greenleaves
Joined: Mar 21, 2002
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Posted: 2004-Apr-02 17:27
Can someone give me some good recommendations on link checkers, both free online ones (if any) and software ones. I know about web positions one, but any others?
 Thanks
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crash
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Joined: Dec 02, 2003
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Posted: 2004-Apr-02 18:04
xenu babeee! it's the best and it's free
xenu's link sleuth
it's a download you run from your desktop - not the prettiest reports - but easy to read and covers everything you need to know about what links you have (not just html), where they work, where they don't and it provides a handy site map you can copy/paste into a page for your site
btw - don't even know the owner, just a long time user
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greenleaves
Joined: Mar 21, 2002
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Posted: 2004-Apr-02 20:16
Xenu, I knew it!
I had worked with Xenu over a year and a half ago. I tryed to remember the name, but all I could remember was that it was simmilar to an alien name.
Thank you Very much.
Green Leaves is happy
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crash
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Posted: 2004-Apr-02 20:50
sweet my work is done here [bows]
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 2004-Apr-04 09:18
[w3] w3
Never used that one.
What does it offer over and above http://validator.w3.org/checklink then?
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crash
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Posted: 2004-Apr-04 17:49
Way more info.
w3 is good for a quick check, if you just need to verify that you didn't miss something or made a minor change and want to make sure you didn't break anything in the process.
Xenu is great when looking at a new site (built by your or not) updating a site or doing anything more than minor.
The report output is HTML.
It provides multiple reports:
* Broken links, ordered by link
* Broken links, ordered by page
* List of redirected URLs
* List of ftp and gopher URLs
* List of valid URLs you can submit to a search engine
* Site Map of HTML pages with a Title
* Broken local links
* Orphan files
* Statistics for managers
The site map is my best friend. It's more than just a sitemap. It's generated with actual links and uses the page title as the link text. You can copy/paste the sitemap into your site template (instead of hand creating one). You can also see what your page titles are - for all your pages - so you can see, at a glace, where adjustments can/need to be made. I find this extrememly helpful when reviewing a new site that I did't build for SEO.
Manager Stats can be helpful as well, here's an example from a new site I'm working on:
Statistics for managers
Correct internal URLs, by MIME type:
text/html 8 URLs 34589 Bytes (33 KB) 47.06%
text/css 1 URLs 895 Bytes (0 KB) 5.88%
image/jpeg 8 URLs 30240 Bytes (29 KB) 47.06%
Total 17 URLs 65724 Bytes (64 KB) 100.00%
All pages, by result type:
ok 17 URLs 56.67%
skip external 13 URLs 43.33%
Total 30 URLs 100.00%
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g1smd
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Posted: 2004-Apr-05 20:32
I might give that one a try. I don't tend to try out new tools if the one I already use is already doing all that (I think) it needs to do.
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crash
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Posted: 2004-Apr-06 00:16
I would recommend giving it a test spin at a minimun. Betcha end up hooked 
PM me a url and I'll send you a sample report if you want
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Logan
Joined: Aug 14, 2002
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Posted: 2004-Apr-06 17:17
bah - smample reports - it takes one minute to download, install, and run a report for free.
g1smd - crash is right on. xenu is well worth the regular use i get out of it - i've been a consistent xenu user for a few years now. it is a quick download, free, and easy. Come on, give it a try ... and please let us know what you think of it.
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g1smd
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Posted: 2004-Apr-07 21:24
Oh my god !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I thought, ummm, yeah, it just checks links. Yeah. Ummm. Yawn. Big deal.
Then I read the last two posts, downloaded it, and installed it.
Jeeeeeeeeeeez. It is quick, easy to use, quick, easy to understand, quick.
The W3 site gives some slightly more interesting data on redirecting URLs, but is miles slower.
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crash
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Posted: 2004-Apr-07 21:31
HA! Told ya so
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rjmsmith
Joined: Apr 08, 2004
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Posted: 2004-Apr-08 09:49
Thanks Guys,
New to this forum, but will be regular visitor/lurker
Will now find and download Xenu - I have 6 sites to maintain 
Roger.
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Logan
Joined: Aug 14, 2002
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Posted: 2004-Apr-08 12:01
welcome to the forums Roger!!
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crash
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Posted: 2004-Apr-08 16:56
Hey Roger Welcome
Link is in the 2nd post (the underlined text)
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atebark
Joined: Apr 09, 2004
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Posted: 2004-Apr-09 17:07
i guess these threads are a bit old, but here's 2 more- last one is so-so
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator (WDG HTML Validator)
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator (average)
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crash
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Posted: 2004-Apr-09 19:28
hey atebark, good to see you too
Those are both WDG, what was the other one?
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top5ja
Joined: Jan 22, 2004
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Posted: 2004-Apr-13 14:50
any other good online link checkers? sometimes i dont want to have to launch software to check a link, i just want to drop it into a form on a website and press enter
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crash
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Posted: 2004-Apr-13 16:02
Honestly, the software loads faster than most websites - as g1smd stated, it's Quick!
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g1smd
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Posted: 2004-Apr-18 19:19
That it is; to be sure.
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