The role of a webmaster or website owner or responsibilities do not end when the website that works is "live" and is now accessible by visitors online. There is a whole new set of responsibilities and functions that a web site owner must take to ensure your site constantly works perfectly and is capable of fulfilling its intended functions. Some of the responsibilities assigned to include the provision of new content as much as possible, the presentation of the website to search engines and reciprocal links actively seeking to raise the ranking in search engines.
One of the most important responsibilities of a web site owner is to check for broken links on your website. Broken links can be considered as one of the worst things that can happen to a website. A lot of perceptions are not so good and the negative effects of having a site that is full of broken links.
In fact, the broken links are plaguing so many web sites being considered as a serious problem on the web. Many reasons can be cited for the spread of broken hyperlinks, the general causes of broken links are web sites not maintained to the degree of dedication, web site architecture and how the information is placed on the site is constantly changing, and incidence of major websites that are closing.
Hyperlinks are an important component of the web, as it helps in navigation of web pages and points out the site instructions. A website without links is like a pile of documents that are stacked one above the other, without rhyme or reason and there is no intelligent way for you to get the information you need.
Link management is a very important and absolutely essential to maintain a website. As previously mentioned, broken links will bring a very negative perception about the website and these can have very adverse effects on the traffic generated by the website.
From a technical standpoint, broken links can stop search engine robots dry, in fact, completely prevents draw a web site for submission to search engines. In addition, a website that is full of many broken hyperlinks offers visitors the idea that the site is unprofessional and that the web site owner or owners have a dubious reputation - expensive image problems that are difficult to change once established. Moreover, visitors encounter many difficulties in a website will most likely not come back for a return visit, this is almost equivalent to the loss of potential customers. They will go black and will not get the page you are looking, thinking it is actually on the site when in reality the page is not just a coding error in fact inaccessible page.
Internet users with more and more sophisticated over time, which will be web site owners more to attract these users to visit their web sites and broken links will not help this process so difficult in any way.
Web site owners and webmasters should be aware of the negative effects of having broken links on their websites. Must measure of weeds and fix broken links. Fortunately, there is now a growing number of useful utilities that can help webmasters to find broken links. With these utilities, the management of a web site becomes relatively easier.
For example, xml-sitemaps. com has scheduled a separate script that not only will create site maps, but also finds broken links on a website, and then advises webmasters or website owners are and links to pages that the links are associated. This automation of the task of checking for broken links is a huge time saver for webmasters and website owners.
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