Hi, I got "warnings" regarding my sitemap I submitted to google recently. The broken links are all inside articles of my article directory. Does it influence my ranking negative? What is the most time effective to do to get rid of these broken links? thanks, Nirusan
why do you want to get rid of them? if you dont need the links anymore, you can just deleted the links. if you need them, then see whyc the links are broken and fic them
if link present in your sitemap but not exit in your website. google shows this error in webmaster tool. Don't worry remove the link from your sitemap and from your website as well if it does't exit when the robot again crawl your sitemap, warning will be disappear
Definitely broken links will affect your site rank negatively and you have to repair them manually after identifying them through webmaster tool.
If you can't fix them, you should delete them, because broken links can affect your rankings negativ.
Broken links are supposed to be fixed or deleted. Broken links can really affect the ranking of your site. Poor usability from broken links can drive your potential customers away too.
I usually just redirect old / broken links to my homepage to keep the visitor instead of them getting an ugly 404 page