Ways to turn your old broken URL's into effective link resources ?
07 Mar 2010 04:53 pm
Most of the webmasters do not do proper redirection of old pages when the website is redesigned/revamped into an entire new one. The effect is that there will lot of broken links and you will also lose alot of inbound links. Here is a way to check the issue and if you do have old broken URL's you can turn them into effective link resources.
Go to Google Webmaster tools dashboard -- Your Website URL -- Diagnostics -- Crawl Errors -- Web Crawls -- Not Found.
You will now get a list of not found URL’s on your website . There will be a "Linked From" towards the right which shows the pages which are linking to not found pages. You can see the step by step guide about this on Google webmaster central blog.
We have now found the inbound links which are linked to old URL's. Now we need to ensure that this pages are linking to the new pages on our website. If they are not then we can send them a request to link to the new pages on our website. Meanwhile we can also redirect the old pages to the new pages on our website.
By : Cijo Abraham Mani | Category : Search Engine Optimization | Comment : 1 Comments
