We check and settle in a minute all the broken links on the blog / website
With the passage of time, the number of blog entries / static pages increases more and more, and keep them under control can become a rather expensive operation in terms of time.
Actually it would be always a good habit to revise their old pages, because there will always be something new to add, or there will be that little misspelling that, if correct, help to give that extra touch of professionalism.
On the other hand, one of the problems arising from the passage of time, is the “breaking the link”, what is commonly called in English broken link.
At the moment, there are certain clues about the penalty in terms of SEO Google, if a spider finds broken links, but surely that can not be good arrange to your site.
Just think of a person who, seeing the link to that resource linked in your article, you click on it and see a bell'ERROR 404 – Page not found, or there is a picture in the article that does not actually exist, and instead of this you will see a beautiful X, not pleasant uch, not true? Personally, if I see a page with a link to an image not working, I do not have a very good impression, probably because the pages are not treated, or even have been written with superficiality.
To remedy this you can proceed in two ways:
wordpress –> use of a plugin
STATIC SITE / DYNAMIC NON WORDPRESS –> software
In the first case is a must Plugin Broken Link Checker .
Once copied to the server and installed WordPress, will be sufficient to activate it and click LINK CHECKER under Settings.
Settings broken link checker, click to enlarge
As you can see from this picture, you can make it work in the background every few hours, and you can automatically make him “, on a” the link with a line, to indicate to the reader that the link is no longer functioning.
In alternative, Tools –> Broken Links, You can examine and edit to correct problems related post.
If you do not use WordPress, can come in handy software.
In the case of Windows, c’è l’ottimo Xenu.
Xenu, controlla i broken links, click to enlarge
Sufficient to type the address of the site, Click on OK and wait (several minutes) that the program trutta controls the structure of the site in question.
The links will be broken smotrati in red, links operating in the green.
Update 6 May 2009:
Un'alternativa per Linux è Klink Status, downloadable this address.
For Apple users, there is a freeware Integrity for OSX
And you keep an eye on the health of your internal and external links?