subject: Optimizing Your Site against Broken Link [print this page] Optimizing Your Site against Broken Link Optimizing Your Site against Broken Link
If you want to rank well on the search engine, you must perform on page optimization. One way to perform on page optimization is to check the page for broken links. It always happens that we make mistake and type in a wrong word in the URL when making the website.
After uploading the page, you can click through each link to make sure they are working properly. Since your site is just uploaded, nobody will be accessing your site. You still have time to replace the broken links. After you have replaced the broken links, you can promote it on the internet. If you find an invalid link, you must quickly correct it. You can open the page in a text editor and replace the wrong URL with the correct URL. If you have Dreamweaver, you can use the Insert hyperlink function to replace the incorrect URL. If the same broken link occurs in all the pages, you can use the find and replace function in Dreamweaver to correct the URL. In the Find field, you should enter the incorrect URL. In the Replace field, you should enter the correct URL. Once you click on the Replace All button, the incorrect URL will quickly be replaced with the correct URL. To do this, you need to open all the documents with the broken links in Dreamweaver. You will be able to see the changes done to the document in the results panel.
In addition, you can use a broken link checker to check the links on the site. There are many free broken link checker on the internet. To find a broken link checker, you simply enter the keyword "broken link checker" or "free broken link checker" in the search box in the search engine. The broken link checker on each site is different. If you want more functions in the broken link checker, you will have to use the paid service. The time for performing the check depends on the number of links on the page. The more links on the page, the longer the broken link checker will take to perform the check.
If you hire a SEO company, they will check the link structure on your site. They will see if the pages are link between each other. They will attempt to verify every link on the page to ensure there is no broken links. If there are broken links, they will inform you and make correction to it. Broken links causes the visitors to have obstacle when navigating the site. When a visitor click on a link and it results in 404 page, it gives them an impression that your site is unprofessional. By hiring a SEO company, your site will be optimized properly so that it becomes user friendly and SEO friendly.
There are many SEO companies on the internet. Some SEO companies charge a monthly fee while others accept payment after the site ranked. It is best that you sign up with a SEO company that charges a monthly fee.
