Finding 404 Errors – Great Find

January 24, 2011 by Garen
Filed under: SEO, Website Talk

( The Best Web Hosting Service )- As a lot of you might already know broken links can really hurt your site. Not just in terms of accessibility, but also in terms of SEO. True, not to long ago I had some errors on my website, and it affected my SEO immensely. Sadly I went from having 200-300 hits a day from Google down to a couple of hits a day. Wow, you talk about dropping off the map; I simply flew off the map.

Well, the root of my problem was 404 errors, which you can easily check in your Webmasters Tools. If you don’t already have this installed on your site your need to claim your site and start using it ASAP. This can show you all kinds of valuable information about your site.

Along with using Webmasters Tools, in which you can easily spot 404 errors or any other crawl errors (hell even robot crawl errors and malware), you can also submit your sitemaps, which makes it easier for Google to crawl your site. In a bit I will be posting a blog post on Webmaster Tools, but with this entry I wanted to talk about a cool site I found that will help you analyze your broken links.

This is really a webmasters dream and I highly recommend you check it out. The name of the site is http://www.iwebtool.com. Really great site for all kinds of web related stuff like, backlink checker, rank checker, link popularity, search engine position, reverse IP/Look-up, Ping Test, website thumbnails, ect. But for the life of me I can’t remember how I found broken links checker on their site, but if you go to the search and type in “broken link checker” you will be prompted to this page http://www.iwebtool.com/broken_link_checker (or just click on my link…lol)

Once you are there you can put in your domain or single pages on your domain. Pretty cool, and I do believe they have a paid subscription and everything, but really this is a great find and I highly recommend you start using it to make sure your site is all good in terms of broken links.

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