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Freeware Link Checkers

Broken links on a web site are a big problem, but to find them can take a lot of time and effort. Therefore it is best to make use of one of these freeware link checker programs to find the broken links on your web site.

Weblink Checker

OS: Windows Status: Freeware Version: N/A File Size: 231 KB Date: 03-11-2004

When you are creating or updating your web site, its all too easy to accidentally create a broken link. Most webmasters insert external links (links to other sites) by copying them from their web browser, but they manually type in the name for internal links (links to pages within their own site). It is these internal links that are often the source of mistakes. A broken internal link can not only potentially lose you visitors and sales, but can even have an effect on your search engine ranking. Weblink Checker is a very simple tool which instantly checks your web site on your PC before you upload it to your web host. Simply select the file corresponding to your home page and the software will instantly spider your site on your PC, checking every internal link and giving you a detailed report of any problems. Weblink Checker also offers a simple link editor feature allowing you to easily repair broken links. This feature will also display all the links present in any web page and instantly replace any link. Weblink Checker is a handy tool for any webmaster - and best of all, its free! It requires no installation - just download it and run it.

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Check URL

OS: Windows 9x/NT4/ME/2k/XP Status: Freeware Version: Beta File Size: 216 kB Date: 02-04-2004

CheckURL is program to find broken links on your web site. Link verification is done on normal links. CheckURL displays the URLs list with an extended report. Also an HTML report can be produced.

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REL Link Checker Lite

OS: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP Status: Freeware Version: 1.0 File Size: 730 kB Date: 11-14-2003

REL Link Checker Lite is a free easy-to-use link checker tool to help you maintain the accuracy of links on your web site. The program will help you easily locate broken links and links containing syntactic errors.
This is the free version of a more powerful tool, Web Link Validator. This lite version is designed for casual webmasters and is only designed to check a small web site (up to 1000 links).

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Mihov Link Checker

OS: Windows Status: Freeware Version: 0.5 File Size: 243 kB Date: 11-14-2003

Mihov Link Checker is a program, that can check multiple links on the internet. It reports you each link is valid or missing, forbidden or otherwise not accessible.
Enter all the links in one text file or check each link separately for HTML server response. Or check all the links on one page, saved on your disk. You can also check live sites - just enter the site's address and let Mihov Link Checker do the work for you. Your visitors will never see '404 Not Found' error on your home page again!

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Xenu Link Sleuth

OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista Status: Freeware Version: 1.3c File Size: 532 KB Date: 11-02-2003

Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on "normal" links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time.
Additional features: Simple, no-frills user-interface - Can re-check broken links (useful for temporary network errors) - Simple report format, can also be e-mailed - Executable file less than 500K - Supports SSL websites ("https:// ") - Partial testing of ftp and gopher sites - Detects and reports redirected URLs - Site Map.

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