I watched three of my friends today. I was sitting next to them, but it was like I wasn’t even in the same room. They were talking about music, and a band I had never heard of. And as I was listening, I just couldn’t focus on the four of us. My mind was drifting away, to a place, where I was among people who talked about blogging. They were using words like; wordpress, return on investment, and website optimization. And, not title of songs I had never heard of. We were watching the statistics on my blog. We were laughing, pointing and discussing; how on earth I had managed to get close to 1,500 broken links on my site.
Then, one of my friends, asked me what songs I am listening to at the moment, and my mind went totally blank. I am listening to music all the time, but I just couldn’t think of any songs. There was a broken connection at that moment, between my friends and I, and that’s probably why I kept thinking about why I needed to fix the close to 1,500 broken links on my site.
My friends were still talking, and I was watching them, thinking about what a broken link really is. And how important it is to fix them not just on my site, but in real life as well.
- Category: Link Building
- Tags: Broken, links, site, statistics
3 Responses to “Fixing Broken Links – Why and How” Leave a reply ›
It’s true that broken links can hurt your website that’s why it’s important that you check and fix them regularly. It’s nice that you mentioned a tool, the “Broken Link Checker” as some of my friends also find it really helpful. By the way, I love the comparison made.
Fixing broken links is very important as these could determine how your website ranks. Luckily, there are pretty cool software that would make the process easy these days.
The comparison made on this post is thoughtful. It further helps one get clearer picture on why and how fixing broken links are important to marketer.