Fix Broken Links

You know what a broken link is and how bad it can be? Well, I’ll tell you.

About a month ago, I was driving to Walker River, NV. Just wanted to see the place, as my granddad came from there. I only had a 20-year-old map of the place, and it turned out to be too old: On the way I chose, the bridge was broken quite long ago. Well, I was a bit disappointed and had to take another road.

But what if it weren’t me on the broken bridge? The Robot would try to find another way to go. But he’s not that determined to visit all your pages. In the case of a broken link, the Robot may simply leave the page not crawled.

And what is actually a broken link?

A broken link is the one having some elements incorrect or missing from the link’s HTML code, or a link that leads to a non-existing web page.

Now what you have to do is check your pages for broken links — and fix them.

DO IT NOW!

Find and fix broken links on your web pages. Upload the changed pages to your web server.

Here’s a free online tool to help you: http://validator.w3.org/checklink

Psst! There’s one secret I have to disclose at the end of Chapter 2. It tells how to discover all of your website issues in a single click. Too impatient to learn?

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