Broken Link
What is Broken Link?
Broken link is a web-page that can’t be found or accessed by a user, for various reasons. Web servers will often return an error message when a user tries to access a broken link. Broken links are also often known as “dead links” or “link rots”. Broken Link Building (also known as Dead Link Building) is the practice of building backlinks by replacing links of 404 pages with a working link to a target website.
Examples of Broken Link Codes and Their Meanings
404 Page not found – non-existing page on the server.
400 Bad request – the URL found on a page was not understood by the host server. Timeout – HTTP requests constantly timed out.
Reset – the host server is either too busy or misconfigured, that’s why it drops the connections.
Empty – no content and no response code found; host server replies with an “empty” message.
Bad Code – Invalid HTTP response code.
Bad Host – the host name may be invalid, non-existing, or unreachable. Related ArticlesWhy are Broken Links important for SEO?How to Find and Fix Broken Links with SEOAnt?
Why are Broken Links important for SEO?
Having broken links in your website would not directly affect your SEO ranking on Google. It will not impact your overall SEO, but it can lead to the impression that your website is either forgotten or abandoned. On the positive side, Google also uses broken links to check a website's quality. Fixing broken links in your website would be better than losing your rank every time.
Since SEO's main goal is to provide users with a better experience using your website, avoiding too many broken links is also necessary. Dead links affect the engine algorithms, and users would have a wrong impression of your website. If users cannot use your website correctly due to many broken links, they will start losing interest. Related ArticlesWhat is Broken Link?How to Find and Fix Broken Links with SEOAnt?Why is Google Search Console Important For SEO?Why is Image Optimization Important?How can SEOAnt help your wesbite’s On-Page SEO?
How to Find and Fix Broken Links with SEOAnt?
SEOAnt is an application on Shopify which can help you discover and deal with this issue faster. Broken Links are not new to SEOAnt. We’ve got all the options you can try when you install our app in your Shopify account. Follow the steps below to manage your way through SEOAnt’s Broken Links feature.
Step 1. When you install SEOAnt app on your store, this is what will appear on your screen.
Step 2. Please select Broken Links. After that, you should be redirected to this page
Step 3. In Broken Links, we provide both detection and solution simultaneously. Here are the two options:
Auto Scan Broken Links - examines and detects any broken link in your website and present a result. These are the steps to do it:
- Step 1: Click the Auto Scan Links
- Step 2: The app will start scanning for broken links.
- Step 3: The results will show on the screen after a few minutes.
Auto Fix Broken Links and Email Notification- instantly repair any broken link on your website. Here’s how each of these features works: For Auto Fix Broken Links:
- Step 1: Click the Auto Scan Links
- Step 2: Scanning of all broken links on the website begins.
- Step 3: After a few minutes, all the results will show.
Note: The Auto Fix and Daily Report features in SEOAnt are available only in the Pro Plan of the app. So if you need access to these options, simply subscribe and install the app to your Shopify account. For Email Notification:
- Step 1: Enter your Email address on the empty box.
- Step 2: Whenever a broken link is detected and fixed by the app, an email is sent to you to inform you of any changes or corrections made.
To regularly check your website’s broken links, you may choose the Daily missing page report and tick the box before it. A notification shall be sent to your email that you input.
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