PM Watson

As a Webmaster, the maintenance of large sites can mean big headaches when it comes to the connections are interrupted. Web pages renamed, moved or deleted, and it is therefore important that the site of the captain or Web developer, to ensure that all the links are updated, and there are no broken links, a shortage. It is important for your visitors, but also for your SEO efforts.

A free and easy-to-use tool for the links is defective: Xenu’s Link Sleuth. The program checks the Web pages of hyperlinks broken and checked it is not only the "normal", but also the connections of style sheets, scripts, frames, cards, pictures local connections, etc. It supports SSL sites, and recognizes the URL And the reports forwarded . Here are some interesting and useful features:
* You can, depending on your connection, the number of parallel lines before the start of the research;
* You can select specific types of compounds in the research;
* Selection of the properties for a link to the list of links you can see the address of the page link, the address of the page with the reality and the code of the link;
* At the end, it offers a nice report contains a list of links, a sitemap with HTML-page title.
Please note:
If you hotlink protection for your pictures, you will get a defective (403 - Access prohibited), for each time that an image is displayed. But if your pictures in the same folder (ie mydomain.com / Image), a remedy for this problem is to provide the addresses of the Web site of the images folder in the list of restrictions.
The In-and Out Links columns in the Xenu’s Link Sleuth’s table of links SEO contain valuable information. The number of incoming and outgoing links per page can be used to create your own pages and Web pages of your competitors.