For a large, established site, broken links can number in the hundreds or more, accumulated across years of content changes, migrations, and external sites disappearing — this covers up to 1000 links, the appropriate scope when the smaller tiers would clearly be insufficient for a site’s actual size and history.
If a random handful of old pages turns up broken links without effort, that’s the signal
Skip your recent content entirely and open five or six pages from your very oldest archives instead. At this scale, a site’s history of migrations and deleted content usually means broken links surface almost immediately, without needing to hunt for them — which is itself the sign this larger tier, not a smaller one, is the right scope.
Broken link scan & repair - up to 1000 links
Up to 1000 broken links found and repaired, organised for review at genuine scale.
- Full backup taken before we start
- If we can’t fix it, you get your money back
- We never ask for your own password
This or something else?
| You have a large, established site likely needing a scan and repair of up to 1000 links | This fix covers it |
| Your site is more modestly sized | Broken link scan & repair – up to 250 links, or the 50-link tier for a smaller site |
| You’re dealing with redirect chains and loops specifically, not broken links themselves | Redirect chain & loop cleanup |
| You want orphaned pages identified, a related but distinct issue | Orphaned page identification report |
What you are seeing
- Broken links appearing readily and frequently across a large volume of content
- Search Console reporting a substantial, ongoing volume of broken link issues
- The site having a long history, multiple past migrations, or a large content library
- Both internal and external links affected extensively across the site
Common causes
- An extensive content history spanning years, with many deletions and renames never properly redirected
- Multiple past migrations, each potentially introducing its own layer of broken links
- A large number of external links to other sites, many of which have since gone offline or restructured
- The sheer scale making manual or ad-hoc link checking genuinely impractical, allowing the problem to compound over time
- One or more redirect or link-management plugins swapped out over the years, each taking its own stored rules with it on removal
What we do
- Scan the site comprehensively for broken internal and external links, up to the 1000-link scope
- Determine the correct fix for each — a redirect, an updated link, or removal
- Repair internal links pointing to moved or renamed content at scale
- Update or remove external links that are genuinely no longer valid
- Verify repairs across a representative sample given the volume involved
- Provide a written, organised summary suitable for review at this scale
What is included
- A comprehensive scan for broken links, up to 1000
- Each broken link repaired with the appropriate fix
- Verification across a representative sample given the scale
- A written, organised summary of findings and fixes
Not included
- Scanning beyond the 1000-link scope, worth discussing directly if your site is genuinely larger still
- Redirect chain or loop cleanup, a separate, related fix if that’s the specific issue found
- Ongoing monitoring for new broken links as content changes over time
- Recreating content that’s genuinely, permanently gone with no reasonable replacement
Questions about this fix
What if my site actually has more than 1000 broken links?
We'd flag this directly if the scan surfaces a scope beyond what this tier covers, and discuss the most sensible way to proceed — likely prioritising the highest-impact links first within an expanded scope.
Does fixing this many links risk breaking something else on the site?
We verify repairs carefully, though at this scale we confirm a representative sample thoroughly rather than manually re-testing every single one individually — the process itself is the same reliable method used at smaller scales.
How long does a scan and repair at this scale typically take?
Meaningfully longer than the smaller tiers, given the volume — we'd give you a realistic timeframe based on what the initial scan actually finds, rather than assuming it's simply twenty times a smaller job.
Should a site this size expect to need this kind of scan periodically?
Yes, reasonably — at this scale and content history, broken links accumulate continuously, and a periodic scan is a sensible, ongoing maintenance practice rather than a single, one-time fix.
Will the written summary actually be usable given how many links are involved?
Yes, we organise the summary specifically to be reviewable at this scale, grouping and prioritising findings rather than presenting an unstructured list of a thousand items.
Related fixes
If this is the second time this year
A bad update breaking the site is a symptom of updates not being tested first. Care plans run every update on a staging clone before it reaches your live site, which is the actual fix for this happening again.
Your access, your rules
Create a separate admin account for us and delete it when we are done. For anything else, we get in touch and agree a method — never a form field on this site, never by reply to an email.
We back up first, always
Before anything is touched we take a full backup and keep it for 30 days. If a fix goes wrong, we put the site back exactly as it was.
If it is not what you bought
If the problem turns out smaller than what you ordered, we refund the difference. If it is bigger, we stop and send a quote before doing any extra work.
If we cannot fix it
You get back what we received. Diagnosis is on us — you only pay when the problem is actually solved. The payment processor takes its fee before the money reaches us, so we never hold it and it is not ours to return. That is true here as everywhere else.
If it comes back
Reply within seven days of delivery and we put it back on the bench at no cost. The fix is not finished until it holds.
What we are responsible for
If something goes wrong with a fix, our responsibility is limited to what you paid for it. We take a full backup first so mistakes can be undone, and we tell you before doing anything outside what you bought.