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Link Checker
- Rext AI’s broken link checker checks your URL instantly and shows whether the link is working correctly or not, helping you identify and manage broken or inactive links easily.
Free Broken Link Checker
Paste a URL, and Rext AI's free link checker tells you whether it's working. Find dead links before your readers do.
About Link Checker
Use the Link Checker to verify whether a URL is accessible and responding correctly.
- Enter a complete URL with its protocol.
- Use URLs beginning with https:// or http://.
- Check links before publishing content or campaigns.
- Review broken links to prevent poor user experience.
The basics
What is a Broken Link Checker?
Why A Broken Link Checker Matters
Visitors click a link expecting something useful but suddenly, when they land on an error page instead, most of them leave, and they rarely trust the page that sent them there.There's a search angle too. Google doesn't penalize a site just for having a few 404 pages, and it has said so publicly. But broken internal links create dead ends for crawlers, which can slow down how quickly your important pages get discovered.
What A Broken Link Checker Does
A broken link checker tests whether a web address loads properly and provides a report. Fixing them is one of the cheapest technical SEO wins available. It takes minutes, and it needs no developer.
What Rext AI Provides
You give Rext AI Broken Link Checker a URL; it sends a request, and it reports back on whether the page responded. If the destination is gone, moved without a redirect, or the server is failing, you find out right away.
How it works
How to Use Rext AI Broken Link Checker:
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Copy the link you want to test
Grab it from your article, your navigation, an email campaign, or a backlink report.
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Paste the full URL into the field
Include the protocol at the start, either https:// or http://. Without it, the tool can't process the address.
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Click "Check Link"
The tool requests the URL and reports whether it's accessible and responding as it should.
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Act on the result
If the link works, you're done. If it doesn't, fix the typo, point it to the new address, replace it with a better source, or remove it.
Examples
Broken Link Generator Examples
Features
Key Features and Capabilities
Instant URL testing
Rext AI Broken Link Checker provides answers in seconds.
Free to use
Check as many links as you need.
Nothing to install
Rext AI lets you check instantly without installing an extension.
Works for any URL
Test internal links, external references, affiliate links, and campaign URLs.
Made for non-technical users
Rext AI makes technical SEO easy for users; you just have to paste, click, and read the result.
FAQ’s:
Yes, Rext AI provides many technical SEO tools free of cost. You can use it without paying, and it works for any public URL.
Rext AI's broken link tool checks one URL at a time, which makes it best for spot checks and pre-publish reviews. For a site-wide audit, use it alongside a crawler and test individual links here whenever you need a quick answer.
Some sites block automated requests, require a login, or restrict access by country. If a link opens for you but fails here, test it again and check whether the destination limits bots.
Not directly because Google doesn't apply a penalty for 404s. The real damage comes indirectly, through poor user experience, lost trust, and wasted crawl paths on internal links.
Check every new page before it goes live and review older, high-traffic content every few months.
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