How often do you manually check your links?

Doing it by hand

[Rosalind]

Automated link checkers are pretty good for finding expired domains and 404's, but they don't catch it all. I decided to blitz my links manually for once, and found a lot of dead ones in there. Often people close a site and leave a "site closed" page, or a "site moved" page which leads to a dead one, or the content is completely altered. There's no way you could write a bot that would catch them all.

This is something I only do once in a blue moon, say every six months, but I always seem to find something so it's worthwhile. Is anyone else off to clear out the clutter?

[kodaks]

My company manually checks it's links every two months or so, and it really gets the job done.

[vkaryl]

I do this religiously once a month. I have quite a few "outside" links on a couple of sites, and it's pretty amazing how often a number of them are dead.

If I had TONS of links, I don't know that I could do this so often.... it's incredibly time consuming, of course, and by the time I'm done I usually have a stress cramp between my shoulder blades....

[buckworks]

Manual link checking is a good job for hiring teenage help from your neighbourhood. Just be sure they know to leave the links in your Adsense panels alone!

[robotsdobetter]

Once every month works for me. I also use a bot to check once every five days. If you use both of them right you can't go wrong.

[Rosalind]

I came across this:

[www-class.unl.edu...]

I wouldn't be surprised if those sorts of figures were common for all topics, not just science education.

[vkaryl]

Manual link checking is a good job for hiring teenage help from your neighbourhood.

Thankfully, I HAVE no neighborhood teens.