Remove dead links and redirects check is in our blog a recurring ritual, which we had dedicated this year for the last time on the first day of Christmas. In our view, the removal of dead links is just as essential as the testing of referrals, because just behind the latter may hide objectives will link to (a) not a man and (b) can have negative effects like, keyword: bad neighborhood.

Now we can not count on my readers tell us every time something in our links is in disarray. On the contrary, this will be the exception rather than the rule. Besides, where do our readers know what link we want and what is not, especially when we look at the links of our commentators.

However, whether a link is now dead or redirected to a page that no longer corresponds to our ideas, testing and removal of these links makes sense in any event. Who of us knows the scenario is not, since hours after looking for a specific information and finally displays a page that a link in the desired promises. Click on it … Page not found dead links annoy our readers, that must be clear.

In addition, dead links have so no nutritional value, not for my readers, nor for me nor for the search engines that me in the worst case at most at some point had “a pull over the head” when too many of them. Finally, timeliness is a factor that is important for all.

Dead links removed:

This time we have again removed hundreds of dead links. There were again many times, as well as some blogs had passed completely from the net and had commented that the bloggers here often.

Forwarding check and either remove or adjust:

What annoys us but is far more than to remove dead links are redirects. We have to ever take any of you more closely and would be simplified greatly when some commentators would be even agree on what URL they are achievable. Redirects the URLs with www to without and vice-versa, redirects to other home pages as the specified URL, people, give the URL of your page and not something else, which is then redirected!

Even with the redirects encountered some extremely unpleasant things that are a mere appearance of the target side, the hair on end. From extreme to extremely obvious Black SEO projects and extreme attempts a website on money printing machine has to rebuild … The ancient spammer trick to get hold of the first with a “normal” side of a link and then after some time on what “evil “redirect, the link would voluntarily no man seems to be still very popular.

Old stuck send pings and trackbacks:

Remove with our clean-up of the broken links and redirects to adjust on the first day of Christmas, we then probably once again set off a small avalanche of old have not sent pings and trackbacks, which date from the upgrading of the relevant article. Thomas led to the erroneous assumption that the principle WordPress Trackback solved problems would.