How to Monitor Broken Links Over Time

Links break not because of anything you did, but because the outside world changes — a linked site restructures, shuts down, or moves content elsewhere.

Why This Is Inevitable

Any site with enough external links will accumulate some broken ones over time, simply from natural link rot happening on other websites you don't control.

Automated Link Checking

Dedicated broken-link-checking tools crawl your site periodically and report dead links automatically, far more reliably than manual spot-checking.

Fixing What You Find

Update the link to a current source if one exists, remove it if not, or redirect internal broken links to their correct new destination.

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