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Fix broken links with Xenu



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Are Broken Links Hurting Your Site?



Google Spot!




There’s nothing as annoying as finding a great webpage
with lots of good content – but then when you click
a link the dreaded “Page Not Found” pops up or worse yet,
nothing at all pops up.


We have all been there, done that.


However, if those broken links are on your site, then
you do have a problem.

Not only won’t your visitors be pleased but broken links,
both internal and external, are a real problem for the
search engines. These engines use simple bots/spiders
to crawl/index your content – hitting a broken link is like
going down a dead-end street.

Broken links can stop the indexing of your content
and should be fixed for this reason alone. Besides,
you want a clean site with everything working, if you
want happy repeat visitors to your site.

But there is a larger problem with broken links and it
has everything to do with the “quality” of your site.
As you probably already know, this past year, Google
launched its powerful Panda Update, this Update was
different because for the first time Google was not
just ranking an individual webpage, but your whole
site.

Panda and the countless algorithm changes since have
placed greater emphasis on the OVERALL quality of your
site and how your keywords/pages rank in Google.

So now, more than ever, the quality of your site matters.
Your whole site and not just one or two pages which
rank high.

Broken links are a sign that your site is not maintained
or up to date. If you have 10’s or even 100’s of broken
links – this will bring down the quality of your site,
not to mention, you will have a lot of unhappy campers
visiting your site.


Fix broken links with Xenu!


So you must regularly check your site for broken links
and fix them. One of the best resources I have found is
a free software called “Xenu’s Link Sleuth” and it’s very
easy to use.


https://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

Just type in your URL and this software will crawl your
site and give you a list of any broken links. Best part,
you can tell this software to only check for internal links or
you can check for both internal and external links on your
site.

It offers up a very comprehensive report which you can use.
Plus, it can also give you a Sitemap to submit to the
search engines.

So improve your site’s quality by fixing any and all broken links
– the search engines will thank you!


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Kind Regards,
Titus Hoskins

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Increase Site Quality & Rankings With This Broken Link Checker

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Increase Site Quality & Rankings With Free Xenu Link Sleuth


Will Page Quality Replace PageRank or Other Ranking Factors?


Many SEO experts and professional webmasters believe “Site Quality”
will play an even greater role in how Google ranks web pages. One
of the reasons for this belief is all the “noise” coming from Google
about Site Speed, Broken Links, Proper Coding and so on.

Actually, you don’t need to be an SEO expert to figure out that
the quality of your site and web pages are extremely important to
how well they are ranked. Search engines like Google, are only offering
up a product like any other company – in this case their product is
their SERPs or listings/links given to a search query.

These listings or links have to go to quality pages which the surfer
will use and find beneficial. If Google sends a searcher to a page
that has broken links – either internal and/or external – more than likely
that visitor will come away with a poor experience. This reflects badly
on everyone including the search engines.

Lately, Google has been making a lot of changes to its search engine,
especially with Google Caffeine which is a major overhaul of its whole
ranking system. Of course, when it comes to how Google actually ranks
pages it is very difficult to figure out the exact rules, but Page Quality
is definitely in there.

This can be measured in so many ways – Time spent on site, bounce rate,
proper coding, meta tags, content quality, keyword density… and of course
– broken links.

Broken links on any web page will lower the visitor’s experience and
produce frustration. It will bring down the quality of your web page.

Simple Solution —– Fix All Broken Links

Now if you have a small site (10-50 pages) this is very easy to do
and fix. Yesterday, using the Xenu tool mentioned here, I fixed some
broken links on 3 or 4 of my smaller sites.

However, if you have a site with 1000’s of pages this is not so
easily done. That’s where handy software can make your job easier
and save you a lot of time. If you have a large or older time it
will take more time to fix all the links.

Xenu Link Sleuth is a Free Powerful software application which you
can download and then check all your sites for broken links.
This is the best “broken-link-checker” I have found. It’s really
easy to use and it gives you a full report of your broken links.

You can download it here:

Xenu Link Sleuth



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It even gives you a report of all your broken links which you
can then fix or delete. I found this very handy and very easy
to do once you’re given all the data.

So if you want to increase the quality of your site or web pages,
use this Xenu Link Sleuth to fix all your broken links. Never no,
it may just also increase your search engine rankings.


Kind Regards,
Titus

https://www.bizwaremagic.com