Broken Links, how to find and fix?
Submitted by GarySteven on Tue, 04/29/2008 - 22:05.
Hello,
I just ran a report on one of my sites and it says it has 57 broken links.?? I went to another analyzer site and it gave about 8, and said 3 of them I must fix immediately. Well, I would if I knew how.. :)
I don't know how it got that many broken links other than it used to be a html site and I changed it to wordpress. Other than that I haven't deleted anything I can think of.
Can anyone tell me how to find and then fix broken links? The links that I put in my website that go through it internally are all working, so it must be old links or links I can't see.
Thanks,
Gary
Hi Gary: Do you have any old
Hi Gary:
Do you have any old html pages or other old landing pages that you're not thinking of? Have you gone through the files on your web-host for anything old?
Have you tried this:
http://validator.w3.org/checklink
Derrick.
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Hello Derrick
I looked on the server and I didn't see old html pages. I removed everything when I installed the blog in the root. The validator.w3.org is one of the sites I used, it says there are only 2 broken links that have to be dealt with.
For instance this url: http://hypnosis-works.net/favicon.ico I have no idea what .ico is?
and the other is a 403 page that goes to the w3 site that says page can't be accessed.
The other red marks are on the feed pages but they look like they are working. So maybe by using valiator.w3 I don't have 50 some odd broken links. My site is being crawled by google with no warnings.
I'm still a little unsure on how to fix links since I'm not sure if I'm looking at a broken link or the 404 or 403 appears because of a broken link. I guess this statement is a little vague :) anyway I will keep looking at my site for old html.
Thanks,
Gary
Gary, The favicon.ico is
Gary,
The favicon.ico is just a simple 48 x 48 image that you place in the root of your web site. Most browsers look for this file and display the picture in the address bar. You can put an simple 1 pixel image in the root and name it favicon.ico. About the 403 error, you have a link at the bottom of your wordpress theme, Valid XHTML which points to http://validator.w3.org/check/referer. Apparently your site is not valid XHTML so I would just remove it or fix the problem. The last two problems are when the validator uses the feed protocol to check your feeds. I wouldn't worry too much about these. They are only used by feed aggregators and the feed protocol is not really a standard anyway.
Cheers,
Jason Woods
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wow, thanks
Hello Jason,
Thanks for the detailed yet simple explanation. I'll look into what you suggest. I think I'll just remove it, I have enough to learn. Like how did you put a hot link to follow you on twitter on this page?
Thanks,
Gary
Gary, are you using any WP
Gary, are you using any WP plugins to find your broken links? I use "Broken Link Checker" (good name, eh?), which gives the URL of the broken links, along with the post category and link text.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-link-checker/
Moe
Didn't find the broken links.
Hello mmuise,
I installed that plugin on 3 blogs and it says there are no broken links but google says there is and shows them. Maybe I need to tweak the plugin somehow?
Thanks,
gary
Jason: Very helpful. Thank
Jason:
Very helpful. Thank you...
Derrick.
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