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 The best piece of professional advice I've had in 2013 is from my colleague Katharine O'Moore-Klopf in her recent blog entry The 1.5-Hour Daily Social Media Schedule, where she advocates regular link checking. Katharine's advice to do this regularly is crucial if you have a website that has many links embedded – a blog or a resource centre, perhaps. Not keeping on top of link integrity can mean things get out of hand. The Proofreader's Parlour is a case in point. It's been live for a year and I've not run link-checking software on it. The result is that there are a staggering 239 broken links on the site. This free online link checker will do the job: BrokenLinkCheck. Below is a summary of this tool's key features but there's a super article on the site that's worth a read, too. Summary of features (as quoted on the BrokenLinkCheck website):
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15/1/2013 05:59:04 am
Many thanks for this useful link. Katharine's post had also spurred me into action, I was about to go hunting link checkers but your post has saved me some time. 15/1/2013 09:13:22 pm
Thank you so much for sharing this resource! This came at a good time as someone was reviewing my site the other day and told me they came across two broken links. Not checking on our links could be costing us money! If someone can't get through to what they want then they are very likely to just move on. Thanks again, Louise! 5/11/2013 12:09:41 am
Louise, I continue to find amazing stuff on your website! I ran this program on my brand new website, on which I thought I'd checked all the links, and BrokenLinkCheck found 11 broken links! Thanks so much for this resource. I'll continue to use it regularly. Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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