WordPress: How to Maintain and Track Links
There are useful blogging tools available on the internet that can be used to maintain the links in your WordPress.com blog and keep close track of them.
Here are some you can use free of charge:
Put your website or weblog home page URL in the input box and a little spider will read the html code and check for the broken links.
The spider splits links in two categories, internal, from the same host, and external, outgoing link to different domains.
Once you have put your start URL the bot will visit your website and follow all links checking for their status. When finish you will see a report showing all the bad links found, not only 404 status.
Note: the spider doesn’t crawl links inside frames or javascript or flash.
Put your website or weblog home page URL in the input box and a little spider will read the html code and check for the broken links.
The spider splits links in two categories, internal, from the same host, and external, outgoing link to different domains.
Once you have put your start URL the bot will visit your website and follow all links checking for their status. When finish you will see a report showing all the bad links found, not only 404 status.
Note: the spider doesn’t crawl links inside frames or javascript or flash.
Reciprocal Link Checker (Beta Version)
Put in the first field the link to search for (the link towards your site).
Second, input in the textbox the listing of the websites where you have done link trades. The spider will crawl one by one each of this addresses looking for links towards your website within your’s link partners html code.
You must put the exact address where your link should be found.The crawler doesn’t follow links inside frames, javascript, flash or going through server script.
Link Valet is a WWW Link checker. When you enter the URL of an HTML page on the Web, it will fetch the page, and print a report on it. Link Valet will also spider your site. When a link references another HTML page at the same site and hierarchy as the URL, Link Valet will recursively follow the link and prepare a similar report on the page referenced.
Each page report includes a summary of all links from the page. These include a brief description of the link. Links are highlighted if there is any condition that you might wish to investigate.
Welcome to Who Links to Me — for the stats-obsessed blogger.
Have a weblog or website? Click here to get the link code.
Here’s a sample of the kind of results Who Links to Me tracks and displays for you:
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Wow, what a great service! I was thinking of going through my blog and doing a clean-up, but was always daunted by how much work it must be. I’ll try these out for sure.
Comment by ian in hamburg — March 13, 2008 @ 9:14 am
It’s actually very easy to use these tools. You type in a url and VOILA! the software does the work for you.
Comment by timethief — March 13, 2008 @ 9:17 am
Coolness! I hadn’t heard of these sites. Thanks. You’re way more useful than Lorelle these days.
Comment by Dave — March 14, 2008 @ 8:17 am
I could never be more useful than Lorelle, silly. I think she virtually wrote the codex and her blog is like a wordpress encyclopedia.
Lorelle is way above me. My experience comes from only answering over 7,000 questions on the wordpress.com forum where beginners well, begin … and beginners ask very basic questions.
I’m really glad I found these tools because I use them quite frequently now to keep on top of the links situation. This is a baby blog that doesn’t have many incoming links yet but, due to the kind of blog that it is it has many outgoing links that are in use everyday. I want to keep on top of finding any links that are “broken” and have a chance to fix them so I’m not mis-directing others.
P.S. I appreciate your encouraging words very much.
Comment by timethief — March 14, 2008 @ 12:26 pm
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