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I’ve found a reasonably good free spider for checking for dead links, www.dead-links.com. When I told it to spider my main site www.coker.com.au it worked well and informed me of several dead links that I fixed. When I told it to spider my blog it reported an error 404 and didn’t give any useful output. Strangely it was able to display a thumbnail picture of my main blog page that correctly had all data.

I was wondering if it didn’t like WordPress so I tested it out on Chris Samuel’s blog [ www.csamuel.org ]. It seemed to have no problems with his blog, so I suspected that it was the request time. I reduced the number of blog posts shown on the front page of my blog to 1 to speed things up (which resulted in my page loading faster than his) but still the dead-links.com spider didn’t like me.

I now suspect that it’s something related to me using WordPress 2.2. I would be interested in feedback from other people who try checking their blogs for dead links, whether they are using WordPress 2.2 or something else.

In any case it’s a useful service and I recommend using it.

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