Denise writes:

[Download Chart (PDF)] is giving me an error message

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Kathryn Merrow - The Pain Relief Coach writes:

Hello,

This is such a wonderful service! Who else would notify an author that a link was broken? Just one more benefit of submitting my articles to you. Thank you so much!

Kathryn Merrow

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Social Media Optimization writes:

Would it be possible if error links could be detected before sumission of articles?

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Donna Watkins writes:

I got an e-mail about broken links but when I went to article diagnostic, there was nothing there. It said I had 0 broken links. I’m a little confused and not sure what to do now. Thanks, Donna Watkins

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Timeshare Relief writes:

I think article evaluation takes faster now here in ezine. I always post timeshare-related posts here.

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Pablo writes:

I’ve got a message of ‘invalid URL/link detection so I went to your Diagnostic Center and here’s what it says:

Summary
We have detected 0 links (0 unique) in 0 articles that may need your attention.

No Problems Found
Your diagnostic center is clear. Return here to check for problems in your articles.

I don’t know what should I do….
Thank you

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Beate Ortman writes:

I just received mail from you about an invalid link. When I checked it on your article diagnostic page, it showed 0 broken links. Why did I get this mail? What do I need to do?
Thank you
Beate Ortman

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Penny, Managing Editor writes:

All,

We do checks on every article submitted in our editorial reviews. All articles (and their links) must pass through (2) human editor reviews before they are approved. If your link is not working, your article will not be approved.

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Simmar Kumar writes:

Hi,

I have a very serious issue regarding your new link checker service. Its good to have, but my site link is shown as a broken or dead link. In reality my site is working 24*7. I got my following article approved with dead link to my site:

http://ezinearticles.com/?Outsource-Ecommerce-Software-Development&id=3986212

This article was approved on 3/26/2010 and was showing broken links. How come my website link is shown as an inactive link in my latest article? As per your broken link policy I haven’t received any mail regarding this.

Till now I have updated my site links twice and it get approval with dead links!!!

Please let me know why EzineArticles is finding my website as a dead link?

Regards

April 5, 2010 at 2:44 AM

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Penny, Managing Editor writes:

Simmar,

I have addressed your issue privately.

April 5, 2010 at 8:32 AM

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Geoff writes:

I think it`s a great part of the service, thanks. It does me no favours to have broken links (fortunately I`ve never had any in my time here), but I`d much rather know about them than not.

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Penny, Managing Editor writes:

Pablo and Donna Watkins,

I apologize for the confusion here but we have implemented a new accurate system today. If you have received an email in the past few days notifying you that you have invalid links and your Diagnostic Center says that you don’t, you can disregard the email as your Diagnostic Center is accurate.

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Carol Bentley writes:

As broken links can damage your reputation by disappointing the reader I think this is a truly valuable service.

Thanks for helping us to keep our reader’s experience top class.

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Matthew writes:

Great job once again. This is some of the best information I have ever seen on a free article submission site!

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Lizzie writes:

Hello
I have received an invalid url email tonight. I have been to the Diagnostic Centre, says all is ok and no problems, checked link myself – fine – so can only assume I am in the same boat as Pablo and Donna?? Thanks

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Alex writes:

Hi Penny,

What a wonderful service! And, thanks so much for your communications here! FYI: I got an email about an invalid link at 10:54AM today, but the Diagnostic Center says 0 invalid. It is great to know the Diagnostic Center is correct, but thought you might want to to that inaccurate emails are still being sent.

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Penny, Managing Editor writes:

Alex,

Yes, we are aware. You can disregard that email. This new system started today.

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Ken Wallin writes:

I have closed my website. I want to delete the URL from my authors information. How do I do that without having to remove all my articles from live status?

Thanks. The links will work, but lead to an error page as the website they lead to has been closed down.

Ken

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Brain Injury writes:

i just got this email. really broken link is very important issue . Visitor must be given the genuine refferal . I am happy that yours system is constantly checking broken links

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Gunter Eibl from GetArticlesDone.com writes:

Great you have human review of the links as well. I thought it is “just” automatic. I guess you are also checking the quality of the landing page?

Gunter

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Dr Robert Henry Schwenk writes:

Thank you. I believe it, but it is difficult to believe how helpful you folks at EzineArticles are. Please keep up the great work.

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Penny, Managing Editor writes:

Ken Wallin,

This cannot be done without removing your articles from live status. Each article will need to be changed. It will be better to do this than to provide the negative experience that your readers are getting with a site that is down.

Gunter Eibl,

Yes we do check landing page quality as part of our article review. Here are some more great tips: http://blog.EzineArticles.com/2008/05/landing-page-tips.html

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Sonny Dinger writes:

HI,CHRIS,
I ‘M NEW AT THIS ,BUT I ALWAYS TEST MY LINKS BEFORE
I SEND THEM ON THEIR WAY, TOO MANY THINGS HAPPEN
ONLINE TO DISRUPT THE TRAVEL OF YOUR WORK, IT IS AMAZING
THE SPEED OF THE INTERNET AS IT IS, THANK YOU FOR
LETTING ME STEP IN HERE,
SONNY

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Lance Winslow writes:

Sounds like a lot of work, but this is a good thing.

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Honey Krumholz writes:

I was informed of some invalid links by email but when i went to the diagnostic center, there were none.

Please review my articles and let me knwo if there are any invalid links.

Thank You

honey

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Penny, Managing Editor writes:

Honey Krumholz,

You don’t have any invalid links. You’re good to go :)

All,

If you find that you received an email prior to yesterday that claims you have invalid links and you don’t, disregard the email.

Some changes were made on this yesterday and unfortunately some of the emails that were sent prior to that change, may be inaccurate. You can trust your Article Diagnostic Center to provide accurate results.

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Lydia Chernoff writes:

I received an “Invalid URL/Link Detection” notice on my article. When I checked it in preview mode, I found it works. I believe I followed all the criteria. Please help me understand what my next step is to fix this.

Thanks so much,

Lydia

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

Lydia,

There is nothing to do. You did nothing wrong.

All,

Please read/scan this entire thread before posting future comments. Chances are high we’ve already covered the issue you’re commenting about.

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

Gunter,

YES, we do both automatic AND human review of EVERY single landing page.

Too many submissions have come from members who just want to SELL SELL SELL before they have EARNED EARNED EARNED the right to have a relationship with their own ideal client.

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Lance Winslow writes:

Can we have a system in which we can simply check agree, and the dead link will be removed rather that going through the entire editing procedure. With 17,000 articles, I had 26 dead links, and well, that took a while this morning.

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

Lance,

That’s how the new system works… If you ignore all of the automated requests of our system of you to fix them, on day 35…they are unlinked and you’ll no longer get dead link notifications.

In addition to making them inactive links, if they were anchored text links, we insert (http:// ) URL so that our visitors can see which URL was originally linked up when the article was originally accepted

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Lance Winslow writes:

Ok, then if I understand you correctly, the article will remain, but the links will “unlink” right, did I understand you correctly there? If so, this would save us all time.

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

Lance,

Your understanding is correct.

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Mack writes:

thank you very much! Ms. Penny, Managing Editor

It is very good in EzineArticles, it notify invalid links.

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Jo-Ellen writes:

I received a notice of an invalid URL in an article that I submitted. When I logged it, I never got the interface described above. I did, howerver, go to my article and check the URL, which seemed to work. My going in and editing resulted in a resubmission….am I to assume things are on track? That was on the 16th and I haven’t hear anything one way or another yet, not even that the new submission was received.

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

Jo,

Everything is fine.

We had over 7000 members edit and fix their dead links yesterday and over 1500 extra emails in to our member support center. That puts us a full week to 9 days behind.

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Lisa Angelettie writes:

This is a great tool and am personally glad you’ve added it to your system of checks and balances. I changed the link structure of one of my sites and it’s good to know if I missed something when fixing the links in some of my older articles. Keep up the amazing work!

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Don & Barbara writes:

We are new to this part of the business and we don’t know how to get on to an e zine nor do we know how much it costs to use your service. Could you please email us some detailed instructions? We do have a product recognized by VA and listed in the PDR
Thank you
Don & Barb

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

Don,

Sign up for a FREE basic level membership and submit your first 10 articles:
http://EzineArticles.com/submit/

Want free training? Sign up for our sequenced email ecourse at: http://EzineArticles.com/training/

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Alla writes:

I agree and support the way EzineArticles handles broken links by notifying the authors. Great job!

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Outsource SEO writes:

Do redirects count as invalid URL’s?

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

A redirect is not an invalid URL unless it does not redirect to a valid web page.

Make sure your redirects or rewrite is a 301 (preferred) or 302.

April 5, 2010 at 12:42 PM

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Eric J Smith writes:

My links are not broken for me.
My links are not broken according to my Website host.
My links work fine according to friends in Malaysia, UK and California.

But, 2 in every 3 of my articles are rejected due to broken links.

As at today, the system won’t let me submit articles stating links are broken.

I appreciate the service and do not want to sound unappreciative but this is getting VERY frustrating.

How do i fix it if there is nothing broken ?

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Chetan Mahore writes:

Is EzineArticles not allow .tv domain extension links in resource. My article is declined saying as ‘Invalid/broken link’ but here the link working fine.

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Vanessa, Editorial Manager writes:

Hi Chetan,

I see you have been in contact with our Member Support Team regarding the issue. They will be the best avenue to discuss any issues with your articles or your links.

~Vanessa

October 10, 2013 at 10:48 AM

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