Broken Link

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   William F. Torpeyposted 13 years ago

   I am puzzled. On my hub, "Confession Is Good for the Soul," I was notified of a broken link.
   
   This is the link I refer to: http://www.theworkofgod.org/dogmas.htm
   
   When I delete the link the warning disappears.
   
   I am puzzled because the link is not broken. When you click on the link the site appears.
   
   Is there some other reason for the warning -- other than a "broken" link?

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      wildernessposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Probably not.  This happens occasionally when the bot checking for broken links can't get through.  Maybe their server was down, or busy.
      
      I always test the link first and if it's OK leave it alone.

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         William F. Torpeyposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Thank you, wilderness. The link still works on my hub. I checked it again.

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      kschangposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Another possibility is their site has a "no robot" file setup so verification robots are blocked and thus, you get the 404 when you can manually go through just fine.

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         William F. Torpeyposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Thank you, kschang. I don't know what you mean by getting a 404 "when you can manually go through just fine." Insofar as the warning won't go away, does that mean I have to give up the link?

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            Gordon Hamiltonposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            I had a similar situation a few weeks ago, William,  and what I found was that the site I was linking to had ever so subtly changed its URL. SImilar to the new HP system in a sense, I suppose. I deleted the old link, replaced it with the new (almost identical one) and everything was OK.

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               William F. Torpeyposted 13 years agoin reply to this

               Thanks, Gordon Hamilton. I gave up on it. I replaced the link with one from Wikipedia. That works out OK.

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   IzzyMposted 13 years ago

   I noticed an issue today of a 'broken link' on a hub that stayed 'broken' even when I pressed to 'recheck'.
   The link was perfect. The only thing wrong with it was that it went to one of my own hubs using the original URL and not the subdomain, which a 301 is supposed to have taken care of.
   Could this be why I am getting a lot of crawl errors under GWT?
   Is the re-directs a bit broken for some of us? Could this be why I'm getting slapped?

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      William F. Torpeyposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks, IzzyM. I just changed to another link. I'm a computer dummie, so I don't want to spend any more time it. The new link will do.

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