Can't fix broken links
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I ran a test today to see why the traffic to my blog stopped growing and was in fact shrinking.
Broken Link Checker told me I have 36 broken links!
OK, so maybe because I’ve been re-organizing the blog.
But the links point to the same external URLs, that did not change. I copied and repasted the links and still they take me to a 404 page.
If I click the link in my posts it tries to to to http://www.thenameofmyblog.com/postnamewww.theURLIamlinkingto which is a 404
It’s very strange indeed.
Any ideas please?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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How’d you like to give us some actual links instead of some hypotheticals? There is not enough information in what you have said for us to trace the issue.
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OK,
Here’s the a ref as it appears on on the page
<sub>(2)</sub>If you go to the page and click the (2) – It’ll try to take you to http://tipsinarabic.com/category/%d9%81%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%a6%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%81%d8%a7%d9%83%d9%87%d8%a9/%d9%81%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%a6%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%b1%d8%aa%d9%82%d8%a7%d9%84/www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/feb05/citrus0205.htm
See what I mean? Tries to take me to the page I am on plus the url of the link.
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I finally managed to fix the above example but I deleted the whole a ref and redid the link from scratch and it worked.
It seems I had to also delete the entire “title” – ie the (2) in the a ref before it worked and rewrite it.
So its fixable I’ll have to go through 34 of them!
Also, just I checked on Broken Link Checker and it found even more of these issues. There are now 38 – there were 34 yesterday.
Could there be something going on behind the scenes muddling up links?
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I’ve been meaning to do this for a while now but today I went ahead and brutally deleted what I thought was a overpopulation of tags.
I’d been blissfully adding tags thinking the more the merrier for SEO.
After much reading and observing heated debates about them in some forums (from a safe distance ) and not finding definitive answer, I made up my own mind.
I think they were causing duplicate content issues, broken link issues and all together perhaps too much site navigation issues as per Google crawl reports.
So today, fingers crossed and hand on heart I trimmed them from some over 170 to about 40.
At least Broken Link Check seemed happy.
Broken links down from 38 to 4 – I manually fixed 8-10 that were unusual as mentioned in previous post above. I had to uproot them, disinfect the soil before planting them back. Something somewhere was off with those.Lets see what Google has to say after the next crawl.
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An unforeseen benefit of the tagocide committed has been more clarity from stats.
All the tags had clouded the weekly view of popular articles.
Now it’s easier to see what visitors are reading.
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