Xenu Link Sleuth is a very useful website broken link checker, which can spider through whole website, check out broken links and give you a broken link report.
Broken links do not point to a valid web page. Actually before I ran this program, I did not even notice that I had dead links and had no idea about how many they are on my website and affect my website.
A number of factors lead to links broken, even when you define them incorrectly. Regardless of Google rank, a website with lots of dead links will frustrate the visitors. Any conscientious webmaster should strive to catch and fix them before visitors notice them.
You can google "Xenu Link Sleuth", there are many versions. I use Xenu Link Sleuth 1.3.7, every time when I run this program, I get a report and the "table of contents" is as follows:
• Broken links, ordered by link
• Broken links, ordered by page
• List of redirected URLs
• List of valid URLs you can submit to a search engine
• Site Map of HTML pages with a Title
• Broken page-local links
• Orphan files
• Statistics for managers
Xenu Link Sleuth really helps in checking websites to make sure no links are broken/dead there. Especially when you plan to move your website to a new host, there are lots of changes, make sure to run this free software which will helps you a lot.
It is very simple to use this tool, just put the "url" in the box, then press the "ok" button, it will check your website automatically. This automated link checker is provided for free by a German programmer, Tilman Hausherr.
Want to know how to use this software to check your websites? You can find more article marketing tools and use them to make your websites better and boost traffic to your website.
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