Spot Broken Links, Missing Sitemap Pages and More (Feb 2025)

Keeping your website error-free isn’t easy—broken links and missing pages in your sitemap can quietly hurt SEO and user experience. This month, we rolled out new features to help you catch and fix these issues before they cause problems.

Here’s what’s new in Sitepager:

Detect Broken External Links

Not all website issues are under your control—sometimes, external links you’ve added stop working without warning. If you don’t check them regularly, outdated or broken links can both frustrate users and hurt SEO. But the impact goes beyond rankings—external links also affect UX and trust.

While reviewing our own site, we found a broken external link—our "Book a Demo" link wasn’t working.

This made us realize:

• External links break all the time.

• Most tools don’t check outbound links automatically.

Now, Sitepager does—so you don’t have to worry. It automatically scans external links across your website and flags any that are broken. Learn how to check external links in Sitepager.

How it helps:

• Automatically scans external links across your site.

• Identifies broken links (404s, 500s, etc.).

• Prevents users from clicking on dead links.

• Helps avoid SEO penalties from linking to non-existent pages.

• Helps fix issues before they impact trust and SEO.

  
  

  
  

Spot Pages Missing from Your Sitemap

Your sitemap should tell search engines what pages exist on your website. But sometimes, important pages don’t make it in, meaning Google might not even know they exist.

Sitepager now compares your crawled pages with your sitemap and flags any missing ones.

Why this matters:

• Ensures search engines index all important pages.

• Prevents pages from getting lost and hurting rankings.

• Identifies gaps that need fixing.

💡 Pro Tip: Making sure key pages aren’t missing from your sitemap is just one step in preparing your site for success.

Check out our Visual and SEO Checklist to cover other pre-launch essentials.

See How Your Pages Link Together

Internal links play a huge role in SEO, navigation, and user experience—but tracking them across a large website isn’t always easy.

With this new feature, you can see how your pages connect—both internally and externally—to spot missing or broken links.

What it does:

• Shows outgoing links—where a page links out to.

• Finds incoming links—which pages link to the current page.

• Displays linking text—helping you optimize anchor text for SEO.

💡 Pro Tip: Strengthen Your Site’s Link Structure for SEO
Google values well-structured internal and external links. Here’s how to optimize:

✔️ Use descriptive anchor text (avoid "click here").

✔️ Ensure important pages have multiple internal links.

✔️ Regularly check external links and remove outdated ones to avoid dead links.

✔️ Link to authoritative sources to improve trust & credibility.

📌 Why? Strong internal linking helps Google crawl your site efficiently, while clean external links prevent SEO issues and improve user trust.

That’s all for this month! If you have feedback or feature requests, leave us a message on your chat —we’d love to hear from you.

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