Broken Links:

Links for which pages are not found or there is a change in main URL that's why it is showing broken.
Dead hyperlinks on websites are not just infuriating , but there presence may do some serious vandalization to your online business and its reputation in the internet .

Impacts of Broken Links:

• It will negatively impact on your usability and website's rankings with major search engine tools.
  
• Broken links are not just displeasing their existence may cause impact to your reputation in the internet
• It may cause lose some of the existing customer
• You will find difficulties with getting new customer because people won't be finding things(pages) they are looking for due to dead links
• It will harm your reputation on market

There are number of tools to check for your broken links:

1. Xenu's Link Sleuth(Windows only)
   (Download link http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html#Download)

2. Screaming frog SEO spider 4.1
   (Download link http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/)

3. http://www.brokenlinkcheck.com
   

4. http://www.deadlinkchecker.com
   

Steps to find broken links and redirected URL on web sites using Xenu tool:-

1. Open the Xenu tool


2. Click on File and click on Check URL



3. Enter URL of the application and click on Ok



4. When its complete open the status report

Steps Using Screaming frog SEO spider:-

1. Enter URL of The Website you wish to crawl in the enter url to spider box and hit Start.



2. To View Broken Links click on Response Codes tab & open Client Error (4XX) Filter.



3. By Clicking The In-links Tab to view the source of broken links


4. To view the data in a spreadsheet, Use The Bulk Export > Response Codes > Client Error (4XX) Inlinks Export



5. Crawling A List Of URLs For Broken Links
   (To switch to list mode, simply click on mode > list in the top level navigation and youll then be able to choose to paste in the URLs or upload via a file.)