All the lousy details are here. But I've used teh Blogger, teh TypePad, and teh WordPress for teh blog. And they all have their great points, and their weaknesses. Anyway, I've landed on teh Blogger again. But all these changes over the years have meant that some things need to be cleaned up. And I hate doing that. But, I gotta.
One of the most aggravating things is, during the transfer of some posts from one platform to another, I broke some links. How many links? Well, teh Google has a service called Webmaster Tools. And the latest report says I have 556 broken links.
Now, some of these links are to Websites that have gone dark. But the vast majority of them are links that are simply broken and can be fixed. Let me explain.
When we were on teh WordPress, we often made links like this:
- /2009/01/my-post/
- http://basilsblog.net/2009/01/my-post/
But, I knew that on a Web page, if you leave off the "http://" part, it would automatically put it there for you. That's why these are essentially the same link:
- /2009/01/my-post/
- http://basilsblog.net/2009/01/my-post/
- www.imao.us/about/
- http://www.basilsblog.net/www.imao.us/
But back to this little blog's 556 broken links...
I had many links like that. Those are all broken. For two reasons.
First, on teh Blogger, if you put a link with no leading domain, and just make one like this:
- /2010/02/my-post.html
- http://www.blogger.com/2010/02/my-post.html
If all this is confusing, the thing to learn from it is, you can't take shortcuts with links on teh Blogger.
And I've got a butt-load of those kind of links.
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
But, had I done the link in the standard way, I'd still have a problem.
WordPress uses a different naming style than does Blogger. So, the pages have slightly different names. And, on them Internets, slightly different means way different.
So, though I might have created some issues, if I had done different, I'd still have just as many broken links.
Today, I begin fixing the links. Because I care. Would any other blogger do that for you? No. Because they're selfish. And self-centered.
I bet they even have their own name in their custom URL.
I'll check back in JEWVEMBER when you finish fixing links....
ReplyDeleteUmmm...Basil, you am a better man than I'm iz...
ReplyDeleteI'd just figure nobody cared about anything I wrote in the past. Of course, I figure nobody cares about anything I write in the present, too.
And, I AM CORRECT!
I forgot about "JEWVEMBER." I thought it was "JEW LIE."
I'm thinking it might take a bit on this. I wish I hadn't even checked the stats, now.
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