What is broken links?

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The links which are broken or changed are called as broken links.

Links those are visible on our page but they doesn't work anymore...

When that question was originally published, it had eight links associated with it at the bottom of the question. They were all interesting, relevant links. Within five months, all eight of the links were broken. Because all of the links were broken, it generated a lot of angry . New links were put in. They all broke, and so on.

HowStuffWorks contains many thousands of links. At regular intervals, we run a piece of code that checks for broken links. Each time, there are almost a thousand broken links.

Broken links are links that lead to pages that do not exist. When clicking on a broken link, the page you land on is called a 404 error page.

Broken links are links that is the process of web pages does not exits that is called broken links, dead links or dangling links. Its also have negative effect of the search engine rankings. E.g. 404 error, DNS error.

Broken links are links that have URLs that are inoperative, or do not lead to the proper pages as indicated by the link.

You guys are quoting the obvious - your all right - but very obvious...

Broken links are links that lead to pages that do not exist. When clicking on a broken link, the page you land on is called a 404 error page, a standard HTTP response that indicates that the requested URL doesn’t exist. 404 errors and broken links also have negative effects on your search engine rankings.

A broken link is a link that doesn't work, often resulting in an error page. A broken link happens when the link points to a web page that has been deleted or moved.

broken links basically does not open and work show the 404,501,timeout error if you find out broken links you can use xenu tools