To remove deadlinks

varun1182 · #1 (**permalink**) 7th July 2006, 04:07 AM

How to remove dead links from Yahoo about my website? They are spidered often and lead to error 404...

Any suggestions??

netgal06 · #2 (**permalink**) 14th July 2006, 02:41 AM

Ive never had to do this with yahoo but I have with google before. they have a comprehensive how to guide: in achieveing this. it teaches you how tor emove dead links, remove specific content or images from thier searches etc..
Have a read of it it might give you an idea of how to do it for yahoo

http://www.google.com/support/webmas...301&topic=8459

netgal06 · #3 (**permalink**) 14th July 2006, 02:42 AM

actually yahoo has a form for people to fill out to report dead links, so its pretty easy to take care of and takes seconds. Although this only applies to yahoo directories not search
http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/writeus/deadlink.html

backstage · #4 (**permalink**) 18th September 2006, 05:02 AM

Yahoo takes a long time to renew/remove dead links.
You have to do this :

1. 301 redirect dead link
2. Not have any link pointing to dead link and
3. Wait ...

mini_0 · #5 (**permalink**) 19th May 2007, 06:41 AM

Well , dead lik removal is a essential in a SEO dictionary . It gives a bad impression of your websites making it unprofessional and not maintained . Once your site is up and running, apart from adding new content periodically, it is a nice idea to check for dead or broken links. The tool that is really helpful for checking broken or dead link is http://www.dead-links.com .
If you find a dead or broken link, simply remove that as those links will reduce the credibility of your website as a whole with respect to the visitors and also to the search engines.