---
title: "Broken Links Detection — Lemwatch Help"
description: "LemWatch crawls your website to find broken internal and external links, dead anchors, and 404 pages that hurt SEO and UX."
canonical: "https://lemwatch.com/help/broken-links"
source: "https://lemwatch.com"
---

# Broken Links Detection

> LemWatch crawls your website to find broken internal and external links, dead anchors, and 404 pages that hurt SEO and UX.

## Broken Links Detection

### How It Works

 LemWatch crawls your site's pages and tests every link it finds. Links returning 404, 500, or timing out are flagged as broken.

### What We Find

- Internal broken links — Links to pages on your own site that don't exist

- External broken links — Links to other websites that are down or removed

- Redirect chains — Links that go through multiple redirects (slow and SEO-harmful)

- Anchor links — Fragment links (#section) pointing to non-existent page sections

### How to Fix

- Navigate to your site's SEO tab

- Click Broken Links to see the full list

- For each broken link, you'll see:

- The page containing the link

- The broken URL

- The HTTP error code

- Suggested fix (update URL, remove link, or set up redirect)

### Automatic Tracking

 LemWatch tracks broken links over time. When a previously working link breaks, you'll get an alert. When you fix it, LemWatch confirms the resolution on the next check.


## Related

- [Help centre](https://lemwatch.com/help)
- [SEO Health Monitoring](https://lemwatch.com/help/seo-monitoring)
- [Content Freshness Tracking](https://lemwatch.com/help/content-freshness)
- [Inviting Team Members](https://lemwatch.com/help/inviting-team-members)
- [Lemwatch pricing](https://lemwatch.com/pricing)
- [Browser Push Notifications](https://lemwatch.com/help/browser-push-notifications)
- [Where do I follow Lemwatch product updates?](https://lemwatch.com/help/blog-and-changelog-updates)