Ways to Avoid Broken Links in Your Websites
Many times it happens that multiple 404 pages appear when you are browsing your own website. This surely does not give a good impression to your visitors.
Lifehacker contributor Brendan Hesse has shared a useful article on linking websites without the eventual broken links.
Hesse says, “Have you ever been browsing an older website, only to find yourself face-to-face with a 404 error when you click on a link to a long-abandoned site? What about searching up an old bookmarked article only to find that it’s now stuck behind a paywall?
These annoying scenarios will only get more common as old web content is removed, migrated, or simply stops working. It’s not just old content either—many webpages can last less than a few months, and social media content often disappears even faster.
Disappearing or broken web content poses several issues, including undermining an article’s credibility due to missing sources. Luckily, there’s a smart workaround that can prevent these annoyances: Link to websites using Archive.org, otherwise known as The Wayback Machine. This will ensure anyone who opens the link is being sent to the content in question as it exists when you’re linking to it”.
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