It takes a long time to validate all the links on your website. If you're like me and you've got a lot of other stuff on the go, checking for broken links is the last thing you've got time for. That's the reason why there's InSite from Inspyder. InSite automatically crawls a site searching for broken links, spelling mistakes, keyword density and a few other things. InSite has a ton of cool features for configuring how it crawls your site. Out of the box it checks everything but you can tweak the settings to focus on certain areas of your website.
To use InSite is easy. All you really need to do is enter in your website's URL. InSite crawls your site page by page looking for broken hyperlinks, spelling mistakes as well as more. I still can't believe some of the errors it found. Even on websites I thought were perfect it found broken links I had no idea were there. On multiple occasion InSite found a couple broken links I might not have otherwise found (they were really buried). Validating and fixing broken hyperlinks does over just help your visitors. Google uses broken links on your own website as one of the high quality indicators. More broken hyperlinks means a disused or perhaps unmaintained site. Broken links and errors tell Google that your site is in a state of disrepair (and maybe abandoned), so it gets a lower quality score which can hurt your search ranking. For anyone serious about SEO, validating the links on your site should be step 1.
Checking for broken links is more than just clicking all the links to see if they're working or not. It also involves searching for bad style sheet references, missing images, etc. InSite does all that for me, so I'm pretty confident after I've checked a site over with this tool.
If you're interesting in trying this software out, there's a free trial from their website. I really like this software and hope you'll find it useful too.
To use InSite is easy. All you really need to do is enter in your website's URL. InSite crawls your site page by page looking for broken hyperlinks, spelling mistakes as well as more. I still can't believe some of the errors it found. Even on websites I thought were perfect it found broken links I had no idea were there. On multiple occasion InSite found a couple broken links I might not have otherwise found (they were really buried).
Validating and fixing broken hyperlinks does over just help your visitors. Google uses broken links on your own website as one of the high quality indicators. More broken hyperlinks means a disused or perhaps unmaintained site. Broken links and errors tell Google that your site is in a state of disrepair (and maybe abandoned), so it gets a lower quality score which can hurt your search ranking. For anyone serious about SEO, validating the links on your site should be step 1.
Checking for broken links is more than just clicking all the links to see if they're working or not. It also involves searching for bad style sheet references, missing images, etc. InSite does all that for me, so I'm pretty confident after I've checked a site over with this tool.
If you're interesting in trying this software out, there's a free trial from their website. I really like this software and hope you'll find it useful too.
HTML link validator, hyperlink validator