I use Xenu's Link Sleuth, which is free: http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html Wendy ________________________________ Wendy Volkman Web Manager Office of Human Resources On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Megan Dushin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > We used to pay for a link-checking service to check all of our websites for > broken links (inbound, external, internal, orphaned, the gamut) and then > send weekly email reports to the specific webmaster. This enabled us to keep > link-rot away (provided we paid any attention to the reports). > > We stopped that service (expense outweighed benefit at the time), and the > need is arising again. > > What do you use to check for broken external links on your sites? I know we > can check for internal/orphaned links in Dreamweaver, but I don't know of a > free way to check all external links within a site, or of a reputable paid > service. > > Your thoughts welcome! > > Megan > > -- > Megan Dushin, Web developer/coordinator > Institute on Community Integration | College of Education and Human > Development > http://ici.umn.edu > [log in to unmask] > 612-626-8649 > >