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Now, when a link breaks the large networks offer their own little snippet announcing that the link is dead. LS even disables the back button with it, this is why I dumped them after asking them throusand times to get rid of the annoying feature, without any reaction on their part. Will never work with them again.
Anyhoo: I tried several tools to detect the broken links (services like the one from bcentral and built-in FP 2002 included) but all they do is the following:
- return broken link error but the link works when clicking it manually
- time out too early so it results in a false alarm
- ignore a broken link (e.g. LS) because the network's snippet is not recognized as a broken link ('cause it goes somehwere, therefore: not broken = stupid)
Does anyone use a tool that detects broken links across a bigger web site (all pages) from networks like CJ and LS?
Many thanks for any help, Jens
ignore a broken link (e.g. LS) because the network's snippet is not recognized as a broken link ('cause it goes somehwere, therefore: not broken = stupid)
Xenu will also spit out the page titles of each link, from here so long as someone like Linkshare has a common title on their out of date pages/links you should be able to determine which links have expired.
<added> just found an expired Linkshare link and the title of the page was "Linkshare", valid links should spit out the merchants title and not the title "Linkshare"</added>
