Comments on: Site Optimization: Checking Loose Links

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 17:18:08 +0000

Pages not found are not good for anything, especially visitors. Who cares about page rank when navigation on your site might suck? Seriously. If you have posts you have deleted, time will take care of that with search engines. If you changed custom taxonomies and post types – post types won’t change anything, taxonomies might. Again, let time and a good XML Sitemap (there are a couple of Plugins that generate these automatically for you) will help. If you are running a cache Plugin, clear it. If you changed the name of a post, did you change the slug? If you did, again, time is your friend.

I’ve found all kinds of gimmicks for search engine ranking and such, and again, time is always your friend. Use it. Things will fix themselves automatically with time.

By: Ziyan-Junaideen

Ziyan-Junaideen — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 18:43:16 +0000

I have a problem with my site. I have about a dozen 404s and how bad is it for site rank? Some of them belong to posts that I have deleted. Some of them because of custom taxonomies and post types etc.

What do I do about posts that have been deleted or renamed? I heard about a plugin to monitor changes in slug and re-direct old URL to the new one. Have you come across any thing similar?

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By: Kamal Hasa

Kamal Hasa — Tue, 04 May 2010 11:51:36 +0000

Well with the Broken link checker plugin for WordPress it aint full time job for me though

By: Liverpool 360

Liverpool 360 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:32:54 +0000

We used a link checker plugin, but it caused more problems than it fixed. google sitemaps and webtools is good for checking broken links. It’s the broken links from externals sites that you can’t fix!

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By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:53:15 +0000

What kind of database are you talking about? MySQL? Access?

I don’t know how to answer this because the links in your database, whatever type it is, can be stored in a hundred different ways. How you export that data is based upon the database and how the links are stored.

Contact the developers of the database and ask them how to export the data, and then you can use a variety of online tools for verifying the validity of the links.

By: hemant

hemant — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:39:31 +0000

Hi All,

I am having links in database and want to chk the links are working or not i tried many software but not able to chk all the links is there any software which takea the links from database or txt files and chk the links.

Plz help me out.
Hemant