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Thanks so much for sharing this Jeff!

I enable and disable it every month or two (kills my server when running every night).  It is FANTASTIC.  

Also a user of broken link checker.  Invaluable tool to clean up messes.

But don't be too hasty to unlink everything.  Sites (servers!) get issues sometimes and the links aren't truly broken, or, are fine in a day or 2.  So don't kill the back links you extend to others – use your due diligence.

This is very good info Jeff. I was not aware of this issue. Running it now.. 

Thanks for the reminder Jeff!  I run the plugin but I don't always go in to clean things up.

As said above, don't be too quick to unlink.  Sometimes a server will be wonky but the site is running.  Use your judgement.

It was recommended by one of the speakers at FINCON11, and I've been running it since.  I get the broken link part; it's intuitive.  But, I don't get the redirects.  I've got hundred, but I have no idea how to work them to get them off the list.  Any tips from those of you who've figured that out?

The speaker was Ryan of Cash Money Life.  As for redirects, what you really want to watch out for are redirects that may be taking you to a site that's different from what the link says. For example, an old site could be bought out by someone that redirects the links to a gambling site.  Or a site could have malware on it that redirects somewhere unsavory.

Most redirects will be for things like url changes (like taking the date out) so I don't think you need to do anything with those.

Oh, and the first time you run the plugin you may want to do it at a low-traffic time because it eats up resources as it checks all your links.

sooverdebt said:

@SB – I just used the plugin. It's the same info from Webmaster Tools but you are given the options to edit the URL (I had several with typos or missing slashes), unlink the anchor text, etc. It's much faster. I had 52 broken links and fixed them in about 25 minutes. With Webmaster Tools it takes ages to go through them and figure out the problem.

Makes sense, I have only 4 broken links , which I couldn't figure out how to get rid of. Now seems I have a solution. Thanks Jeff and Andrea

That was one of the first plugins I was told to install, and it's been great.  

It'n not only helpful in terms of links to other blogs, but internal issues as well.  It will notify you of broken images or if internal site links that are down. 

I have that on my Israel Blog, but never added it to Narrow Bridge Finance. Thanks for the reminder. Can't forget the little things when dealing with Panda.

I love this plugin! I've been using it on my sites for a while now, and it definitely makes cleaning up links easy.

As others have said, be careful with deleting links. I have had a number of working links to other PF blogs get flagged as broken, so it's a good thing to check before you delete in many cases.

I never really thought about broken links in terms of SE ranking, so I'm glad that you brought this up, Jeff!