How to track and verify 301 redirects from 22 old websites to a new one?

[bernardovailati]

Me and my team have just finished a website which will replace 22 old ones (6 main domains and 16 sub-domains, 19 in wordpress and 3 in Joomla). This means more than 20,000 links that we're trying to redirect with the most granularity possible.

But we're experiencing a lot of conflicts because of the quantity and variety of links and the interference of Wordpress. And I'm having trouble finding which links are working and which aren't.

I have a URL list in a plain .txt file for every website, is there a tool that can check these links for me? I've tested many wordpress plugins, but I didn't find a good one.

Thanks!

[bernardovailati]

Oh wow, that was right there!

Thanks Shane, now I can see all my broken links

[Jinx14678]

It does follow external, and tells you if it is a redirect (you have to check the box on the open link screen)

Look into the program closer and its documentation

But like I said, if you want a very feature rich program go with screaming frog

[bernardovailati]

Thanks Shane!

I've tried Xenu. When you use the option "Check URL list" it sees that a page has been redirected and it marks it as "OK" but it doesn't follow that redirect to see if it works, and there is no option to "Check external Links" like in a regular crawl.

Do you know if Screaming Frog does a better job?

I need a crawler that:

• Reads URL lists
• Follows the redirects
• Checks the response of the website it arrived in

[Jinx14678]

Not a plain txt checker, but Xenu or Sreaming Frog, can do this and spit out a customizable report (Xenu is free, but Screaming Frog is more feature rich)

Hope this helps