Do all your web pages link correctly? |
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| Written by YCS admin |
| Friday, 17 July 2009 10:42 |
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Instead of going through every menu item and every link on your site why not get a robot to check for you? There are a number of ways to check link integrity and one of the best is WC3 Link Checker. Go to this site and type in the URL and the whole site will be checked and it only takes seconds. The results returned allow you to see both valid and broken links. For an average site I would suggest leaving all of the checkboxes unchecked except the "Check linked documents recursively, recursion depth" which i would set to 10. What this means is, that the checker will follow links recursively from within your site down to a level of 10 sub levels. This should suffice for most website installations. Reports come out in a line by line format and you can see on any line what the error was and what the link was. Going back to the page where the bad link is reported is quick and easy for you then. Why should you check your links? Well, Google and other search engines hate links that are broken. so if you are running a dynamically run website with internal links submitted by external users you should be checking your links often and fixing them as they crop up. Now, go check your site for bad links. |
| Last Updated on Monday, 30 November 2009 14:35 |