It is very common on internet websites that you click on the page, but you find nothing! The link is dead and there is no other way for you to get on to the page that you need! The frustration mounts up so much that you decide to go out of the website and see never back to that website.

Among the many bad habits or mistakes that a website can commit, having broken links is one of the most serious of them. Broken links bring with it so many negative effects that it may badly affect your online business or website reputation. Search engine bots are stopped dead by broken links because they would think that it is the end of the line. A website that is filled with broken links suffers a lot in terms of damaged reputation. The website will be seen as unprofessional. The same goes with website owner, who may be seen as a person with a dubious reputation. These negative hits on the reputation alone can have very damaging effects to a business.

And I am not even counting the many visitors who will not visit the site anymore because they have been turned off by the broken links. All of the links should be actively checked if there are any dead or broken hyperlinks. Many webmasters claim that it takes a lot of time to check each and every link to see if it is working or not. But this is not true, there are a large number of tools available on internet through which you can check your website for broken links and other bugs.

Xenu’s Link Sleuth  software checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on “normal” links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time.  Download Xenu’s Link Sleuth