Posts Tagged ‘404 errors’

No matter how well you maintain your website, eventually, you’re going to have broken links. You might have moved a page, put a typo in a link or maybe someone else linked to a page on your website that no longer (or never did) exist. The end result is a visitor or search engine arriving at a page that doesn’t exist. Finding broken links within your website is simple and painless; you can either use W3C’s online link checker tool, or a more robust tool, like Xenu’s Link Sleuth, which is free and runs from your desktop. Finding broken links from other websites is equally simple, but takes a bit more work to fix them. First, you’ll have to dig through your server logs to find any 404 errors, then see which sites are linking...