Link monitoring tool

[masum]

what is the down site Xenu Link Sleuth? somebody please tell me, is there a good side also?

[heini]

It's an old established free tool, which can be used to monitor links. It's quite handy to use on your own sites.
I would be pretty cautious to run it over other people's sites, as many have outright banned it.

[masum]

thanks, so should I assume its a harmless tool for my own site. Somebody been using it and accessing my site quite lot 4000 only this month

[pendanticist]

Down side just as heini said. I think that's mostly because Xenu does not obey robots.txt unfortunately.

The up side is it's fast. Does tons and tons of links (it has/had no trouble processing my site for broken/redirected/moved links.

If you need a site map, the one prduced by Xenu is pretty nice. Simple to ammend for your own use. This feature is merely a byproduct.

I stopped using it some time back because so many sites have banned her and as a result of the bans, I found myself having to check too many 403 links manually and that just wasn't a happenin thang.

So, to make a long story short, I went with lithopssoft.com's HTML Link Validator and all my problems were solved. Relatively inexpensive and it does bookmarks too.

Pendanticist.

[heini]

Somebody is spidering your links and using up your bandwidth. Ban it. You can do it using htaccess. This thread will get you started:
[webmasterworld.com...]

[masum]

thanks a lot, great help

[nakulgoyal]

Thanks. This was great piece of help to me tooo.

[Brett_Tabke]

like a lot of tools, just remember that the search engines absolutly loath these types of programs and are hyper proactive in snuffing them out.