How to check broken links in blog?

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  wp365wp · Member · Sep 24, 2015 at 11:45 am

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  I have recently merged my two self-hosted WP blogs into a new WP.com blog. Those two old blogs had many inbound links.

  My new WP.com blog’s stats show that viewers are clicking on those links but it shows only the name of the domain (and not the complete links).

  Is there any external tool available to check and find out invalid links in approx 200 posts?

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  noebiewan · Member · Sep 24, 2015 at 12:15 pm

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  Are you wanting to check for invalid links that are in posts on your new site, or wanting to check for links on the web pointing to your old sites?

  I wasn’t quite sure, from your post.

  i like this tool to check the validity of links on my own sites.

  https://validator.w3.org/checklink

  If you had Webmaster Tools set up for the old sites, you can see incoming links there. You can also do a Google search using the syntax “link:yoursite.com” – where “yoursite.com” is your domain name.

  I hope this helps.

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  wp365wp · Member · Sep 24, 2015 at 1:28 pm

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  Thanx, Noebeiewan for your help.

  I was speaking about the links of the other posts of older blogs (like x.com/ or y.com/) in my older blogs. Now these links have been exported to my new blog z.com but they are pointing to x.com/ or y.com/ domains that are parked.

  I looked into the tool you mentioned but I don’t understand some of its options. I’ve already removed my older blogs from search results using webmaster tools and I can’t do anything with linked content spread across web, can I?

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  noebiewan · Member · Sep 24, 2015 at 1:48 pm

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  You’re correct. You can’t really remove links from other folks’ sites.

  I think I understand the other thing now. You have internal links on your old sites, and when you imported the information, now they’re pointing to the old addresses instead of the proper pages on the new site. Yes?

  I don’t know of a tool that will clean those up, but you could search your posts and pages on the new site for the old domain names. That should identify instances linking to them.

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  wp365wp · Member · Sep 24, 2015 at 3:11 pm

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  You got it right!

  Checking individual posts would be the best solution though time consuming :)