Broken Link Building Useful Resources

Check with the list broken link building analysis tools, plugins, softwares, interviews and articles most of which are free.

"Check My Links", nifty Chrome Extension to easily find the broken links on any page.
Broken Link Finder to find broken links and resource pages.

15 Tools (+reviews) for Broken Link Building

1. The Broken Link Finder (see review here)
2. Open Site Explorer (partially “automates” finding competitor 404 pages)
3. Check My Links Chrome Plugin – browser-based 404 finder (apparently removed, not by author…) Also it’s Available Here
4. Check My Links Chrome Extension – A Link Builder’s Dream (review) (new 2/27/12)
5. Screaming Frog – 404 finder
6. the Broken Link Building Tool – automated BLB prospecting
7. Xenu Link Sleuth (find broken links, page by page)
8. Wayback Machine (archive.org for discovering what used to be there)
9. Google Result Bookmarklet
10. Boomerang – outreach
11. Creating and Managing Your Link Campaign
12. Seer’s Broken Link Building Worksheet
13. Seer’s Broken Link Building Email Template
14. Dead URL – Suggests Alternative URLs from Same Domain
15. Domain Hunter Plus (new 2/27/12)

5 Broken Link Building Expert Interviews

1. Broken Link Building Tips: An Interview with Melanie Nathan
2. Broken Link Building: How Napoleon Suarez Gets 8-12% Conversions
3. Interview With Link Building Extraordinaire Melanie Nathan
4. 15 Questions with Nick LeRoy on Broken Link Building
5. Creative Broken Link Building Tips with Jon Cooper

1 Notable Forum Discussion

1. Busted links as reason for link request

21 Broken Link Building Process Guides

1. The Broken Link Building Bible
2. How to Use the Broken Link Building Strategy to Get Links
3. The Reciprocity Link Building Method
4. Broken Link Building: Feast On Your Competitors This Thanksgiving
5. Fixing the Web’s Lost Content: An 8 Step Guide for Link Builders
6. Need Links? Make Up for Your Competitor’s Shortcomings
7. Easy Link Building with Your Competitors’ 404 Errors
8. Broken Link Building In Action: REAL Email Examples Inside!
9. Reciprocity link building – step by step
10. Competitor Research – Focusing on Companies, Keywords, and Broken Links
11. Getting Links Using the Reciprocity Method
12. Link Building Tip: Discover Broken Links & Request Those Links
13. Link Building Tip #1 – Finding Broken Links
14. 4 Prospecting Approaches for Broken Link Builders
15. The Content Marketer’s Guide to Broken Link Building (PPT)
16. Broken Link Building Guide: From Noob to Novice (new 2/27/12)
17. A Tactical Guide to Broken Link Building (new 2/27/12)
18. Broken link building with Raven’s Link Manager and local directories (new 2/27/12)
19. Broken Link Building – A Case Study (new 2/27/12)
20. 5 Creative Broken Link Building Strategies (new 2/27/12)
21. CITATION LABS PROCESS AND TOOLS FOR LARGE SCALE BROKEN LINK BUILDING

1 Video

1. Link Building using old competitor sites & easy content development for SEO

9 Link Rot Resources

1. “Link Rot” and Legal Resources on the Web: A 2011 Analysis by the Chesapeake Digital Preservation Group
2. Fighting Linkrot
3. “Sic transit gloria telae: towards an understanding of the Web’s decay”
4. Cool URIs don’t change
5. URLs: Uniform Resource Locators or Unreliable Resource Locators
6. Web Citation Availability: Analysis and Implications for Scholarship
7. The Life Span of a Specific Topic on the Web
8. Digital libraries and World Wide Web sites and page persistence.
9. Link Rot at Wikipedia

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