{"id":47,"date":"2008-12-28T20:34:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T01:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slxls.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/28\/finding-and-fixing-broken-inbound-links\/"},"modified":"2010-03-01T10:05:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T15:05:12","slug":"finding-and-fixing-broken-inbound-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/finding-and-fixing-broken-inbound-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding And Fixing Broken Inbound Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To find the broken inbound links in a quick manner, I suggest using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\">Google Webmaster Tools<\/a> which provides a report that shows <a href=\"http:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/broken-inbound-links.JPG\">inbound links pointing to nonexistent webpages<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Inbound links are an important factor in search engine rankings, so you do not want to link to pages that do not exist as this will have no affect on your serps.\u00c2\u00a0 Additionally, broken links are not user friendly and can agitate your visitors.\u00c2\u00a0 You may have accidentally created broken internal links by making your website have <a href=\"http:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/17\/keyword-friendly-urls\/\">keyword friendly urls<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 To fix these broken inbound links, you can contact the sites that are linking to the nonexistent webpages, or the easier method is to just fix it yourself using 301 permanently moved redirects.\u00c2\u00a0 It is essential that you fix broken links as your website&#8217;s full potential is not taken advantage of with broken links.\u00c2\u00a0 By fixing broken inbound links, you can improve your visitor experience and improve your search engine rankings at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To find the broken inbound links in a quick manner, I suggest using the Google Webmaster Tools which provides a report that shows inbound links pointing to nonexistent webpages.\u00c2\u00a0 Inbound links are an important factor in search engine rankings, so you do not want to link to pages that do not exist as this will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,77,56,25],"tags":[96,97],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-links","category-search-engines","category-seo-search-engine-optimization","tag-broken-links","tag-inbound-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}