Error 404?
Broken links are not only bad from the user's view, but also damages your site's search engine visibility, as Google discourages broken links and downgrades your SEO reputation accordingly. You should avoid links to broken content and also avoid having pages on your site that are not working.
404 Watch API's Features:
- Optionally can respect nofollow attributes on hrefs.
- Check external links.
- Discard query and hash parameters.
- Check images/js and CSS files for broken links.
- Whitelist and exclude domains from checking.
- Trigger a callback URL, when the link checking is done, or you may optionally poll the results for results.
Whitelisting domains You may have multiple domains that is served from a single site, and need to treat them as internal resources. Excluding domains and URLs from checking You may wish to exclude some specific domains from link checking for any reason. Callback when finished Link checking is a time consuming job. As you may have multiple hundreds of URLs (and asssets) on your site. So we have chosen an asyncronous approach.