Questions tagged [broken-links]
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We have been adding 404 Not Found pages to robots.txt, but now Google is indexing them
Index coverage says "Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt". Those pages are no longer active and return 404 status. So that they don't get crawled and indexed, our SEO guys have been adding them to robots.txt.
Personally I believe we shouldn't do…
Roshan Thangarajah
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When splitting a folder with tens of thousands of documents into several folders, how can I handle broken links?
I have over 30,000 html files stored in www.example.com/docs, and these files are linked to each other. When it comes to displaying the content of those files on my site, I use the following code: HTML Include using Java
I learned today that my host…
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Thousands of broken external links - SEO penalization?
I'm facing a SEO problem: I'm wondering if manually fixing/removing broken external links (pointing to expired domains, 404 pages, etc... of course not managed by me) is useful.
Does EXTERNAL broken links affect SEO?
If so, how do you suggest to…
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Does a broken link within conditional comments have any effect on SEO?
I have many sites with this old code which is intended to direct IE6 users to get a newer browser or to get Google Chrome Frame.