Don’t fret the next time you have to check a large list of links to discover which are dead and which are live, Dead Link Checker can check your list for you in next to no time.
Most regular visitors to JournalXtra are aware of the Webmaster Marketing Tools that I compiled to make it easier to submit websites, blogs and ebooks etc.. to relevant directory, ping service and syndication sites as well as to submit press releases. Websites come and go over time and so links to them expire. Every once in a while I recheck those links, hundreds of them, for activity. If I checked those links manually by clicking them one-by-one it would take me a week or two to keep those tools up to date.
One method used to check for dead links is to use software that reads a webpage or website and attempts to load each link. Such software can be set to check links on the pages to which links on the tested page lead and to further depth if required. For example, these programs will check links on page one, links on the pages lead to by links on page one, links on the pages to which the links on page two lead and so on….
read on at How to Check For Dead Links » JournalXtra.
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