Comments on: Find broken links on your site http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2005/08/26/find-broken-links-on-your-site/ Blogs, social network sites, social software---and how to use all of these tools to become dramatically more successful Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:23:18 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Sarah http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2005/08/26/find-broken-links-on-your-site/comment-page-1/#comment-17300 Sarah Sat, 03 Sep 2005 09:42:56 +0000 http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/2005/08/26/find-broken-links-on-your-site#comment-17300 If you are actively soliciting and maintaining a links directory then Xenu can be really useful. A good site will move links over time as they work to keep the pages small and themed (and therefore valuable). That can make it hard for you to verify if your link is still on the site and still accessible from the index page. Xenu can make the job easier because it shows you what steps to take. If Xenu can't find it, neither will googlebot et al. There are also scripts to convert a Xenu sitemap into a Google XML sitemap (I wrote one of the early ones) so that you can take advantage of that new initiative. Sarah If you are actively soliciting and maintaining a links directory then Xenu can be really useful. A good site will move links over time as they work to keep the pages small and themed (and therefore valuable). That can make it hard for you to verify if your link is still on the site and still accessible from the index page. Xenu can make the job easier because it shows you what steps to take. If Xenu can’t find it, neither will googlebot et al.

There are also scripts to convert a Xenu sitemap into a Google XML sitemap (I wrote one of the early ones) so that you can take advantage of that new initiative.

Sarah

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