Thursday, 29 May 2014

Redirected Sites

I found a redirected link on my website covering a news about edge sorting cheaters. Webmasters would redirect a page to their home page when they deem any page unnecessary. As it is, a redirected link is a s good as a broken link because the article that you referred to no longer existed.

When +SavySeph highlighted the problem of a redirected link on her blog, I expected to run into similar problems too. After going through each link on my website, I managed to discover the page mentioned above with the problem. Like SavySeph, I was fortunate to find an alternate article. I will continue my check and blog further cases if any.

5 comments:

  1. Hah redirected links is such a pain in the a...

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    1. A redirected link = missing link. What a bummer.

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    2. Yes, problems like this makes you want to pull your hairs out.

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  2. Unreliable webpage redirect old pages to their home page. Citing from reputable site help avoid this problem.

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    1. Webmasters should make sure their site relevant so they can keep their site active.

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