Dead Links

A dead link is also called as hanging dead link or link, which is a link on the World Wide Web tips for a website that is permanently available. An example of dead link is 404.This figure indicates that the web server responds, but that page could not be found. Sometimes, the browser may also give DNS error indicating that a Web server can not be found in that domain name. It is also possible to link too; link might be dead because of some kind of blockage, as content filters or firewalls.

A different kind of dead links is a URL pointing to the website that are not related to the required content. This type of error occurs because the domain name lapse and then re-registered by any other party.

Impairment Liaison is the way in which the links on any webpage steadily become irrelevant over time as the sites that link may disappear, change the content or redirect to some other places.

Dead links are commonplace on the Internet, which can also occur in the authoring side. This can occur when the contents of web site collects, deployed or not properly authenticate the objectives, or can not keep up. As broken links are a bit annoying sites that contain them are considered unprofessional.
How to solve broken links

* The most obvious way to link the organization is to use link checking software that test all links on a website for its solidity. Xenu's Link Sleuth is a good example .
* Content organization systems is another solution for maintaining the links, links should be updated media content is changed or moved from the site.
* Stops perm link broken links for the safety of that content will not move.
* The Wayback Machine operated by the Internet Archive keeps the historical photos of the websites.

The most likely dead link occurs because of the difficulty of updating other Web sites with links to their own. When user clicks any dead links, which is very common on the Internet most likely to be an HTTP 404 error, indicating the action could not be found.

The following are some tools that try to correct this error:

* The Linkgraph widget helps you get the correct page URL, having broken the old address by using historical location information.
* Google technology called Google 404 widget helps to "guess" the right direction, and also provides the user with a Google search box to find the correct page.
* DeadURL.com collects URLs alternative to a broken link through Google Cache, user presentation and the Internet Archive.


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