What are Broken Links
Broken links are the links which leads to a page that actually does not exist. When you publish any article on your blog than search engines like Google indexe it and add your article information to its database. After some days or months if you delete your previously published article than it is removed from your blog database but not from Google database.
If anyone search for a keyword related to your article on Google than your article link come up in the search results. And if he/she clicks on the link then it leads to a 404 error page.How to Find and Remove Broken Links?
1. First of all login to Google Webmaster Tool by going to the link given below:
2. Now go to Dashboard and select the blog that you want (if you have more than one) from the drop down menu situated at right top.
3. Go to Health>Crawl Errors and than click on Not found option as shown below.
4. After that you will see a list of all the broke links in your blog. Than click on any link from the list, now a new pop-up window will open, copy the link from there.
5. Now go to Optimization>Remove URLs and than click on Create a new removal request, paste the link that you have copied earlier in the box as shown below and than click on Continue button.
6. A new window will open,there click on Submit Request as shown below.
8. You have done!!!!
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