Troubleshooting that Broken Website is Critical for Success

In order to be successful nowadays, you will certainly need a good website.  In addition to having this website, you will need to ensure it stays operational at all times.  Keeping it functional will make success much easier since customers will not have a difficult time when navigating the site.

Many people have websites that are plagued with broken links.  When people click on these links, they will be presented with a 404 page instead of the information they are looking for.  They likely will not stick around to find the information manually, so they will leave and you will lose their business forever in all likelihood.

There are various reasons why you can have broken links on your website.  When creating the link in the first place, you may have had a typo without realizing it.  Other times, you may have deleted certain files or pages from your server and forget to delete the associated links.

The problem with having a broken website is that human visitors do not just notice it, robots do as well.  Your website will lose credibility in the eyes of the search engine and likely lose rankings because of it.  Google and other search engines are really focusing on visitor experience to determine rankings, and being presented with plenty of broken links certainly does not give a good experience.

Webmasters should also keep a check on their images too.  You do not want visitors to see a big red X instead of an image.  Store all of your images on your own server instead of hot-linking to images on other servers.

It is best for you to double-check all of your links whenever you first create them.  You will also need to go through your website on a periodic basis and check for broken links manually.  Using Google's Webmaster Tools is an easy way to stay updated on broken links on your website.

In addition to internal links, you will also need to check outbound links.  You do not want to direct your visitors to websites that no longer exist or those with pages which have been changed and are no longer relevant.  This will affect your website's reputation too.

Having a functional website largely depends on your web hosting company.  Make sure you sign up with a reliable company to host your website.  You will not want your entire website to go down instead of having one or two broken links since that would be much worse.