Xenu is a free tool that can reveal your dead links.
Dead or Broken Links
Xenu can help you determine your broken or dead links within the pages of your website. Even if you think you are careful. A quick scan will reveal link rot that you would have never known if not for this tool.
Types of broken links can be:
- Poorly installed graphics
- Links to websites or pages that have died
- Wrongly formatted links
Many folks think that Google webmaster will tell them about link problems. This can be true but it has proven time and again to be a poor measure of broken links.
Other Uses For Xenu
Xenu is nice that it will export a report into your internet browser or an excel format. It will also produce sitemaps in an html and sitemap.xml format for Google, Bing and Yahoo.
SEO and XENU
The bottom line is that a fix of your link rot can be the small fix that makes all the difference in a rise in your rankings. It is another example of an increase in human user experience can help in the SERPS.