10 Tools to Help Minimize the Broken Links on Your Site

20 Mar 2010

Broken links are one of the main reasons visitors arrive at a site only to never return again. When you’re reading content on a website (especially a blog) and you’re referenced with a link, your first thought is usually to click on it (dependent on how “click-enticing” it is). Right?
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But what if that link points nowhere? Wouldn’t that be frustrating? Boken links can ultimately affect your Google PageRank. This can be devastating to some who are more “obsessed” with how well their site ranks.

Below we’ve outlined 10 tools that will help prevent chaos with the links on your site. Let us know which of these work best for you, and if we’ve missed any.

iWebTool’s: Broken Link Checker

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This tool allows you to check the validity of broken links throughout the URL you specify. You can also click on the “How do I use this tool?” link and you’ll get a pretty straightforward tutorial on how to effectively use this iWeb tool.

LinkTiger

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LinkTiger.com hunts your website for broken links 7 days a week, 365 days a year! When errors occur, you will be the first to know. You’ll also get a quick overview of the status of your website(s) with a professional dashboard and drill down to more detailed information with canned reports or create rich custom reports that fit your needs.

AddMe.com Link Checker

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The link checking tool is designed to identify any broken links (404 errors) within your website. The link checking tool will crawl your website and build a detailed report outlining any broken links you may have on the web site. After the link checker has completed we will email you a link to the completed report.

Link Patch

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LinkPatch lets you add assign a unique javascript tracking code. Simply copy/paste that code onto the bottom of your website’s custom error pages. Fix the broken links or setup a redirect from the broken URLs to new ones.

W3 Link Validator

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This Link Checker looks for issues in links, anchors and referenced objects in a Web page, or recursively on a whole Web site. For best results, it is recommended to first ensure that the documents checked use Valid (X)HTML Markup. The Link Checker is part of the W3C’s validators and Quality Web tools.

LinkAider

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Setup and monitor your websites with LinkAider with a few clicks. Our web crawler checks your website’s consistency on a scheduled basis so you don’t have to worry about lost pages or daily check by hand if your site is available. LinkAider’s crawler can help you discover broken links, server errors and more.

IT-India Link Checker

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This is another free tool for webmasters to find dead / broken links on their websites. With this free broken link checker seo tool you can find links that don’t work anymore or give 404 not found errors.

Site Link Analyzer

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This tool will check your web page for broken links / objects and ensure your web site is 100% perfect and spider friendly.

Webmaster Toolkit: Link Checker

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This Link Checker will read the page you specify, extract the links from it and test the status of each one. If any errors are found (broken links) these are reported.

2bone Link Checker

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The LinkChecker will scan the URL of the page that you input, and find any links to other sites. Next it will check each of those links to see if they’re still ‘good’ active links, and then report the findings back to you. All you had to do was enter the URL and press the button.

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Tags: broken link checker, broken urls, canned reports, custom error, google, google pagerank, iwebtool, link checking, reading content

4 Responses to 10 Tools to Help Minimize the Broken Links on Your Site

Jeff B

March 23rd, 2010 at 1:07 pm

Here's one way to do it…

Create a NumRecords formula and a SumRecords formula, add them to the Detail section of the report, and then suppress them.

The NumRecords formula should be something like this:

//
if IsNULL({TABLE.COLUMN})
then 0
else
if {TABLE.COLUMN} = 0
then 0
else 1

The SumRecords formula should be something like this:

//
if IsNULL({TABLE.COLUMN})
then 0
else
if {TABLE.COLUMN} = 0
then 0
else {TABLE.COLUMN}

Now create a new formula for each section footer and report footer for which you want to display the average. The formulas should be something like these:

– group1
{group1}) / {group1})

– total
/

Don't forget to add logic to check for "divide by zero" conditions.