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Linkbot Overview

Background on Site Management

Experienced Webmasters and authors know that site maintenance is an essential part of the Web development process. Pages quickly become stale and links become severed. As Web sites grow in size, maintenance problems will increase exponentially. It is virtually impossible to maintain a quality site without the aid of site management tools.

Checking a site for errors is not a one-time event. Internal links must be scanned every time the site is modified. External links should be checked every day because the Webmaster never knows when a target site may change and break the link. Other maintenance activities, such as scanning the site for stale content and bloated files, should be done on a weekly or monthly basis, depending on the size of the site.

Linkbot Contains all the Tools Webmasters Need to Maintain an Error-Free Site:

BASIC FEATURES BENEFITS
Uses a high performance multi-tasking engine. Allows for extremely fast analysis of large sites.
Checks for broken internal and external HTTP, HTTPs and FTP links. Isolates all broken links on a site.
Checks for broken anchors Ensures that all bookmarks on your pages are working.
Checks for unused (orphan) files. Allows you to clean out old unused files from your Web server.
Checks for stale content. Pinpoints pages on the site that may be out dated.
Checks for slow pages. Finds large pages that may be slow to download.
Checks syntax of "mailto" URLs. Finds "mailto" references that may be invalid.
Checks for pages with missing titles. Allows you to find and repair pages that are missing titles.
Check for missing image attributes Locates images missing ALT, height and width tags.
Filters URLs from the analysis. Specifies areas of the site that Linkbot should not check.
MAPPING AND
ORGANIZATION
 
Maps out the structure of site in an "Explorer" style interface. Allows Webmasters to interactively explore the organization of a site in a familiar interface.
Shows links in and out of a selected URL. Makes editing bad links easier by showing all the links that are pointing to a selected URL.
Sorts the site’s URL list by title, description, author, size, last modified date and type. Isolates pages with missing titles, finds all the documents published by a specific author, finds old or new files, finds large files with slow download times.
Provides advanced filters for viewing subsets of a site's contents. Makes it possible to view and organize smaller subsets that contain thousands of URLs.
MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR  
Provides built in HTML editing. Edits and repairs problems within Linkbot’s interface.
Re-checks specific subsets of URLs on a site. Enables Linkbot to check targeted groups of URLs e.g. all broken links to external sites.
Allows Webmasters to export results to a delimited file. Allows the results of Linkbot’s analysis to be exported to a file and then imported into a database.
HTML
REPORTS
 
Create twelve customizable HTML reports. Summarizes the site's problem areas and statistics. Automatically generates detailed reports on broken links, pages missing titles, links missing attributes, broken pages, warnings, orphaned URLs, and on new, old and slow pages.
WORKGROUP FEATURES  
Creates reports listing the site's problems by author. Makes it easier for authors in a workgroup to repair the problems in their pages.
AUTOMATION/SCHEDULING  
Automates maintenance with customizable scheduling options. Allows Linkbot to be programmed to turn itself on, check a site and produce a report.
NETWORK FEATURES  
Supports robots.txt Stops Linkbot from spidering into specific areas of the site.
Accepts cookies Allows you to simulate a browser that would accept cookies.
Advanced filters Customize the Linkbot search by specifiying which areas of the site it should check.
Works from local disk or remote server. Allows Linkbot to check files on non-Windows Web servers even though the client is Windows-based.
Supports proxy servers and authenticated requests. Allows Linkbot to check external links outside a company firewall and pages that require user names and passwords.

 

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