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Internal links return 4xx/5xx (or go through redirects)

seo/broken-linkswarnvoid seoupdated

Why it matters

Broken links waste crawl budget and dead-end users; ChatGPT and Claude crawlers spend about 34% of fetches on 404s. Broken nav/footer links repeat on every page (error).

How to fix it

Fix or remove the links, and link straight to final URLs instead of redirecting ones.

References

void seo reports 60 rules in this category. What search engines need from the raw response: status codes, titles and descriptions in <head>, self-referencing canonicals, one h1, crawlable links, Open Graph, icons, robots.txt and a sitemap with real dates.