Broken Links Are Bad For Your Website

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Broken links in your website can reflect badly, telling your readers that you are not up to date, and do not know what happen in your website. Imagine your readers wanting to read what you are recommending or bringing them to related content, but were not there anymore? What would your readers feel?

I am not sure what you will feel, for me I felt that this website do not know what its doing and not maintaining it properly. Is this what you felt too? This is very true for search engines like Google (especially!!!).

Why Search Engines Dislike Broken Links, Especially Google.

Google is all about relevance, giving the searchers a good user experience is one of Google’s focus. So if there are a lot of broken links in your website, Google will actually rank you lower than previous, until you do a cleanup or link to another related web page.

Google’s foundation is all about giving the internet users a good experience. If you are not able to do, your site will risk being rank down instead of up.

Broken Links: How to undo them?

There are two ways to go about, one is to manually check all your web pages and click  all the links. I must say that this will be madness if you have over 50 pages and growing overtime. I would suggest to do this if you have less than 30 web pages, its easier and better for you.

The second way is to use a software or third party to do that for you. This third party link checker is best to go checking the links at least once a week. For me, I used LinkTiger to check all my broken links. Best of all it checks daily rather than weekly, and its free!

Keeping a constant check on your website for broken links is essential to rank better in the search engines. You would not want to risk losing some of the rankings while doing your best to provide new content. Remember its all about the Internet user’s experiences, not you or your website.

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