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8:16 pm
February 6, 2012
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MaximizingMoney
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Daisy said:
Alright this might be an absolutely ridiculously dumb question, but what is Panda? Besides the big cute bear?
Panda I believe was the name for the last big Google update that adversely affected some sites. It was big, but not cute.
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4:32 am
February 7, 2012
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Invest It Wisely
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Very cool; I will go check this out!
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8:17 am
May 19, 2012
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Money and Risk
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Jeff,
Thanks for the reminder. I've had this installed from day one but we rarely checked it since we only linked to government sites and other bloggers mostly.
I just check my links after a year of not checking. It wasn't too bad. 86 broken out of over 3000 link out. 50% were government sites (sigh) and 50% were bloggers who are no longer active.
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7:56 pm
August 15, 2012
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LaTisha @YoungFinances
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Glad I rediscovered this thread! I just installed the plugin and first found a few comments with misspelled urls so I fixed those. Now I am going through and fixing the internal 404s.
Also finding a few from bloggers who quit…sad to see.
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9:15 am
August 16, 2012
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I installed for the first time and it said I had no broken links. Seems like with two years of posts I would have at least one or two broken links…. I'm a tech-idiot so maybe I'm missing something. Does it make sense to have NO broken links in 2 years?
Granted Suba helped me migrate from blogger to wordpress and was totally awesome so maybe she fixed any broken links during that process…
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9:48 am
August 16, 2012
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I came across this plugin early on for which I'm thankful, so even if I miss a broken link notice on my dashboard it soon enough emails to let me know, so any stray broken links can be addressed very quickly. I love plugins that are simple and effective – few and far between!
BTW I also find it helps to identify more clearly any sneaky spam emails which go along the lines of "Hey Drew, I found some broken links on your site…" ….Yeah, nice try bud.
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9:05 am
August 17, 2012
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Thanks for the info Jeff!
The best way to see if you've been effected by Panda or any other of the Google algorithm updates is to sign up to Webmaster Tools, that'll give you any warnings that Google has discovered that your site has a poor linking profile.
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CBC International are specialists in debt recovery, based in Liverpool who provide their services to businesses across the UK, Europe and Worldwide.
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3:11 pm
December 31, 2012
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Post edited 3:12 pm – December 31, 2012 by Financial Samurai
Howdy fellas, revisiting this topic as I just went ran it and fixed a lot of broken links.I am doing some year-end blog cleaning/optimization and would love to hear your thoughts.
Some questions:
1) Most of the broken links are from comments as FS gets a lot for some reason. Do broken links from commenters matter you think? A lot of them are bloggers that faded away or mispelling.
2) Do you think comments help or hurt your sites SEO? Many have talked about how the community can help enrich the post with great content. While others say even non-spam comment just dilutes the post.
3) Has this plug-in ever crashed your server? My server went down for 1 hour today, and perhaps it is do to Broken Link Checker, but perhaps not.
4) Sounds like so long as the redirects are linking to relevant, legit content, all is good. Si?
5) I noticed you guys delete the plug-in after its run. Do you think just deactivating is as good as deleting? If you deactivate, and reactive, will the plug-in sweep the ENTIRE site again (Bad)?
Thanks,
Sam
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Sam
Financial Samurai - Helping you achieve financial freedom sooner, rather than later.
Yakezie Network Founder
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4:36 pm
January 1, 2013
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I don't think comments are a big issue, especially since most comments are no-follow anyway (if yours are do-follow then that would be different).
Broken Link Checker is resource heavy but the big hit is initially when you first set it up. Otherwise it runs overnight I believe? I haven't had any issues with my server going down from it.
With redirects I wouldn't automatically delete them. Many people change their permalink structure over time. I look for links that go to dead sites (like landing pages) or that have completely changed the site. I'll edit the url to the final one if I see it's taking a long time for the redirect to resolve. I'll correct broken links when I can as well for sites I know.
Why would you delete the plugin or even turn it off? I'd want to know when new links are discovered.
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8:21 pm
January 1, 2013
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I've noticed on several sites that the site becomes sluggish and has some issues right away after you activate the plugin. I think that has to do with the first run of it. After that, it crawls pages on a schedule, so it shouldn't be a problem.
I wouldn't delete it at all. I'm fairly certain that deleting it might get rid of any history as well, resulting in a full re-crawl should you ever reinstall it. At the most, deactivate it. I leave mine running and it hasn't seemed to affect anything adversely.
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5:34 am
January 2, 2013
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I keep mine installed. I believe it runs in the background when you are logged in to your dashboard.
I manually check all the links and redirects before I unlink anything.
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8:14 am
January 2, 2013
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Financial Samurai
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Shane, good to know. That's what I thought regarding deactivate/delete, but just wanted to make sure.
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Sam
Financial Samurai - Helping you achieve financial freedom sooner, rather than later.
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