Broken Link Checker by AIOSEO – Find & Fix Broken Internal, External & Video Links
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About
Broken link checker that finds and fixes broken links, broken images, and dead video links to protect your site's SEO.
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What It Does
The plugin scans your WordPress site for broken internal links, dead external URLs, missing images, and non-playing video embeds, then lets you fix or unlink them directly from the dashboard. It runs background checks on a schedule and flags problematic content in posts, pages, comments, and custom post types. In practice it acts as a site health monitor that prevents 404 errors from hurting user experience and search rankings.
Who It's For
This plugin is a good fit for content-heavy sites such as news publishers, blogs with many external references, e-commerce stores linking to product pages, and agencies managing multiple client sites that need ongoing link auditing. It is especially useful for sites with old content archives where links may have rotted over time. Editors who want a single dashboard to find and fix dead links without writing custom queries will benefit most.
Who Should Skip It
If your site is brand new, has under 50 pages, or contains almost no outbound links, the scanning overhead is unnecessary and the plugin offers little value. Sites on very low-resource shared hosting should also avoid it, since continuous crawling can spike server load.
The Bottom Line
Broken Link Checker by AIOSEO delivers a solid feature set with strong maintenance signals and a respectable quality score of 83.43 out of 100. It is a sensible choice for content-rich sites that need ongoing link monitoring, though sites that primarily need redirect management may be better served by Redirection. The modest user rating and small support sample mean it is worth testing on a staging site before committing.
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