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    Broken link

    what are the effects of broken links?

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    Having too many broken links that keep bringing people to error pages or server files may frustrate them and cause them to leave a site. This also makes it difficult for spiders to crawl and index the pages properly. Search engines may decide that such a site is under construction, outdated or inactive and therefore, not useful for visitors which can affect site rankings negatively. It's a good idea to check for broken links from time to time and fix them in order to encourage more people as well as search engine spiders to visit.

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    Broken link causing traffic drop, lose potential customer. When search engine bot unable to crawl link and detect link juice, it will cause PR and SERP drop.

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    Broken links are links that lead to pages of the website that do not exist or load as a page error.

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    Broken links will happen, when it is a sign of laziness not to fix them. They will occur, but now it is quite easy to be notified, and to get them fixed. Nothing is more frustrating, then when you are reading a post, and they say click here for more information.

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    Damaged data link creating targeted traffic lower, fall back potential customer. Whenever search engine optimization robot can not spider website link along with recognize hyperlink juice, it will bring about Pr as well as SERP free fall.



    Quote Originally Posted by axissoftech View Post
    what are the effects of broken links?

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    You can also be penalized by G for broken links. The rationale is that you are not providing a good experience for the users they are sending to you as well as overall site functionality.

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    I would make a diffewrence between internal and external broken links:

    Internal broken links cause error 404 and are really bad in Google´s eyes. The should be fixed, because they are in our own website and easy to manage.

    External broken links are not so bad. Sometimes its impossible not to avoid external broken links, but a couple of them will not harm your serps.

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    Broken links effects your websites rankings in search engines, and it is also considered as negative point of your web designing. Hence, make sure that you are getting rid of broken links from your website.

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    Broken links have an adverse effect on your rankings in search engines. They prevent your website from looking like an authority website and might push your rankings down as well.
    So, its better to use some tools to get the broken links of your website and remove them asap.

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    Broken links will always have bad effect on the website performances. Not only from SEO point of view, it is bad from overall health of the website as well.
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