I received an email a few weeks ago about a dead Amazon link, or maybe it was that that the product was no longer available, I'll have to check. I wouldn't have known this had they not contacted me. Does Hubpages have a system for detecting this or would the editor have checked the link manually? If the former is the case, it would be useful if this could be flagged in out stats.
Eugene, you can see which articles have broken links by visiting your Article Statistics page. Next to the title will be a black triangle with an exclamation point in the middle. There's also a Broken Links tab at the top of the page. Click on that and you'll see a list.
The thing is, there was no triangle there, so they either manually checked the link, got an automatic notification or checked it and discovered the product was unavailable. I'm trying to find the email where they suggested I fix it to see what they actually said. I replaced the product with a similar one, so I can't remember what the link was saying.
Brainwave: Check the Waybackmachine and see what the link is reporting.
Our broken link checker runs periodically, so it may not catch your broken links immediately. Whenever it runs, the information in your Broken Links tab is updated.
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