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WrigleyF
2011-05-10, 07:07 AM
What's the best way to figure out which link on your website is broken?

dan
2011-05-10, 03:30 PM
A quick way to check for broken links is the w3c validator link checker

W3C Link Checker (http://validator.w3.org/checklink)

Will check all links on your site including links to images, css, javascript, redirects, etc... and report back with header status codes

suwunk
2011-05-10, 09:17 PM
I`m agree W3C Link Checker is a great tools, alternatively you can also use a software such as Xenu. Xenu is fast, multi-threaded, can be set to ignore certain types of links, works well on a large site with a large number of outgoing links and/or internal links, as you choose. It generates a report as an html page which makes it useful for editing/repairing your site once it locates the broken links.
Find broken links on your site with Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) (http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html)