Can you help me create a rule or rules to remove all external link errors?
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#8787 – External link errors rule?
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jtausa
wb_weeblr
Hi
Can you help me create a rule or rules to remove all external link errors?
What kind of rules? what's the problem? what do you want to do?
Best regards
Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com / @weeblr
jtausa
I want a rule or rules to remove all broken external links. This website has 338 broken external links.
wb_weeblr
Hi
If you have broken links, you need to fix them, not redirect them. These links are in your content, that's the entire point of this report, to let you fix them.
4SEO tells you exactly on which page the broken links are. You go to the article and you fix the link there. That's not something you fix with a rule.
What am I missing?
Best regards
Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com / @weeblr
jtausa
4SEO doesn't tell exactly on which page the broken links are.
Only is writing:
You should fix that error or modify the links to it found on pages below to avoid your visitors seeing those errors.
But nothing is shown below
wb_weeblr
Hi
I just logged in and it says exactly that:
I tested a few links and they all have this information.
Other things I can comment:
- most of these links actually work
- The error displayed by 4SEO is a 403: forbidden access. So this would indicate a technical problem, maybe these sites are blocking visits by robots such as 4SEO. It can also be that your server PHP setup blocks them, but that's harder to identify.
- I found several intances where the links have been corrected. For instance on this page:
https://xxxx.com/politics/not-again-joe-biden-accused-of-plagiarizing-canadian-politician-in-dnc-speech
The link at the bottom was seen by 4SEO as https://xxxx.com/trending/joe-biden-blasts-trumps-coronavirus-response-then-plagiarizes-trumps-plan/, which redirects to https://xxxx.com/election/matt-margolis/2020/08/22/not-again-joe-biden-accused-of-plagiarizing-canadian-politician-in-dnc-speech-n826596.
But the link in your article has been fixed, and is now correctly going directly to https://xxxx.com/election/matt-margolis/2020/08/22/not-again-joe-biden-accused-of-plagiarizing-canadian-politician-in-dnc-speech-n826596.
When you fix a link, you should delete the corresponding record in the error list.
I think the analysys is older now, and maybe it's best to just delete the list of broken links, and wait to see if they come back.
Best regards
Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com / @weeblr
jtausa
Those links I fixed or deleted using https://www.brokenlinkcheck.com/broken-links.php
I am referring to the external links that do not show the page that contains the broken link.
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jtausa
Hi Yannick,
Excuse me, I changed the Zoom on my screen and the component if it shows the error pages. It was my problem, not a component problem.
I will follow your recommendation to remove the list of broken links and see if they come back.
Thank you very much for your technical support and your patience.
Best Regards,
Jose
wb_weeblr
Hi
You're welcome! Closing this ticket now, feel free to open a new one as needed. If you do so, please mention this ticket number in the new one.
If you created any superadmin account for us, be sure to delete or block it now to avoid unnecessary risk in the future.
Best regards
Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com / @weeblr
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