Does having a few broken links in a site cause you to be excluded from certain search engines?<br /><br />I recently got a copy of Xenu and checked my site and found 50 odd broken links out of my several thousand pages.<br /><br />These broken links included the following -<br /><br />Outbound links to sites that have since dissapeared and gave 404 page not founds<br />Mistyped internal links again giving 404's<br />Some .jpg and .gif images which were missing<br />Some 12029 no connection errors to external sites<br /><br />I am now working my way though correcting these, however the question remains that is there a percentage of links in your site which are broken that is acceptable (like 0.05% for example) or are there some of the search engines and directories that will exclude you for having><img src='http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Google devalues sites with over 2% broken links, I believe it starts seriously affecting page indexing after the 6% mark<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br />That's interesting... have you got a source for that statistic Neurotoxin? Thanks <img src="http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> <br /><br />I would say that perhaps anything that says a site has fallen into disrepair is a signal to a directory or a search engine that you are not so 'alive'. I wonder whether there's any history of an editor at DMOZ doing this...<!--content-->
<!--quoteo(post=16740:date=Nov 16 2007, 16:22:name=DVD-and-Media.co.uk)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DVD-and-Media.co.uk @ Nov 16 2007, 16:22) <img src='http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Does having a few broken links in a site cause you to be excluded from certain search engines?<br /><br />I recently got a copy of Xenu and checked my site and found 50 odd broken links out of my several thousand pages.<br /><br />These broken links included the following -<br /><br />Outbound links to sites that have since dissapeared and gave 404 page not founds<br />Mistyped internal links again giving 404's<br />Some .jpg and .gif images which were missing<br />Some 12029 no connection errors to external sites<br /><br />I am now working my way though correcting these, however the question remains that is there a percentage of links in your site which are broken that is acceptable (like 0.05% for example) or are there some of the search engines and directories that will exclude you for having one single broken link???<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />I think broken links do not make your site be banned from search engines.. Having broken links form your site would give bad impression from your online visitors. As a result, they will not visit again your site if ever they need information and resources related to your theme..<!--content-->
There must be an acceptable level of broken links as you have no control if an extrenal site you are linking too is down... So I suppose the up to 2% may be acceptable, but I would imagine it is alot lower than that say 0.5%<!--content-->
based on my experienced you didn't get ban in search engines only because the broken links!<!--content-->
Surely the more important aspect of broken links is your customer's online experience? If they find lots of broken links (or any at all for that matter) any goodwill or confidence you've built up with that customer is shattered. <br /><br />What reason is there for them to stay on that site if it doesn't do what they want?<!--content-->
None, but thats a usability issue and this is the SEO section of the forum<!--content-->
" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> <br /><br />I would say that perhaps anything that says a site has fallen into disrepair is a signal to a directory or a search engine that you are not so 'alive'. I wonder whether there's any history of an editor at DMOZ doing this...<!--content--><!--quoteo(post=16740:date=Nov 16 2007, 16:22:name=DVD-and-Media.co.uk)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DVD-and-Media.co.uk @ Nov 16 2007, 16:22) <img src='http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Does having a few broken links in a site cause you to be excluded from certain search engines?<br /><br />I recently got a copy of Xenu and checked my site and found 50 odd broken links out of my several thousand pages.<br /><br />These broken links included the following -<br /><br />Outbound links to sites that have since dissapeared and gave 404 page not founds<br />Mistyped internal links again giving 404's<br />Some .jpg and .gif images which were missing<br />Some 12029 no connection errors to external sites<br /><br />I am now working my way though correcting these, however the question remains that is there a percentage of links in your site which are broken that is acceptable (like 0.05% for example) or are there some of the search engines and directories that will exclude you for having one single broken link???<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />I think broken links do not make your site be banned from search engines.. Having broken links form your site would give bad impression from your online visitors. As a result, they will not visit again your site if ever they need information and resources related to your theme..<!--content-->
There must be an acceptable level of broken links as you have no control if an extrenal site you are linking too is down... So I suppose the up to 2% may be acceptable, but I would imagine it is alot lower than that say 0.5%<!--content-->
based on my experienced you didn't get ban in search engines only because the broken links!<!--content-->
Surely the more important aspect of broken links is your customer's online experience? If they find lots of broken links (or any at all for that matter) any goodwill or confidence you've built up with that customer is shattered. <br /><br />What reason is there for them to stay on that site if it doesn't do what they want?<!--content-->
None, but thats a usability issue and this is the SEO section of the forum<!--content-->