{"id":1544,"date":"2023-08-08T14:30:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecommercewala.org\/learn\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2023-08-08T14:31:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:31:23","slug":"dealing-with-broken-links-on-your-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecommercewala.org\/learn\/dealing-with-broken-links-on-your-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with Broken Links on Your Website| Google SEO Ranking Factors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Google SEO Ranking Secrets in 2022| Broken Links |SEO Tutorial |Ecommerce Wala\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jliSRHnzDMw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\ud83d\udc49Coming to the next topic which is broken links. Now what are these broken links? Again the involvement of politics is an example.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\ud83d\udc49Broken links are those links that are not further available due to any reasons for example suppose you\u2019ve created a link to any BBC website, and the page which was supporting that link was removed from your website. So that link attached on BBC\u2019s website is showing the link that isn\u2019t available. So this becomes a broken link and would give error 404 showing that this link doesn\u2019t exist on your website.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\ud83d\udc49In the same way when we build up many connections and don\u2019t maintain them, in this case, they become our broken links. For this what we can do now? While using the \u2018ahrefs\u2019 tool, all those links which are lost or broken are shown there. So what do we have to do now? We have to keep a check that our website doesn\u2019t have any broken links in it. Another example of it could be that you open any website, open one of the products shown on the website, and it\u2019s not linked anywhere. One of your broken links is with external websites and one is with internal ones. So if the product on the website you tried to open, if it didn\u2019t open it means that is a broken link.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\ud83d\udc49Also, when we went to the forum of the website, if it didn\u2019t open and if the link isn\u2019t guiding us anywhere it is also considered as a broken link. The information on the broken link can be found in the webmaster tools how many broken links does your website contain? So that we can fix that up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\ud83d\udc49Another example is shown with the help of the content section in a book that it is also considered as a link as it leads to chapters and page numbers of the book. 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