Masskontroll av trasiga länkar

What Counts as a Broken Link

A broken link isn’t always a plain 404. It can be a 410 Gone, a 5xx server error, a DNS failure on an external domain, or a redirect chain that times out after too many hops. Each one hits users and crawlers differently, but all of them waste the same thing: a visitor’s trust and a crawler’s time.

BulkDapa’s Bulk Broken Link Checker scans up to 50 URLs at once and reports the real status code behind each one, so you’re not guessing whether a flagged link is a dead page or just a slow redirect.

Varför trasiga länkar är viktiga för SEO

Broken links hit a site on two fronts. Users hit a dead end and bounce — a clear negative engagement signal. Crawlers waste part of their crawl budget on URLs that lead nowhere, which means fewer of your working pages get indexed as quickly as they should.

• User experience — visitors reach content without hitting dead ends.
• Crawl efficiency — search engines spend their crawl budget on live, valuable pages instead of dead ones.
• Link equity — a broken internal link stops authority from flowing to the page it was meant to support.

Internal vs External Broken Links: Different Problems

Internal broken links — ones pointing to pages on your own site — are usually caused by deleted pages, changed slugs, or a migration that didn’t update old URLs. These are fully in your control to fix. For a structured approach to finding them at scale, see our Internal Link Audit guide.

External broken links point to pages on other domains that have since moved or been taken down. You can’t fix the destination, but you can either update the link to a working replacement or remove it — and if that dead link used to be a backlink pointing till you from elsewhere, it’s worth reading Hur man hittar trasiga bakåtlänkar och återtar förlorad länkkapital.

Broken Links vs Redirect Chains

A broken link and a redirect chain aren’t the same failure, and they don’t damage SEO the same way. A broken link is a dead end; a redirect chain is a working but inefficient path — each extra hop adds latency and dilutes link equity along the way. Our breakdown on Broken Links vs Redirect Chains covers exactly where each one costs you rankings.

How to Use the Bulk Broken Link Checker

1. Paste up to 50 URLs into the box, one per line — your own pages, a competitor’s, or a mixed list from a crawl export.
2. Klick Kontrollera länkar. The tool requests each URL and records its actual response status.
3. Review the report — every link is marked with its status code, so you can tell a hard 404 apart from a timeout or a redirect.
4. Fix, redirect, or remove each flagged URL based on whether it’s internal or external.

How Often Should You Check for Broken Links

Link rot compounds quietly. A site with monthly content updates, affiliate links, or frequent outbound citations should run a bulk check at least once a month; a larger or fast-changing site benefits from a weekly pass on its highest-traffic pages. The goal is catching dead links before they’ve sat there long enough to drag down crawl stats or frustrate a meaningful chunk of visitors.

Who Uses a Bulk Broken Link Checker

• SEO-byråer running recurring client audits
• WordPress developers checking a site post-migration or post-redesign
• Affiliate marketers verifying outbound monetized links still resolve
• Blog owners cleaning up years of accumulated outbound citations
• Technical SEO specialists doing crawl-budget and indexation audits

It’s built for anyone who wants a fast broken-link check without installing a full crawler like Screaming Frog for a quick list of URLs.

Vanliga frågor

How many URLs can I check at once?

Up to 50 per batch, one URL per line.

Does this tool check internal and external links?

Yes — paste any mix of your own site’s URLs and external links, and each one is checked independently for its live status code.

Will a broken link actually hurt my rankings?

Not directly as a penalty, but indirectly through crawl waste and poor user engagement — both of which search engines do weigh.

What’s the difference between a broken link and a redirect?

A broken link returns an error with no destination. A redirect successfully forwards to another URL — it’s only a problem when there are too many hops in the chain. See our full comparison linked above.

Is this broken link checker free?

Yes, completely free with no signup required.

After clearing your broken links, check your site’s overall link profile with the Bulk DA PA-kontrollant or audit your crawl setup with the Robots.txt-filgenerator.