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About Broken Link Checker by AIOSEO – Easily Fix/Monitor Internal and External links
Broken Link Checker by AIOSEO is a plugin for WordPress that checks and fixes broken links on your website. It provides granular control over which links to monitor and allows you to exclude certain URLs from being checked. The plugin is hosted on AIOSEO's servers, ensuring that your website's performance is not affected.Frequently asked questions
What is Broken Link Checker by AIOSEO?
Broken Link Checker by AIOSEO is a WordPress plugin designed to ensure all internal and external links on your website are functioning correctly. It helps detect and fix broken links quickly and easily.
How does Broken Link Checker by AIOSEO work?
Unlike other plugins, Broken Link Checker by AIOSEO is offered as a SaaS and requires an AIOSEO account. The tool is hosted on AIOSEO servers, which prevents your server IP from being blocked and avoids increased resource usage on your hosting.
What are the benefits of using Broken Link Checker as a SaaS?
Using it as a SaaS prevents negative impact on your website's performance and ensures you always have access to the most up-to-date version of the service. It also provides actionable recommendations for fixing broken links.
Is there a free option for Broken Link Checker by AIOSEO?
Yes, when you install the plugin, you can register for a free account that includes scanning up to 200 internal links. These 200 link credits renew every month for free.
Who is the author of Broken Link Checker by AIOSEO?
The author of Broken Link Checker by AIOSEO is the AIOSEO Plugin Team.
Changelog
New in Version 1.2.5
- Fixed: Link status scan sometimes getting stuck due to URL hash collisions.
- Fixed: Free plan not indicating that external links are not supported.
New in Version 1.2.4
- Updated: Hardening of ORDER BY/LIMIT clauses for database queries.
New in Version 1.2.3
- Updated: Added support for updating/removing relative URLs.
New in Version 1.2.2
- New: Added support for indexing and checking media URLs.
- Updated: Improved link removal process to increase rate of success.
- Fixed: Link Status row now closes after performing a table action to ensure no data leaks through to the next row.
New in Version 1.2.1
- New: Added a “Not Checked Yet” filter for new, unchecked links to the links table.
- New: Added an alert to the link info modal to indicate the date when the link will be rechecked.
- New: Added an admin notice to inform users when they have not connected Broken Link Checker yet.
- Fixed: Image URIs could cause catastrophical regex backtracking, freezing up the site.
- Fixed: Links with leading/trailing spaces in their URL or anchor text could not be edited or unlinked.
- Fixed: Broken links sometimes not highlighted for pages and CPTs.
New in Version 1.2.0
- New: Broken Links Highlighter – The new highlighter marks broken links on the frontend of your website, making it easier for you to find and fix them.
- New: AIOSEO Redirects Integration – BLC now integrates with AIOSEO Redirects so that you can easily redirect broken links to a working URL.
- Updated: Added additional inline error alerts for better user experience.
- Fixed: URLs with encoded characters could not be scanned because they were incorrectly hashed in the database.
- Fixed: URLs for media files (with the exception of images) are no longer indexed.
- Fixed: Unified URL rows now correctly respect the included post types, included post status, excluded posts and excluded domain settings.
- Fixed: When deleting a post, the confirmation modal now correctly shows up again.
New in Version 1.1.2
- Fixed: PHP error causing settings screen not to load when using default excluded domains value.
New in Version 1.1.1
- New: You can now exclude specific domains from being checked through the settings.
- Fixed: Limit Modified Date setting sometimes not working because WordPress Core was overriding it.
- Fixed: PHP notice when indexing links due to missing URL scheme.
New in Version 1.1.0
- New: Unified Links – Duplicate links are now grouped together in the UI for an improved user experience.
- Updated: Added support for PHP 8.2.
- Updated: Added sorting for the URL column in the Broken Links report table.
- Updated: Added a progress bar for the link status scan.
- Updated: Added a confirmation modal to prevent user from trashing posts by mistake.
- Updated: Improved performance of rechecking links in bulk.
- Updated: Improved general performance of database queries.
- Updated: “Broken Links” is now the default table filter after the link status scan has been completed.
- Fixed: Various issues where updating, removing or force-rechecking certain links sometimes failed.
- Fixed: Connecting to remote server sometimes hanged until the user refreshed the page.
See our changelog on aioseo.com for previous releases.
