There many tools to found out the break links (just like xenu's) But my mean is that How can i know where is this link come from. How can i too deal with this break links!
Right. I have the same question. My recently installed Google Sitemap returned eleven 404 pages. How can I determine where the hyperlink is that directed the spider to these mostly non-existent links. I am pretty sure the originating links are all external, but where to find the culprits? What about the WayBack Machine? They have years of old dead links stored for me. Help please. Thanks.
You could try A1 Sitemap Generator. It tracks all links to and from all pages making it easy to see where broken links and redirects are coming from.
Sorry to bother you, but could you tell me which tool helped you? I need to check my web site too. Thanks, Rommix
I have never understood why bots don't send referrer headers. Surely the bandwidth savings can't be all that much... but it would help us so very much to fix broken links. As it stands, we have to wait until a normal user clicks the link and actually sends a referrer. I suppose the reason is that there's no advantage to Google to implement this. It only helps the webmasters. You could always try a Google search for "linkto: http://example.com/broken-link-here.html"