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Find broken links on your site with Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) Find broken links on web sites Wikipedia article about Xenu's Link Sleuth Description Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on "normal" links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time. Additional features: Simple, no-frills user-interfaceCan re-check broken links (useful for temporary network errors)Simple report format, can also be e-mailedExecutable file smaller than 1MBSupports SSL websites (" ")Partial testing of ftp, gopher and mail URLsDetects and reports redirected URLsSite Map Download System requirements: Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10, WININET.DLL required (included with Internet Explorer).

To have peace of mind, I recommend that you are using an up-to-date anti-virus software on your computer (so do I!). 1. See here. 2. 3. 4. 5. Or. Broken Link Checker. This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found. Features Monitors links in your posts, pages, comments, the blogroll, and custom fields (optional).Detects links that don't work, missing images and redirects.Notifies you either via the Dashboard or by email.Makes broken links display differently in posts (optional).Prevents search engines from following broken links (optional).You can search and filter links by URL, anchor text and so on.Links can be edited directly from the plugin's page, without manually updating each post.Highly configurable. Suggest new features and improvements here Basic Usage Once installed, the plugin will begin parsing your posts, bookmarks (AKA blogroll) and other content and looking for links.

Depending on the size of your site this can take from a few minutes up to an hour or more. The broken links, if any are found, will show up in a new tab of the WP admin panel - Tools -> Broken Links. Translations Other Credits. Screaming Frog SEO Spider Tool & Crawler Software. About The Tool The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a fast and advanced SEO site audit tool. It can be used to crawl both small and large websites, where manually checking every page would be extremely labour intensive, and where you can easily miss a redirect, missing page title, or duplicate page issue.

You can view, analyse and filter the crawl data as it’s gathered and updated in real-time in the apps UI. The SEO Spider allows you to export key onsite SEO elements (URL, page title, meta description, headings etc) to a spread sheet, so it can easily be used as a base for SEO recommendations. Check our out demo video above. Crawl 500 URLs For Free The ‘lite’ version of the tool is free to download and use. For just £199 per year you can purchase a licence, which removes the 500 URL crawl limit, allows you to save crawls, and opens up the spider’s configuration options and advanced features. FAQ & User Guide For more guidance and tips on our to use the Screaming Frog SEO crawler – Updates. IMN Broken Links Tool. Using the Check Image Sizes, Alt Text, Header Checks, and More Free SEO Tool Links to image graphics and HTML files enhance the value of a webpage to both human users and to search engines. But if there are broken links (resulting in 404 errors), incorrect redirects are used (for SEO purposes, we mean temporary 302s), or image files are excessively large (thus weighing down page load speed), they can be detrimental to the search optimization of a page.

Use the Check Image Sizes, Alt Text, Header Checks, and More Free SEO Tool to get a fast SEO report on the status of images and links used within a webpage. To scan a webpage, type or paste the URL in the free SEO tool’s text box, and then click Ninja Check. The scan is very fast. Once complete, the free SEO analysis tool presents a Summary table containing the numbers for the following: An Image Details table follows the summary produced by the free SEO tool, presenting the following information on images used within the page: Notes: C Link Checker. Creating useful 404 pages - Webmaster Tools Help. A 404 page is what a user sees when they try to reach a non-existent page on your site (because they've clicked on a broken link, the page has been deleted, or they've mistyped a URL). A 404 page is called that because in response to a request for a missing page, webservers send back a HTTP status code of 404 to indicate that a page is not found.

While the standard 404 page can vary depending on your ISP, it usually doesn't provide the user with any useful information, and most users may just surf away from your site. If you have access to your server, we recommend that you create a custom 404 page. A good custom 404 page will help people find the information they're looking for, as well as providing other helpful content and encouraging them to explore your site further.

(Note: This article covers guidelines for creating the content of your custom 404 page. Because a 404 page can also be a standard HTML page, you can customize it any way you want. Remove'em: The Bad Backlink Removal Tool and Service. Disavow links you don’t trust & SEO Analyzer updates - Webmaster Center blog - Site Blogs - Bing Community.