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7 Things You Can Do With Xenu Link Sleuth
SEO News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Published: Oct 20, 2008 - 09:24 am
Story Found By: kevgibbo 1209 Days ago
Category: SEO
"Xenu is a highly valuable tool (that’s another great exception from the rule: it is both free and awesome). Let’s see how we can use it for SEO purposes"
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from MarcoVittigni 1209 Days ago #
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very comprehensive analysis of Xenu Link

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from bnownlater 1208 Days ago #
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I was using it for just to check broken links. I will be using it to do some internal linking analysis. Great tips, worth the read.

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from IncrediBILL 1208 Days ago #
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XENU Link Sleuth is actually kind of lame and "sleuth" shouldn’t even be in the name.It misses a bunch of stuff such as:- Soft 404s on hosting companies and control panels that return a 200 for "Site no longer available" and are only detectable by title, page content or page name. I have over 300 profiles of these types of pages I scan, it’s a big list.- Sites that have changed ownership now in domain parks, porn or worse. I have a couple of hundred profiles of these types of sites too.- Sites that have been infected with thousands of BH links, malware or worse. I have about 100 profiles of the various types of links and scripts on these sites, not nearly enough.And a few other things, many which could be affecting how your page(s) or even site is being ranked because of the junk you’re linking out to that the Link Sleuth doesn’t sleuth at all.

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from martinibuster 1208 Days ago #
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Hey Bill, you’re spot on with those observations and to add to the list, Xenu does not obey robots.txt. Thanks for coming on and pointing these things out. If the comments section was all backslaps sans analysis then this place would be DULL. So thanks for keeping things lively and informed. :)However to be fair, this article was about what Xenu CAN do, not what it CAN’T do. The article has some good tips in there about this old school app. It’s an oldie but a goodie. Good stuff.

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from JohnHGohde 1208 Days ago #
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Lame maybe, but definitely worth using until something better comes along.Xenu defintely has problems and requires that you setup the options correctly.I did notice a bunch of those columns during my last bout with Xenu. Will have to take another look at some of the options that were pointed out in the article.Hey, maybe SEOmoz is using Xenu?  With Xenu, can I spy on you?

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