Check my site for 404

[journeyoftheanimals]

Is there a program or website that I can use to check my site for dead links? Been getting quite a few 404 errors and would like to track them down. Not sure if it is because of dead links on my site or dead links in search engines when I changed to Joomla.

Thank you for your reply.

[Sam]

Try this: http://validator.w3.org/checklink

[journeyoftheanimals]

Thank you. Seems according to that page it seems like my links are pretty much OK. So I am wondering if the problem is actually broken links from places like Google. Because some of the addresses of my pages did have to change when I switched to Joomla. But I tried to make it a point to put redirects on all of those pages to point to the new pages. Oh well I will keep an eye on things and if it seems that the 404 error count is still rising alarmingly then I will look into it further again. Again that you for your reply.

[Pazeh]

@ the bottom of the awstat statistics page you will see the 404 error statistics, click on the 404 link & you will see the files that generated those errors & their referrers

[terrys]

You may not really have a 404 link problem.

The last two days, I've been getting hammered with 404 errors, but very few are for true files or for my redirection script on my site. It looks like some compromised computers are attacking and trying to inject scripts via html or 404 handlers. Since I've got a custom 404 handler script, I changed it to log all the attempts so that I can see what's being requested, from where -- referrer and IP address. That's showing me the script the slimedogs are trying to inject.


I use my custom 404 script to handle redirection for convenience and for affiliate links
Terry

[Teddy Rogers]

If you have setup Webmaster Tools on Google go to Diagnostics -> Web Crawl. From there you can see errors that Googlebot has trouble accessing on your site, they include 404's...

Ted.

[SandyFish]

Google will not do that until you "verify" your site. Can you offer any suggestions on HOW I can get google to verify??? I've tried several times - I can view the html file in my cPanel & it directs me to the link. BUT, when google tries - it returns a 404 error! VERY frustrating
My site software is WYSIWYG and impossible to get a google script into the html code
THANKS!!

[striddy]

Originally Posted by SandyFish

Can you offer any suggestions on HOW I can get google to verify??? I've tried several times - I can view the html file in my cPanel & it directs me to the link. BUT, when google tries - it returns a 404 error! VERY frustrating
My site software is WYSIWYG and impossible to get a google script into the html code
THANKS!!

Google has two verification methods.

If you are unable to edit the html directly, the other option is to upload a html file. You simply create a blank file with the name google specifies and upload this to your public_html directory. Or you can use the cpanel file manager and create the text file directly on the server.

The file doesn't need any content in it. Just make sure the filename is as google supplies it. Don't forget it's case sensitive.

[SandyFish]

I have uploaded a html file into my cPanel - with the name google gave me (copied & pasted) into my "public" directory. Maybe I'll try AGAIN, directly on the server. THANKS!
The uploaded file I spoke of in the first post is "that" file. I can view it in the cPanel, but google can't "find" it.
Google makes me CRAZY!! haha

[slapshotw]

Are you sure *you* can see it in a web browser? If you can't, you didn't do it right.

[striddy]

Originally Posted by slapshotw

Are you sure *you* can see it in a web browser? If you can't, you didn't do it right.

As slapshotw said check it in a browser. Go to

www.yourdomain.com/googlefilename.html

where googlefilename.html is the exact spelling (case sensitive) that google supplied you in webmaster tools.

If whilst trying to view in your web browser it shows file not found, then try again.

Also, are you sure you created the file in the correct directory?

public_html

[paulselhi]

try these

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

http://www.dead-links.com/