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By: Geoff Young

Geoff Young — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 05:15:53 +0000

Perfect — exactly what I needed. Thank you!

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:43:10 +0000

I explain this thoroughly in Site Optimization - Checking Loose Links, but the simple answer is to run your pages through link checking utilities and services. These will often tell you if the link is completely dead, redirected, and if the move is temporary or permanent. If redirected and permanent, then change the link to the new location. If completely dead, and you still want to link to that or similar material, hit the search engines to find a replacement. Many sites change the programming code, going from ASP to PHP, or they change their structure in some way. They may or may not have included all the redirections, or removed them because they were old, in their .htaccess file, so a simple search would turn up the current URL. Just copy and paste the right one in and it's done. It's tedious, and brain numbing, but it's part of the process.

By: Geoff Young

Geoff Young — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:29:10 +0000

Long-time lurker, first-time poster. Great list, Lorelle! I’m curious about broken external links: What process do you follow to identify those and how do you go about fixing them? Simple removal, or do you try to figure out if they’ve moved to a different location?

By: Clair

Clair — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:52:58 +0000

I stumbled upon your blog and this entry reminds me to check if I do have broken promises. I need to check them. What a timely read for me!

By: http://crabapple.cc

http://crabapple.cc — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:15:49 +0000

Site Under Construction: Things Left Undone

The reason there’s no “Beta” anywhere on the site. That’s just the Web 2.0 “Under Construction” graphic.

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:04:41 +0000

Thanks for the backup reminder, Lorelle! I just went and did one and now I feel better. I have wordpress.org blogs and I have been meaning to install automatic backup plugins (there’s a tech update I need to do…) and I just found a good post that explains how to do this:

http://davebgimp.com/?p=634

The method described sends everything to GMail. A great idea!

When I was using wordpress.com to host my blogs, I always forgot to do backups. Instead, I relied upon my RSS feeds to capture my posts. I have never had to rely upon a backup to save a site, and I realize that having to copy all the posts out of an RSS reader could be a big pain, but at least everything would be there. If you choose to do this, just make sure that you set your syndication options (Options>Reading) to show the full text. I prefer to use a desktop reader (SharpReader) in conjunction with a web-based one (BlogLines) just to be sure everything gets captured.

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:25:55 +0000

And yet, I still make all my websites in Notepad and the GIMP.