Fixing broken links on your website is an essential part of regular website maintenance that significantly impacts both user experience and SEO results. Over time, links within your website content can become outdated and incorrect, leading users to error pages, which can be frustrating. Nobody wants to irritate customers and prospects with a bad user experience. Once broken links are identified, fixing them should be your next order of business.
Fix Your Broken Links Quickly With These Tips:
- Check the URL yourself to make sure it works. Sometimes a website might be slow or not working when the links are checked, but the link could be okay.
- In a web browser, type the URL and remove everything except the main part of the website address. Example: My website.com This will show you if the website is still working. If it is, the site might have changed and some URLS are different now. Search on that website or try to find the page to get the new URL, then fix the broken link on your website.
- If you’re unable to locate the page you had previously linked to and it was a very valuable resource that you don’t want to lose, contact the company or organization to ask if they have a replacement for it.
- Find a newer, better resource to link to and update your content and link to match.
- If the broken link is a page on your own website, such as a removed blog post or PDF, choose a different page or upload a new document to fix the broken link. *Be sure to have a 301 redirect placed on any internal pages that you delete. This will help prevent broken link errors in the future.
- You can also just remove the link and change the words around it, continuing without the link.
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If you’d like us to help you fix any broken links, please talk with your Account Director by using our online form.
