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| | David, I sent you part of this message by email, but I added some additional material. Below is the full message to you. | | David, I sent you part of this message by email, but I added some additional material. Below is the full message to you. |
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| − | This message is about fixing Conservapedia's main [[homosexuality]] article so it gets more search engine traffic and has a better user experience. | + | If a website has too many dead links or if a web page has dead links on it's not a good user experience and its bad for rankings. To the search engines, it gives the impression that the website as well maintained if there are too many of them. See: [https://www.searchenginejournal.com/link-rot-solutions/349270/ Link Rot – What it Is and How it Affects Rankings]. |
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| | + | This message is about fixing Conservapedia's main [[homosexuality]] article and other Conservapedia articles so they receive more search engine traffic and have a better user experience. |
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| | Webpages that are long-form content very often rank for many keywords - not just the keyword that the article is titled. | | Webpages that are long-form content very often rank for many keywords - not just the keyword that the article is titled. |
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| | I have done computer programming professionally and I think I may be learning some additional programming skills, but at this point, I think David/Andy are more proficient programmers than me. I am rusty and I don't think the computer languages that I have programmed in would be able to automate this process. | | I have done computer programming professionally and I think I may be learning some additional programming skills, but at this point, I think David/Andy are more proficient programmers than me. I am rusty and I don't think the computer languages that I have programmed in would be able to automate this process. |
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| − | Lastly, this process could be done for other important Conservapedia articles as well or perhaps all of Conservapedia's articles if the process is automated. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 16:17, September 22, 2023 (EDT)
| + | Next, this process could be done for other important Conservapedia articles as well or perhaps all of Conservapedia's articles if the process is automated. |
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| | + | While there are tools that work with a browser to tell the dead links on a page, there are tools that will tell a webmaster where all of the dead links on a website are such as this one: https://ahrefs.com/broken-link-checker I possibly have access to some paid SEO tools that could possibly tell Conservapedia all of the dead links on a website, but perhaps the various plans with such tools that I have access to do not cover crawling a whole website for dead links. But I believe this tool still works and it is free: https://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 16:53, September 22, 2023 (EDT) |