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Find Broken Internal Links

Discover and fix broken internal links that harm user experience and waste your site's crawl budget.

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Broken internal links create dead ends for both users and search engine crawlers. When Googlebot hits a 404, it wastes your crawl budget and signals poor site maintenance. Users who encounter broken links lose trust and bounce — directly impacting your conversion rates.

ToolRouter's crawl_site and analyze_links skills work together to find every broken internal link on your site. The crawler follows all internal links from your starting URL and reports any that return 404, 500, or other error status codes, along with the source pages that link to them.

This is critical after site redesigns, URL structure changes, content deletions, and CMS migrations. Regular broken link audits (monthly or after major changes) prevent link rot from accumulating and damaging your SEO over time.

Agent Guides

Claude

  1. Connect ToolRouter: claude mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Ask Claude: "Crawl mysite.com and find all broken internal links using the SEO tool"
  3. Claude runs crawl_site followed by analyze_links to identify 404s
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ChatGPT

  1. Configure ToolRouter in ChatGPT
  2. Ask: "Find all broken internal links on mysite.com"
  3. Review the broken link report with source pages
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Copilot

  1. Add ToolRouter to Copilot config
  2. Ask: "Find broken internal links on mysite.com"
  3. Review the report inline
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OpenClaw

  1. Connect ToolRouter: openclaw mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Ask: "Crawl mysite.com and report all broken internal links"
  3. Review the results
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