Removal of broken links

Hello all,

For websites who choose to store their files on major archiving systems such as archive.org, slideshare.net etc. and present links on their website for seemless downloading, one commonly faced problem is broken links which often cause inconvenience to visitors.

How are broken links formed?

Broken links can be formed due to some of the following common issues:

- Website that you made the link to:

•  is no more registered
• has removed the file you linked to
• has re-organized and moved things around

- Server (e.g. archive.org) has done a restructuring and now uses a different referencing method
- You linked to a file uploaded by another user who decided to take that file offline

How to fix this issue:
We have used a very useful award-winning tool recently. It identified 81 broken links out of our thousands of links to various servers.

Tool can be found at http://www.brokenlinkcheck.com unless they have gone out of service or have renamed or reorganized by the time you are reading this post. :)

It identifies broken links very efficiently and also highlights type of error linked to those links (e.g. 404 - page not found etc.).

I really liked the tool and thought it may be worthwhile to share with others.

Happy Reading and website building!