Automatically check links to my site that point to existing URLs?

Question

Is there a tool to automatically search my site and check all links? I hate working with bad urls.

Answer 1

Xenu link sleuth is excellent (and free)

Answer 2

w3.org checklink

Answer 3

If I were you, I would check the W3C Link Checker .

Answer 4

Something like this should work: http://www.dead-links.com/

Do Google searches do a "404 check" or "bug fix"

Answer 5

I have used Xenu Link Sleuth in the past. It crawls your site and tells you which links point to nowhere. This is not a super fantasy, but it works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu%27s_Link_Sleuth

There are a number of other products on the Wikipedia page.

Answer 6

Webhttrack

It may take a long time to go through a large website (I archived a 250 MB website and it took about 2 hours - it was not local though) It has a log so you can easily track 404s.

Answer 7

Also check out Google’s webmaster tools.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

They give you the opportunity to see the 404 that GoogleBot detects when it crawls your site (along with many other things).