Jonny from Jonnys Blog left a comment few days back on my Previous Post Broken Links Remover – A must Wordpress Plugin. He mentioned a freeware tool that can check all the broken links of any website. I took a look at that freeware software. It is a great tool to use for all the webmasters.
Xenu’s Link Sleuth is a freeware tool to check Broken Links of your website. It uses multi-threading to scan broken links. Hence, it is very fast compared to any other link checking software. Given the URL of the website, It can come up with all the broken links withe the details like title, type, size etc. It does all this pretty quickly.
How to use Xenu’s Link Sleuth
- Download and install the program
- Run the program and enter the URL of the website which you want to check
- Now it will check for all links like normal links, images, backgrounds, style sheets, scripts and java applets.
Find Broken Links of any website. Image Credit : Xenu’s Link Sleuth
After this, It will display a continuously updated list of URLs which it has scanned so far. You can sort the list based on a certain criteria. Since, it also displays the size of each page / image, you could use this tool to check any fat pages and large images and try to optimize them to reduce the page size and the load time.
It will also scan and list out all the In-bound links and Out-bound links so you know which of your pages are most linked and contain the most outgoing links. It also displays the Missing titles and Missing Alt Text for images. This way you can find out the problems and fix it to improve your SEO score.
A full report can also be generated which can be used.
I liked this tool very much because of it’s Mult-purpose usage. Its main purpose is to find Broken Links, But as you saw in above, It can be also used to find Missing Title and Missing Alt text and can be used to improve SEO score. It can be also used to find out any fat pages and large images.
If you want to improve your SEO for your Blog or Site, then do read this:
– Increase Blogs internal linking using SEO Smart Links Plugin
– How to Show different posts for Search Engine Visitors
I recommend each and every WebMasters / Blogger to use this tool and if you know any other tool. Do share it.
Download Xenu’s Link Sleuth
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looks sweet will give it a go
Donace | TheNexuss last blog post..Traffic Android Review
@Donace, Let me know whether you liked it or not…
Thanks for the mention Nihar! – Never thought to use this tool to look at page sizes…. nice thinking.
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@Jonny, I owe a big thanks… I came to know about this tool.
This is a good tool but I am wondering how does it check the broken links. Is it based on 404 response or the non existence of a domain ?
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@Himanshu, Didn’t look it that much detail. Will check and let you know.
Thanks for this post nihar.
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@Tech, hope you can find broken links and fix it via this tool
Looks like a great tool, I’ll give it a try
@Best CSS Gallery, Will be waiting for your feedback.
I must give this a try. I can just imagine how many broken links there are on my blog.
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@Lyndi, Yeah, it is better to have it installed in our desktops and use it every 15-30 days to see and fix all the broken links.
Very helpful tool. thanks for sharing it.
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@Technology Professional, Thanks..
useful for blogger blogs, but for Wordpress we have useful plugin called Broken Link Checker :d
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@Gagan, you are right. But, instead of making your wordpress blog slower by installing the plugin. We can use this tool.
Excellent tool buddy… I had somehow missed this post. Downloaded it and running my home URL. Fortunately no issues so far
@Ajith, I am glad that you liked it and also thanks for linking this post in your blog.
[...] There are a number of plugins available for internal linking and related posts linking but they are not int the scope of this post. There are also tools to check the internal link validity of sites (Please check out the Xenu link sleuth tool as reviewed by Nihar) [...]
Aa ha ; This is really an useful post.I did not know about this. Just come to know it.
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