Find Broken Internal Links Across Your Shopify Store
When you change a product’s URL handle, any internal links in product descriptions, page content, or blog posts that point to the old URL break silently. Shopify has no tool to find these. AssetScope’s Broken Link Auditor crawls your entire store and flags every dead internal link.
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Silent breakage after URL changes
Changing a product URL handle breaks internal links in descriptions, pages, and blog posts — and Shopify never warns you.
No built-in audit tool
Shopify has no built-in tool to audit internal links. You have no way to know which links in your content are pointing to pages that no longer exist.
Wasted crawl budget
Broken internal links waste crawl budget and create dead ends for Googlebot, preventing PageRank from flowing to the pages that matter.
Customers hit dead ends
Customers clicking a link in a blog post or product description that returns a 404 lose trust and leave your store.
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What it will do
Crawl all internal links
Scan every internal link across product descriptions, pages, and blog posts — not just links in your theme templates.
Flag dead URLs
Flag any link that points to a non-existent URL — deleted products, changed handles, or removed collections.
Pinpoint the source
Show exactly where each broken link appears — which product description, which page, which blog post — so you can fix it immediately.
Suggest replacement URLs
Suggest the correct replacement URL based on existing redirects, so you know exactly what to change each broken link to.
Re-scan after fixes
Re-scan your store after making fixes to confirm everything is clean and no broken links remain.
Try our live tools while you wait
These tools are available right now inside AssetScope.
Frequently Asked Questions
Shopify has no native broken link checker. External tools like Screaming Frog can crawl your storefront, but they only find links in your theme templates — not links embedded inside product descriptions or page content fields. AssetScope’s Broken Link Auditor will scan links inside all content fields, not just theme templates.
No. Shopify does not offer any built-in tool for auditing internal links. The URL Redirects page shows existing redirects but does not scan your store for links that point to non-existent URLs.
Yes. Broken internal links waste crawl budget because Googlebot follows them and gets a 404 response. They also prevent PageRank from flowing to the target page, and they signal to search engines that the site is poorly maintained. Google’s John Mueller has confirmed that excessive 404s from internal links can affect crawl efficiency.
You need to find every place the old URL appears — product descriptions, page content, blog posts, theme sections — and update it to the new URL. This is a manual process in Shopify because there’s no find-and-replace across all content types. AssetScope’s Broken Link Auditor will identify every broken reference and show you exactly where to fix it.