Free Broken Link Checker
This free broken link checker is a cool service for webmasters. I found and fixed 2 broken links on my blog. I guess I’d better be a bit more careful. :)
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Tags: Broken Links, Free Tools, SEO, Technology, Webmasters
April 13th, 2006 at 3:08 am
[...] Despite testing all the main page types, we still missed a small number of pages because we did a database dump and import rather than copying an entire directory. Overall, we did what we wanted to do, and under normal usage it would have been perfect. But we forgot to check the old blog’s document root for html files and directories that were created outside of the standard WordPress administration panel and were (therefor) not in the database. The omitted pages were insignificant enough that we would not have known immediately that they didn’t work. Luckily Mike decided to use a link checker (like the free one I mention here) to verify all the links on the new site worked. Sure enough, there were some broken links to content on that should have been there, but wasn’t. So there’s a little clean up to do (even still), but chances are that none of his readers noticed. [...]