Using Xenu Link Sleuth to Spot and Improve External Links in a Domain - The Process of Crawling
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The moment you press "OK" in Xenu's Starting Point where you input the domain root to be analyzed, Xenu will start crawling the website.
You can then see the table format showing the ongoing results of the crawled URLs. The most important section is the "Status" column, where you can distinguish the difference between internal and external links in your domain.
External links are labeled "skip external," while internal links are labeled "OK," "Timeout," etc.
It is highly important that you not stop or pause the crawling process, as doing so can possibly corrupt the data being gathered. The progress of the work can be displayed in the lower part of the screen.
When the crawling process has been completed, it will display 100%, for example: 3020 of 3020 URLS (100%)
Important: after crawling, Xenu will ask you (using a dialog box) if you want a report. Just click "NO."
Another important thing to do is to save Xenu after it reaches 100% completion. To do this, click File, then "Save As," and then choose whatever name you like.
In the screen shot above, the green lines show internal links while the blue ones labeled "Skip External" are the links going out to other domains.
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