Broken links are a pain in the backside – for one broken links are a waste of link strength, not to mention what a bad user experience they are. Integrity for Mac users is a cool little tool.
Unless you enjoy clicking every single link on your site followed by the back button, then you’ll need to use a website crawler like Integrity!
This is a free desktop tool for mac seo and website designers that spiders your website and picks out broken links. It will also extract URLs from a website to a CSV.
It’s perfect for checking a small site once complete for any broken links or missing images without having to dig through it manually.
4/5 Stars
Jun 22, 2010 by Shaun Anderson
★★★★
Great little FREE tool to check for broken links, and quite a bit more, for mac users. I would have given this a 5 but it seemed to hang on a few much larger sites. It ran very quickly though on my Mac Book Pro – you can’t complain at the price.
Note – Integrtity is Donationware.
Apparently it can generate an XML sitemap suitable for submission to Google too, and check a site for unique page titles. Apart from this, for seo, you can see at a glance links with 301 redirects, or canonical issues, or even old links to dev servers etc.
Another great addition is the ability to actually see at a glance your most linked to pages and how many links EXACTLY they have, and from where.
Not bad at all. A no brainer especially for Apple Mac designers.
If you are a PC user check out an alternative: Xenu Link Sleuth.
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Looks like a good, extremely easy to use little program. As a Windows user I use GSiteCrawler but the options and interface make it quite a bit more complicated to use. Link Sleuth seems to be the most popular in the industry so I think I’ll give it a try and compare.
ah broken links – how often are these over looked in a SEO campaign. This looks like a great tool, I gave it a quick spin today and seems very simple. While your at it you might also want to check out our free web based broken link checker: http://www.addme.com/link-checker.htm it’s been in development for sometime now – we’re also including a heap of other great SEO and domain info as well! Cheers
Amazing tool. After the good reviews i tested it and it had showen really good results. Just try it!
Great find. Any idea if it will run on the iPad? Had a look over at over at Shiela’s site but there’s no mention (I know I could email her but I’m impatient! :) ).
Great tool.. combine this with google webmaster tools and you can have a very healthy web site. This looks very useful and I can even have clients use it to save myself some time from having to fix their links. Thanks for sharing Shaun.