VerflinkBroken Link Checker
Verflink crawls your whole site, follows every link on every page, and reports the ones that return a 404, time out, or redirect somewhere they should not. It is not a one-time spot check: once you verify your site, Verflink re-runs the scan every month and emails you when a link that used to work goes dead. Paste your URL to run the first scan.
What does a broken link checker do?
A broken link checker visits the pages of your site the way a reader would, collects every link it finds, and requests each one to see how it responds. A 404 means the page is gone; a timeout or a server error means it could not answer; a redirect that lands somewhere unexpected can be just as broken from the reader's point of view. Doing this by hand across a growing site is tedious and easy to skip, which is why links tend to rot unnoticed. A checker turns it into one report, and a good one keeps checking so you do not have to remember.
What Verflink checks
- ✓404 and 410 errors: pages that are gone for good
- ✓Unreachable pages: timeouts, DNS failures and server errors
- ✓Redirect chains, including ones that end on a homepage instead of the page you linked
- ✓Both internal links and outbound links to other sites
- ✓Pages that answer 200 but look empty or out of stock
- ✓Affiliate links, checked first and flagged if their tag went missing
How it works
- 1Enter your website
- 2Verflink scans your links
- 3Review broken or problematic URLs
- 4Fix the issues
Why broken links quietly add up
One dead link is easy to shrug off. The problem is that they accumulate: every time a source moves a page, a product sells out, or a site you linked to shuts down, another link on your site breaks, and nobody tells you. Readers hit dead ends, search engines waste crawl budget on 404s, and the site slowly feels less maintained. Checking once helps; checking on a schedule is what actually keeps a site clean, because the breakage never stops arriving.
FAQ
What is a broken link checker?
A tool that crawls your website, requests every link it finds, and reports the ones that no longer lead to a working page, along with where each broken link sits so you can fix it.
Does Verflink check internal and external links?
Yes. Verflink follows the internal links between your own pages and also checks the outbound links pointing to other sites, since both can break.
Will it slow down or overload my site?
No. Verflink crawls politely, respects your robots.txt, and paces its requests, so a scan behaves like a considerate visitor rather than a flood of traffic.
Can Verflink check my links automatically?
Yes. After you verify that you own the site, Verflink re-scans it every month and emails you when a link that used to work has broken.
What counts as a broken link?
A link is reported when the destination returns a 404 or 410, cannot be reached at all, or errors out. Ambiguous cases like a timeout or a 403 are kept separate as needs review rather than called broken, so a single hiccup does not raise a false alarm.
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