Site wide external links analysis tool?
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Hi Guys,
I just got a remove url email from someone asking us to remove their link. What website or tool is best to see ALL of your external links sitewide from your website? And as a bonus, columns of "nofollow" and "follow".
Thank you!
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Thank you. Just signed up for a month.
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Screaming frog is awesome but deepcrawl.co.uk is amazing if you wanted to find the URLs that are 404 or external, broken, you name it it will do it very quickly and on a massive scale.
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Thanks. I'll check that out.
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That's awesome Chris.
Just for this particular search, I found
http://www.brokenlinkcheck.com/broken-links.php. AMAZING to say the least. Luckily i was able to find a page on my site that had a ton of comment spam. Luckily one of those external links were resulting in a 404. With the help of this website, i deleted all webspam. PROPS
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Try Screaming Frog if you haven't already. Great tool!
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