Internet Marketing Tycoon

**mattheyes** · 06-28-2006, 12:49 PM

First of all, is it true that dead or broken links can hinder you SE performance?

I administer a large web based directory and am looking for a few shortcuts. Instead of hunting page-by-page for dead, broken, redundant links, I am sure there will be a nice free webmaster tool or utility that will speed this up.

I've looked at this link checker here - http://www.siteowner.com/badlinks.cfm - which gives you the destination URL of the broken link. However, it doesn't tell you on which page the link appears or any other useful info.

After some Googling I see W3C have a tool, which is quite nice (available at http://validator.w3.org/checklink).
The big 'BUT' there, however, is that it doesn't seem to check dynamically pulled links. I.E. links pulled from the database are not picked up on.

Can anyone recommend a decent free utility??? Any help would be appreciated...

**XpIndia.Com** · 06-28-2006, 04:31 PM

Try this also http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

Its free and written in c, so very fast and good. I use this one.

**mattheyes** · 06-29-2006, 08:33 AM

I've just given Xenu a try. When it's identified a broken link, is there anyway of finding the location of that dead link? It would be nice if it could tell you the file name where the dead link is located. Is this possible?