Quickly Fix Broken Mediafire Links with These Simple Steps

There are several reasons why broken links can occur, for example:

• The website owner entered the wrong URL (spelling errors, typos, etc.).
• The URL structure of your website has recently changed without redirecting (permalinks) and is causing a 404 error.
• The external page is no longer available, is offline, or has crashed. has moved permanently.
• Links to content (PDF, Google Doc, Video, etc.) that has been moved or removed.
• Broken elements within the page (HTML, CSS, Javascript or CMS plugin errors).
• The firewall or geolocation restriction does not allow external access.

Broken links are bad for SEO and user experience

Broken links are bad for your website for several reasons.

First is the effect on your human visitors. When someone clicks on a link, they do so because they are interested in the content that they were told the link would take them to. It makes sense, right?

Step 2: Create a report and track your changes

After identifying your broken links, create an Excel spreadsheet to track your link propagation processes . Name it “Broken Link Redirect Report”. In Google Analytics, you can export the report you just created by clicking Export – CSV for Excel at the top of the page and downloading the file. For our purposes, we only need the broken link, pageview, and unique pageview data, so copy and paste these data columns into the Excel spreadsheet you created.

You can also export data from Xenu; Click File, then Export to Tab Delimited File, and then open this text file with Excel.

How to fix #### appearing instead of a negative date or time

If ##### appears in a cell due to a negative date or time value, try this with these troubleshooting tips:

• Make sure dates and times are positive values ​​when using the 1900 date system. Or switch to the 1904 date system to display negative date and time values typically: File > Options > Advanced > When calculating this workbook > Use 1904 date system.
• Use a correct formula for adding/subtracting dates or adding/subtracting times to avoid negative results.
• Apply a special negative date/time format to display a blank cell or an error message instead of negative values.
• Use this formula to calculate an absolute value of negative times and convert it to a suitable format to display negative times correctly.

W3C Link Checker

This broken link monitoring tool can be used to check specific areas of your website. It is also useful for controlling how deep the checker extends into the site.

This option is useful for very large websites, which typically have numerous external 404 issues, when website owners only need to work on a single section of the website at a time.