Update Links

[jrgolfer]

I've designed a website using publisher www.psrealtygroup.com that seems to
work correctly. It is hosted on godaddy.com and I am using Traffic Blaster.
The traffic Blaster report indicates that I have 13 broken links, which makes
it difficult to spider.

I decided to go back into publisher to to update the links, to see if that
would resolve the issue. When I click on the edit menu, the links command is
grayed out.

Any suggestion on how to fix this issue?

 

[DavidF]

Select the navbar...menu...and you will see "Navigation Bar Properties..."
under Format. Or you can select the navbar and click the wand, and you will
get a Navbar task bar on the left side, and Change navbar options, etc.

Did Traffic Blaster indicate which links were bad?

Be sure to compress your images before you upload again. Publisher 2003 and
2007 do not automatically resample and optimize the images for the web. You
should use the compress pictures feature.

Reference: Compress graphics file sizes to create smaller Publisher Web
pages (2003):
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/HA011266301033.aspx

Reference: Compress Pictures dialog box (2007):
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA100363901033.aspx?pid=CL100605171033

DavidF

 

[jrgolfer]

Thanks for you quick response. It is internal (page to page) links that seem
to be broken.

Upon browsing the site with Filezilla this morning it appears that there are
extra .htm files in my index_files directory. I'm thinking that there are
some older versions of pages under different names out there that may be
causing the problem. I may delete those and see what happens. I figure that I
can always re upload the whole site. if I need to.

I'm also going to try to give each page a name.htm rather than using the
link t o a page in this document option. I can then direct the link to the
actual web page address.

Do these sound like plans?

 

[DavidF]

There is no problem deleting old Publisher generated files from your host,
especially if you are using FTP uploading. You can also give each page a
custom file name if you want. Just go to Tools > Web Page Options and enter
your File name under Publish to the Web. With that said, before you go to a
lot of trouble, spend some time actually finding the broken links that
Traffic Blaster says are there. Open your site, one page at a time and test
the links. You can click on them, you can mouseover the link and look in the
status bar. I wouldn't start a wholesale fix until I found out which links
are broken. I wouldn't trust the results of Traffic Blaster, and assume that
your navbar links aren't working until you test them. Too often these
"greater than sliced bread" web tools give false impressions and results.

Perhaps try Xenu's Link Sleuth to help you find the broken links...if indeed
there are any:
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

DavidF