Find Broken Links On Your Blog Or Web Site
Every Little Helps?
Don’t assume that just because you are using Wordpress, or some other blogging tool that there are no broken links on your site. I don’t want to sound like an ad for a shop named after Tessa Cohen, but I am assuming that removing broken links from a site is a good thing.
Google, the search engine we all rely so heavily upon, (for the moment), probably notices the number of broken links on a site and for all we know this forms part of its alogorithm for determining ranking.
Get The Free Link Sleuth Tool
Link Sleuth is a desktop application – you have to visit the author’s website, and download the installation, install it, and then run it from your computer.
All you do is provide a URL to check, and it will list all the links that lead from that main URL checking each as it goes for broken-ness. Then it’s up to you to fix the broken links for yourself. You of course would use Google’s Webmaster Tools to check all was well some days later.
I ran the Sleuth tool on this web site and, because I had mucked about with a couple of posts, then moved them, I had three broken links buried in the code somewhere. Use Link Sleuth, a free tool written by Tilman Hausherr from Germany.
Tilman really doesn’t like Scientology or cults – he has long articles about these and other related subjects on his web site which you might find interesting . . .
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