Posted by xyZed on 03/01/06 11:16

There is circumstantial evidence that on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 08:19:36
+0000, Alan Cole <justal@lineone.net> wrote
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>› None whatsoever

I think I know what you mean, and fundamentally I probably agree, but
to me, broken links in a site you rely on for your only source of
income cost money and they need automated checking, especially
affiliate links . Broken links on my personal site where I have my
reviews, poems etc are not critical at all and merely inconvenient.

I don't monitor where traffic is coming from on my personal site
either because it's just my home site, which I hope some people will
find and enjoy but if no one ever visited it I would be merely
disappointed and not financially ruined.

Monitoring what visitors do, where they came from, how long they stay
etc on my home site would be purely out of interest on my home site
but on a business site it's critical information to be acted on.
Position on search engines etc, again is purely academic unless it's a
business (unless you are taking your personal non profit site pretty
seriously - which is fair enough)

I don't mean to imply that some people don't take their sites
extremely seriously unless they make money but I can't see how a
business site needs no more tools than a hobbyist site.

Can a link checker check javascript affiliate links btw? And can it
also inform if the page linked to has changed? I keep finding that
even affiliate links suddenly stop working because some idiot has
moved the page I linked to.




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