The mystery of the invisible broken links

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by roger_inkart, Jan 17, 2009.

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    Thanks for taking a moment to read this. I added a stock directory to http://inkart.net/stock.

    For reasons I can't determine, Google is reporting broken links all over my site to this directory. But when I click the link they seem to be fine:

    http://www.inkart.net/art/wildlife_art/great_horned_owl/

    Click on the link on the right that says "The image is available for stock art illustration."

    Seems to work for me. Can someone check out the code and see what I'm doing wrong?

    I know it's probably something simple. Any help is appreciated!
     
    roger_inkart, Jan 17, 2009 IP
  2. Fracisc

    Fracisc Well-Known Member

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    maybe the "../../../" part?

    Overall your header is OK.

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK =>
    Date => Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:07:44 GMT
    Server => Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
    X-Powered-By => PHP/5.2.8
    Connection => close
    Content-Type => text/html
     
    Fracisc, Jan 19, 2009 IP
  3. pluto1

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    I am not really sure if this will help but you can try checking your website links on this Free Broken Link Checker to determine if the links are actually broken or not.
     
    pluto1, Jan 19, 2009 IP
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    Like Fracisc said, it's probably the way you defined the path to your links. Since the folder you are referring to is in your root directory, it would be better and less characters to have your links with only 1 leading slash ("/stock/birds/birds_of_prey/great_horned_owl.php") rather than ("../../../stock/birds/birds_of_prey/great_horned_owl.php").

    That's also good practice to set up all of your links that way.

    Let me know if that works.
     
    revoD, Jan 19, 2009 IP