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Originally Posted by mjtaylor
A ban, no. A lower ranking, yes. I would say aim for no broken links whatsoever. I don't think one or two will stop you from being in most directories, but if a DMOZ editor found even one, they might use that to reject your site.
Cheers. MJ
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Hey MJT...
I'll have to disagree re
MOZ and even the lower ranking...that would all depend on the overall relativity of the site. In other words if in the search engines eyes the site is pretty decent with respect to content and navigation etc. then a broken link wouldn't affect the site much in any regard, maybe after a very prolonged period of time the issue wasn't resolved then I could see that page being dropped but if the rest of the site still kicks then it still kicks, if the site bites then that broken link my just contribute to the overall terrible ranking or SER.
There was a posting yesturday where the poster mentioned that for their keywords, in google the top site was actually a dead-non-existent page.
Go figure.