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Is there a program that checks your links on and off site?

by sylviad
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Occasionally, EA alerts me when one of my links is no longer working and I wonder if there's a way I can check myself for all of my links... both on site and off site.

I used to use FrontPage's link checking feature for my site while I'm working on it, but that program isn't working well at the moment. And, it doesn't check the links once the site is uploaded.

I'm about to make some serious changes to my sites and I know it will mean losing some links.

What are you using to make sure all of your links are still working? Seems to me I came across something years back, but don't recall what it was.

Thanks.

Sylvia

P.S.: Some of these sites are WP blogs, others are static pages.
#checks #links #program #site
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    Whoops! It seems someone moved my thread over here. No wonder I couldn't find it.

    Since it went directly to Page 2, I need to bump it.

    Does anyone have any answers on this? Thanks.

    Sylvia
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  • Profile picture of the author onlineballa
    Are you meaning back links from other sites or links actually on your site to other pages of your site?

    For back links scrapebox is an awesome tool to check exactly what you and your competitors back links are.. among other things.

    Or you can just use good old yahoo site explorer.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bellthorpe
    Checkbot does what you want, and does it very well. I have thousands of links on my Gallery of Unicode Fonts, and they go out of action regularly. Checkbot gives me a perfectly formatted report, in HTML format so I can click to any of the bad links. It also divided them by category, such as 404, 301, 500 etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author InternetMarketingIQ
    There is a very good free plugin for checking links on wordpress sites. Broken Link Checker... you can get it from WordPress or just search it from within your Admin Panel. No point really in trying to keep up on reciprocal links. SEO Elite is one of several programs - not free - that is a good tool for checking external links for various reasons.
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    • Profile picture of the author sylviad
      Originally Posted by InternetMarketingIQ View Post

      There is a very good free plugin for checking links on wordpress sites. Broken Link Checker... you can get it from WordPress or just search it from within your Admin Panel. No point really in trying to keep up on reciprocal links. SEO Elite is one of several programs - not free - that is a good tool for checking external links for various reasons.
      Ah! I HAVE that program. I hadn't used it for checking my own links. I thought it only checks the links that you create through the program, like when you search for link partners and do reciprocal links. If that's what you mean, then that's not quite what I'm looking for.

      The WP Plugin sounds like a good idea.

      SEO Quake, which I also have, only checks links through Google SERPs, does it not? I don't see anywhere that it allows you to check your own internal links.

      Mostly, I want to make sure my internal link structures are intact, which means finding a program that can 'automatically' let me know when something breaks, as opposed to having to manually run the program when I think about it.

      I'll check out the other suggestions.

      Thank you, Warriors!

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  • Profile picture of the author dburk
    Hi Sylvia,

    There is a program that I have used for many years that is designed specifically for this purpose:

    Find broken links on your site with Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM)
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  • Profile picture of the author matheusgrafix
    Originally Posted by sylviad View Post

    Occasionally, EA alerts me when one of my links is no longer working and I wonder if there's a way I can check myself for all of my links... both on site and off site.

    I used to use FrontPage's link checking feature for my site while I'm working on it, but that program isn't working well at the moment. And, it doesn't check the links once the site is uploaded.

    I'm about to make some serious changes to my sites and I know it will mean losing some links.

    What are you using to make sure all of your links are still working? Seems to me I came across something years back, but don't recall what it was.

    Thanks.

    Sylvia

    P.S.: Some of these sites are WP blogs, others are static pages.

    There is a great toolbar called Seo Quake. :p

    ps: My toolbar INt and External links analyzer stoped working, u may find that problem too, but that's temporary.

    Godbless you.
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