Comments on: Go on a Dead Link Hunt

By: OPENGIGA

OPENGIGA — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:33:33 +0000

very informative posts and haven’t ever think of it. thanks to share with us.

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:06:47 +0000

@Better Blogging with Michael Martine: Thank you! This was actually what I was looking for when I arrived here via Google. -=-=-=- Another good link checker to try is KLinkStatus if you are on Linux.

By: Skaldrom Y. Sarg

Skaldrom Y. Sarg — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:18:05 +0000

There is an extraordinary Plugin for Wordpress! Just amazing!
http://w-shadow.com/blog/2007/08/05/broken-link-checker-for-wordpress/

By: Steve Ferguson

Steve Ferguson — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:16:52 +0000

Please pardon the plug, but WebLight http://www.illumit.com/weblight is one of the few link checkers that is practical to use on large or complicated sites.

It’s not free, but it also identifies non-standard markup. It can save you a lot of time for $25.

By: Jess Sightler

Jess Sightler — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:03:22 +0000

Google ads won’t be hit by them unless it also pulls in javascript, so that is fairly safe.

By: Nicky

Nicky — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:58:57 +0000

Last week or so, I got to know about Xenu from John of V7N. It’s an excellent tool. It even gives a report on missed images.

By: Skaldrom Y. Sarg

Skaldrom Y. Sarg — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:38:39 +0000

Take care with ads and affiliate programmes when checking Links! Google is not amused if it got such false hits from your Linkchecker, you NEED to exclude these somehow.

Shameless plug: http://blog.oncode.info/2007/08/25/tote-links-in-einem-blog-oder-einer-website-finden/ describes how to do that with the commandline app “linkchecker”.

By: Jess Sightler

Jess Sightler — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:53:29 +0000

This is interesting. I used to author an appliction for this (called Java ALiVe!), but abandoned it a few years ago. I just started thinking about bringing it back yesterday.

Maybe now is a good time… :-)

By: Anthony Williams

Anthony Williams — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:44:53 +0000

As someone mentioned already, W3C provides a link checker. I’ve also used the one at http://www.iwebtool.com/broken_link_checker, which works on a page-by-page basis.

The beta version of wget 1.11 can also be used for this, with the –spider command-line option, but it’s not so user-friendly, being a command-line tool.

By: xlt

xlt — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:26:43 +0000

i use Google Webmaster tool. But you can’t check your links “on-a-fly” with it. So thanks for advice! :)

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:17:53 +0000

blogmunch – took the subscribe to comments button off a while ago as I had some bugs with it. Hopefully will bring it back soon!

By: Jermayn Parker

Jermayn Parker — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:24:03 +0000

Would recommend Xenu, used it at work several times and always works…

By: Anujk

Anujk — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:14:28 +0000

Hi Darren I have been a regular problogger reader… and have gathered loads of my knowledge from here… you have been doing a great job… thx for pointing out the dead link concept… m just getting started with blogging and will certainly keep track of your postings… great going :)

By: Jason Bartholme

Jason Bartholme — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:49:19 +0000

If you hav Dreameaver you can select the Results Tab, then click on “Link Checker” it will run through and tell you broken links, orphaned files and external links. Pretty slick feature.

By: Enwikopedia

Enwikopedia — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:45:02 +0000

Alex,

John’s blog is popular cos it feeds on hype and little substance. Darren’s is all substance and no hype – typical aussie.

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:33:34 +0000

For those on linux, klinkstatus seems to be a good option to check for broken links.
http://klinkstatus.kdewebdev.org/

By: blogmunch

blogmunch — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:54:50 +0000

Hi Darren,

You didn’t install the subscribe to comments plugin? Cant find the check box…

By: blogmunch

blogmunch — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:53:29 +0000

I too use Google webmaster to check for dead links. But I do not know what to do with the dead links.
I have quite a few dead links as I shift to a new domain and change the permalink structure.
I know Google webmaster has a url removal tool, but it can only remove one link at a time.
Anyone had any ideas or plugin to bulk remove these deadlinks?

By: ning

ning — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:42:55 +0000

For me ,it is easy to do.Until now,only 20 or more friend links.
But these tool are useful to check all of my blogs,thanks for advice.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:29:28 +0000

Al – I generally rewrite the post to make it make sense. Sometimes (if the post centered around the link) that means making a note of it – sometimes it simply means rewriting the post slightly and removing the link.

Alex – John and I have very very different approaches and as a result attract quite different readers.

Sheila – I try to go a on a dead link hunt every few months – but it’s getting harder and harder as my archives grow. I tend to do a month at a time.