I get a lot of emails telling me about broken links. It’s because I run a lot of big sites with lots of blog posts. One of the downsides is that the links to some of the sources quoted in those blog posts stop working. The website is taken down. Or the link itself changes when there is a website upgrade.
If a reader of one of those blog posts clicks on that link, they will arrive on a page that shows a 404 error message. That doesn’t give a good experience for that reader.
A recognised strategy for linkbuilding is to reach out to blogmasters about broken links and suggest a substitute link.
But there’s always a problem with these new Fire and Security links.
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