I stumbled upon this free crawling tool on the web and I just wanted to share it with you guys. As you all know, search engines crawl your websites regularly through your inbound and outbound links. You wouldn’t want to stock up on broken links, would you?
This tool checks out all your links and more
The Xenu tool is free to download and use. It automatically connects to your website and starts crawling your site as any search engine would crawl it up. The great thing about Xenu is that it’s so easy to use. Just pop in the URL and it starts crawling right away!
I find it really useful in helping me detect and fix my broken links. Wouldn’t want the search engines getting upset over some broken links in my site.
The Xenu link crawling tool is very detailed in it’s presentation of links in your site. As SEO specialists, every detail and info matters to us so I find it really convenient to know all the details about all the links in my site. Best of all, it produces a report after it has crawled all the links in your site.
You can download the Xenu tool here.
Try it out for yourself.
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Very cool, this looks like a really useful tool. Thanks for sharing it, I probably would never have heard of it otherwise! -Rachel
My pleasure Rachel :) How are you enjoying the tool so far?
I've only used it a couple times so far but it seems like a great tool.
It is :) It's like a very specific and descriptive Google webmaster crawler tool – and it's free
Looks pretty cool. Is there a Mac version?
Yes there is. You can look it up here: http://thomasmaclean.com/blog/xenu-link-sleuth-mac
Hi!
Thanks for the share, I just downloaded the tools and it is busy scanning my URL’s, and let me tell you, there are thousands of broken links.
Now, it will be all great and stuff to have this list, but how exactly would you go by deleting or fixing them? Surely you don’t want to have to go and delete or fix each one individually especially if there are thousands?
I have the Broken Link Checker plugin for WordPress installed as well, but most of my broken links are in the CommentLuv comments, and Broken Link Checker doesn’t pick those up…
I hope there is a way to remove these links other than with Google Webmaster Tools.
Hey Ruan,
As of now there’s no other way than to redirect them (if there are multiple exactly-the-same-links that point to a broken website) or delete them. SEO has a lot of manual labor that you have to put up with. Life’s like that :)
So now you found that huge list in Xenu. But where do you actually go to delete them? Especially if they are from comments in the CommentLuv comments?
Do you need to go to your comments in your dashboard and then go through each and every comment and check the links by manually opening them up and see if the present any error pages?
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Your post is such a great & this tools very much helpful in Web Development
Thank You
Thanks for sharing, i will diffidently use it to crawl my blog
Thanks again :)
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