How to Find and Fix Broken Links on Your Shop Website

A broken link is a link that leads to an error page, usually "404 Not Found". They creep in when pages get renamed, coupons expire, or a partner site changes its address. Visitors who hit one may give up and call the next shop.

Finding them

Run our free check on your homepage. It tests up to 25 links on the page and lists the ones that come back "not found".
Click through your own menu on a phone and a computer: every menu item, the phone number, the "book appointment" button, social media icons and map link.
Use Google Search Console (free). Its page indexing report lists pages Google tried to load and couldn't.

Fixing them

Link points to a page you renamed or moved: update the link to the new address.
Page was deleted on purpose: remove the link, or point it to the closest useful page.
Old addresses other sites still link to: ask your web person to set up a 301 redirect from the old address to the new one, so visitors and Google end up in the right place.
Links to other websites (review sites, parts brands, coupons): update or remove them. Some sites block automated checkers, so click the link yourself before deciding it's broken.

Prevent new ones

Re-check after every website change, and whenever you end a promotion. Weekly monitoring (coming soon) will do this for your whole site automatically.

Check your own site in seconds

Our free website check for auto repair shops looks at one page for broken links, Google basics, phone setup, HTTPS, image descriptions and business details for Google, and explains what it finds in plain English.

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General information for shop owners, not legal advice. Last reviewed October 2026.