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A couple days ago I was using the Free Online Sitemap Generator and paid $5 to view broken links. They were listed at the bottom of the page that has all of the download links. I was able to fix them and recreated my sitemap.

Just recently I updated my sitemap and viewed the sitemap.html. I noticed a broken link in it. How come I wasn't notified I had a broken link after my sitemap finished creating?

Hello,

do you mean that you have created sitemap with online generator and it includes the link that points to "file not found" page?

The first time I used the Free Online Generator there was a link or something at the bottom of the page right below the "XML Sitemap Content" box. There was something saying I had 9 broken links. To view the broken links I had to pay $5. I paid the $5 and was then shown which links in my sitemap were broken. I fixed those links and moved on. Since then I have yet to see the same message saying I have broken links. I figured my links have been fine, until the other day when I was viewing my sitemap through the sitemap.html file I noticed my redirect page with a bad link. What I am saying is, when I create my sitemaps I was expecting to see a message telling me I had broken links. I was expecting to see this message in the same place I originally saw it before I paid $5 to view the links.

Does the online generator no longer tell you if you have broken links?

I just placed a broken link on my website. The broken link is [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]. The correct link is /contact/, singular.

I created the sitemap and the only way I can tell if I have a broken link is by scanning the HTML sitemap for "Sorry, this page is not found" buried somewhere in my sitemap.

Hi, your server is returning a 200 OK header instead of a 404 Page Not Found header so the script is unable to see this as a broken link.

You can see for yourself by entering the url into our http header viewer at https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/http-headers-viewer.html