How Can You Find and Remove Broken Links from Your Website?

The broken links are links that are linked to such pages that do not exist. When you click on such links it redirects you to the pages where 404 error pages are written. It is the standard HTTP response of broken links that indicates that the URL you are required does not exist. To Find Remove Broken Links is really important to make the site successful.

What if you are running the web and suddenly you come to face the 404 error? Many of the users immediately leave that site and prefer another one. This is because the people and as well as the search engines consider the broken links as the unprofessional behavior of the Web Development Company in Dubai or all over the world.

The 404 errors and the broken links on the web have the really negative effects on the ranking of the search engine. So for the Web Development Dubai, it is significant to proactive n avoiding such mistakes and improves the site exposure to increase the traffic of the site.

In this article, there are different terms and conditions are presented in the form of the tutorial that is really helpful for the bloggers of WordPress but is good for all the relevant website owners.

The bloggers are quick in updating their website as compared to the owner of other website owners. Therefore, for this reason, the blogging site has the higher chance to have the broken links throughout their blogging website.

There are two types of a plug-in are available for the WordPress blogs. These plug-in are used to deal with such broken links effectively. These two plug-in are also used by the professional Dubai Web Design Company. Here are the two major plug-in:

• Broken Links Checker it detects the broken links on your website
• Redirection this plug-in will going to manage the 301 redirects automatically

It is always a good to avoid avoiding the broken links manually without taking the help of plug-ins. It is good and deals with such issues more efficiently instead of installing the plug-in. it is always good to check the website occasionally for the broken links or the 404 errors.

Find and remove invalid URLs by using the Google Web Master Tools

There are two main reasons why the invalid web pages of the website are indexed in Google if they do not exist. Below is the reason mention:

• The reference to the internal link is entered invalid because of typo mistake. This is the right time to use the important plug-in for the post of the authors. For this reason, Link to post Plug-in is used.
• If you published a blog and want to change the published post permalinks afterward but for that Google has already indexed the original post link.

One of the best ways to detect these errors is by using the Google Web Master Tools. If you did not use the tool then use it. The Google Web Master Tool is good to index your website on Google. This is really important for all the owners who are running the website and by Web Design Agency Dubai. It is the most important tool that is provided by the GWT. It helps in removing the all unwanted and invalid pages from the search results of Google.

Here are the few ways to remove the invalid or bad URLs from the Google’s index.

How to find invalid web pages that are indexed by Google?

Once you log in to the Google Web Master Tools and verified your owned site that is designed by the expert and professional Web Designing Companies in Dubai. Here are the following methods of finding the invalid pages of the website.

• From the left menu click on the Diagnostics and then select the Crawl Errors
• Select the category Not found
• If there is any broken link available, click on view on that page contains the broken link
• Make sure that the URLs indeed indexed in the Google, copy the URL and paste into the search bar to view that whether any results come up.

Eliminating the URL’s from the search engine results

1. Click the Site Configuration and select the Crawl Access
2. Select the Remove URL option
3. Click on the New Removal Request
4. Select the first option from the menu to delete and remove the page from the Google search results

Or

From the menu select the fourth option if you want to retain the page on the search engine but want to remove the cache version of the web page from the website. This is useful when Google is going to display the outdated version of the website page in the Cached link.

5. Click on Next button
6. Type the desired URL you want to remove from Google Search result
7. Select the first option and click on Add button
8. Now the URL to be removed will be appeared in the list. You can add multiple pages for removal
9. After selecting removal pages click on Submit Removal Request (Your request will be executing in 2 to 3 days)
10. Click on the Site Configuration and select the option Crawl Access
11. Select the Remove URL option
12. The URLs that are requested for the removal are not going to appear in the list of the pending Request.
13. Click on the Removed URLs to view that whether the URL is mow present there or not.

To determined and confirmation copy and paste the removed URL into the search bar of the Google to see that whether any result will appear or not. The Web Design Company Dubai is also practicing the same procedure to remove the invalid URLs from the site.

Detect the broken links by using Xenu Link Sleuth

The other excellent tool used by the Web Design Dubai for hunting the broken links is Xenu Link Sleuth. It is a desktop application for the windows that gives the output for all the links to the sites that are they valid or not.

Install Xenu and perform the following steps to remove broken links;

• Click on the File and Select the Check URL
• Type the URL of your site
• Wait for all the links of site to be checked
• After checking, Xenu will ask for the Report, Click on Yes button

In the generated report, you can able to view all the broken links of the website which are sorted by links in the table. Once you detect all the links that are broken and then navigate their location to make the decision to make them fix or remove them.