Dead Links

[David P. Valley]

I would highly recommend that everyone verify all of their reciprocal links. I spent a good portion of the morning checking all my links and I found that I had to delete 25-30 links that were dead and probably out of business.

Good Luck.

[David A. Andersen]

Should I keep yours?

[iniquette]

I went through mine the other day and found quite a few. Don't delete them straight off, send an e-mail first, my opinion. If you get no response or link back, absolutely delete the link. Don't spread the word for someone if they aren't returning the favor.

[Brian E. Kelly]

Originally Posted by dvalley

I would highly recommend that everyone verify all of their reciprocal links. I spent a good portion of the morning checking all my links and I found that I had to delete 25-30 links that were dead and probably out of business.

Good Luck.

David is there a program that you use to make this task easier?

[William Thacker]

I recommend that all bad links be removed. Google and other search engines will punish you with lower placement on search engine results.

[David A. Andersen]

Yes there is, but I have not found accurate success with it, so I will not recommend it.

It may be that those that are in fact linked to your site have not been "cashed" my the SE.

Recommendation: do not post a link till one is posted to you.
It's just too hard to keep up with it otherwise.

For you guys that posted last week, I am behind in my linking again (school).

If you make a submit form, cut-n-paste makes it easy for you and you have provided the info for links to be made to your site and makes it easier for them.

I will get to you guys this weekend! But I need to get from behind this computer before the sun goes down!
Have farm chores to get done!

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Try http://validator.w3.org/checklink and point it directly to your link page. If you have nested categories for states, make sure to tell it to check 2-3 levels deep.

[Brian E. Kelly]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

Try http://validator.w3.org/checklink and point it directly to your link page. If you have nested categories for states, make sure to tell it to check 2-3 levels deep.

Wow very cool Dom.

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Helps to run it at some point on your entire site. I did on mine and found links to old pages I had left up that I had since renamed, links to sites that didn't exist, etc. Can take awhile to run on really large sites.

[Brian E. Kelly]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

Helps to run it at some point on your entire site. I did on mine and found links to old pages I had left up that I had since renamed, links to sites that didn't exist, etc. Can take awhile to run on really large sites.

I am finding that out.

[Brian E. Kelly]

I went through my links the old fashioned way and deleted 50 dead links.

[David P. Valley]

Originally Posted by dandersen

Should I keep yours?

Absolutely, I didn't delete your links.

Am I missing something?

[David P. Valley]

Originally Posted by bkelly2

David is there a program that you use to make this task easier?

No, I simply go to each and every website that I'm linking to. It's a long process but it works.

[David P. Valley]

Originally Posted by wthacker

I recommend that all bad links be removed. Google and other search engines will punish you with lower placement on search engine results.

Dead links will not place you lower on search engines.
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/001855.html

I'm simply maintaining my site.

[David P. Valley]

Guys,

I'm referring to dead links, not links that are not reciprocated.

I'm finding a lot of web sites that no longer exist, so I delete them.