Fix every broken link on your site

2-4 hr Impact: high ✓ Manual completion — a permanent stone

Fixing every broken link on your site — internal AND external — eliminates dead ends that frustrate visitors and waste crawl budget, a genuine maintenance task that accumulates naturally over time as content gets moved, deleted, or as external sites you linked to go offline.

Broken links subtly signal a lack of maintenance to both visitors and search engines, and every one wastes an opportunity that could otherwise be sending someone to real, useful content.

How to do it

1

Run a full site crawl

A crawler tool follows every internal AND external link and reports which return an error.
2

Fix internal broken links

Update to the correct current URL, or redirect if the content moved permanently.
3

Fix or remove broken external links

Update to a working replacement if one exists, or remove the link if the referenced content is genuinely gone.
4

Re-check periodically

This accumulates naturally over time — a periodic recheck, not just a one-time fix, keeps this genuinely clean.

Common mistakes

External links are easy to forget about since they're outside your control — a site you linked to years ago going offline or restructuring creates broken links you'd never notice without an active check.

How you will know it is done

A full site crawl shows zero broken internal or external links.

Tools that help

Screaming Frog ↗

Free up to 500 URLs — crawls the whole site including external links.

Set this stone in your hive

The Legacy Ring is permanent — once set, it stays set. This is the kind of work that outlasts any single scan or campaign.

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