a reader hits a dead end. A blog link checker reads your published pages the way a visitor would, follows each link, and turns all of that into one list of what to fix. It needs no plugin and does not touch your database; it works from the public pages, so it fits any platform.
What Verflink checks
- ✓Outbound links in every post, including archived ones from years ago
- ✓404s on sources and references that have since moved or closed
- ✓Redirects that used to reach an article and now land on a homepage
- ✓Internal links between your posts, so a renamed slug does not orphan old links
- ✓Images and file downloads that return a 404
- ✓Affiliate links inside posts, checked first and flagged if the tag went missing
How it works
- 1Enter your website
- 2Verflink scans your links
- 3Review broken or problematic URLs
- 4Fix the issues
Why old posts break the most
The posts most likely to contain a dead link are also the ones you look at least: the archive. They have had the most years for their sources to move or vanish, and on an established blog they often pull the most search traffic, so a broken link there is seen by the most people. Fixing links only when you happen to reread a post means most breakage is never caught. Checking the whole archive on a schedule is what keeps an old blog from slowly filling up with dead ends.
FAQ
What is a blog link checker?
A tool that reads the posts on your blog, follows every link it finds, and reports the ones that no longer lead to a working page, so you can fix them without rereading every article.
Does it work with WordPress, Ghost or other platforms?
Yes. Verflink checks the public pages of your blog, so it works with any platform and needs no plugin or account access.
Will it check links inside my old archived posts?
Yes. Verflink crawls the whole blog, not just recent posts, which is where most dead links actually are.
Does it check outbound links to other sites?
Yes. It checks the links pointing to other sites as well as the internal links between your own posts, since both can break.
Can Verflink check my blog automatically each month?
Yes. After you verify that you own the blog, Verflink re-scans it every month and emails you when a link that used to work has broken.
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