What is the difference between Dead link and Broken Link?

Are you confused between broken link and dead link? Don’t worry we are here to clear your doubts. Let go in detail.

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What is broken Link?

A broken link is a “hypertext transfer protocol” link which is not work or is not connected anywhere.

There are many HTTP errors like the 404 page, which means that the requested page is no longer use able and cannot be reached until the publisher fixes the error.

In short we can see that a broken list is a link that cannot be get into anymore.

There are many reasons to get broken Link. They are as follow.

Invalid URL entered in the web site.
The target website has been deleted from the linked web page. (404 error).
Sometimes the target website has been moved permanently.
A web site owner, may use some firewall, which does not allow external access.

How can I check broken links?

There are some tools available in internet you can use that. Some are listed below.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider
W3C Link Checker
LinkChecker
ahref
semrush

Website publisher have to check whether the

Pages are deleted
Web sites are renamed
URLs in links are mistyped

And it should be corrected.

What is dead Link?

It is otherwise called “orphan link”. An Internet connection pointing to a web page which is deleted or moved. But is will not show any error.

How to check deadlinks?

You can use https://www.deadlinkchecker.com to check it.

What is the difference between Dead link and Broken Link?

S.No	Dead link	Broken Link
1.	When they clicked, they did not open the webpage and show some errors	When they clicked they did not open a Webpage and don’t show any error.
2.	It May be temporary condition during the web server is down.	It may be missing of image or webpage and shows “Page Not Found”.That should be corrected by the publisher.
3.	You can use some Dead link checker to check this.	Use Broken link checker to check.