Broken link is an inevitable thing that will appear on your blog one day. There are many reasons that cause this issue: you may type the link incorrectly, the page or file you link to is unavailable etc. So checking your site for broken links regularly is a must task whether you are a novice or an experienced blogger. It may make your blog more search engine friendly and even keep your readers (I’m sure that you don’t want to mess your readers with broken links). Here are 6 handy tools to solve this issue fast and effectively.
01. Xenu's Link Sleuth is a handy application that helps you check the 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. This utility also displays a continuously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria.
02. Fast Link Checker is a software that will search sites for broken links. This utility works like a robot of a search engine (Googlebot, MSNBot, WISENutbot, Alexa, etc.). If it finds a broken link, it shows its position in the document, the cause why it does not work and a hint how it can be fixed. Besides, it has a flexible management system and can check links to documents, images, scripts and other files.
03. Broken Links Checker is a small, easy to use and essential utility that crawls your website and identifies broken or dead Links. It can also return Anchor text allowing you to spot the broken Links in a flash. It also analyses your 301 or 302 redirect navigations to ensure they are working correctly.
04. Web Link Validator is a useful site management utility that checks links and helps webmasters to automate the process of web site testing. The utility performs thorough analysis of a Web site: finds broken links (including those using JavaScript and Flash), orphaned files, slow-loading, deep, outdated and small-sized pages.
05. LinkByLink is a useful application which was designed to checks websites for broken links internal and external links and invalid email addresses these and other tasks. The results of a website check executed by LinkByLink can be exported in several formats and can be filtered by regular expressions. The integrated HTML source code browser helps finding the exact location of an error in the HTML sources.
06. HTML Link Validator is a useful and professional tool that will check web pages for broken links, on a web server or on your local computer. It can validate thousands of HTML documents at once. When validating pages and sites which are on a web server, anywhere on the Internet, it acts as a fully automated, multi-threaded, link-following web spider, and gives you a full report on links found in all scanned files and pages.
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