Xenu Link Sleuth Created for the 2010 IAGenWeb Coordinator’s Conference by Ralph Leonard III

Why Use Xenu?  Quality control of your site – eliminate your broken links  Xenu is the fastest, most complete software of its type available  Xenu is free!  Download and FAQ’s link

Presentation Objectives  To demonstrate the use of Xenu Link Sleuth to find broken links on a site.  To identify the types of broken links and how to find their location on a site.  To demonstrate how to repair broken links.

Types of Broken Links  Graphics – A graphics link may be used for a background picture, page divider, or to show and/or link to a photo.  Navigational – A navigational link allows a researcher to move from page to page or within a page on your site, or to an off-site page, or to create a specific .  Code – A code link exists only in the code, and although it has no effect on researcher experience, you may want to delete these from your site.

Link Examples  View some graphics links on a page. View  View some navigational links on a page. View  Code links usually end in.mso or.xml. These are links that are created by Microsoft software and are basically an unnecessary annoyance. Deleting these should not affect your page.

A Look Into Xenu  Settings Settings  Check your site Check  Analyze the results Analyze

The Final Step  Finding and fixing those broken links! Finding and fixing

Xenu Link Sleuth  This ends the presentation.