I'm hunting for Broken Links
Published on April 4, 2016
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My non-WA blog has been running for awhile. I have recently moved it from a wordpress.com site to a self-hosted. I'm busy at the moment revamping it, and pimping it up a bit so that I can monetize it,
Part of the tidy-up has lead me to check for broken links.
Phew - there are quite a few.
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I tried an online tool (http://www.brokenlinkcheck.com/) and this returned an excellent list of broken links, along with the page, and even showed in the source code where the link was. However, there was no easy way to export the list.(I even tried scraping it, but the site owners had set it up so that you had to enter a code manually before you got results - this prevented scraping with a tool such as google sheets.)
I installed a WordPress plugin, but I'm a little cautious as I have heard that this can slow the site down a lot.
Now I'm testing with an installed app called Screaming Frog...
I'll let you know how it goes...
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