Exercise 1
Scanning Your Site For the First Time
Linkbot can be started just like a browser by simply entering a URL
into the Address box and pressing return.
Linkbot then provides two ways to view the results: graphically in
an "Explorer style" interface (shown below) or in an HTML report (shown in Exercise 6).

Depth of Linkbot's Search
After the analysis is initiated, Linkbot will scan your entire site
and check the links between each URL. For external URLs, Linkbot will only check that the
link from your site is functioning, it will not branch onto another site and check its
links as well. Linkbot will only branch further on URLs with the same base address (e.g. http://tetranetsoftware.com/) as the one you
entered to start the analysis.
Note: It's also possible to customize the depth of
the search and to filter specific URLs from the analysis. More on this in Exercise 13.
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