>hi!
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>does anyone know a software/utility/webservice that checks deadlinks on your site? we want to prevent any dead links in our site once our company launch the 2nd version of our website. any help would be appreciated!
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This place offers a service, but it's not cheap
http://www.netmechanic.com/maintain.htm

If you want to produce your own utility, the programming language Rebol is very useful. It is small, quick, relatively easy to use & free. Their manual even gives an example of using Rebol to check the validity of links on a web page - see section 8.3

http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-13.html