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Originally Posted by jtracking
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.
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I appreciate your difference of opinion, but I have seen sites dropped from DMOZ because of broken links and similar quality issues.
And I have cleaned up inherited sites with broken links (more than one or two) and seen them improve in SERPs with no other changes.
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Originally Posted by jtracking
I currently work for a firm that has about 300 pages plus and from the time I started until today there are about 40 broken links AND we're still listed in each of the major search engines...and still ranking on the first and second page for the miriad of keywords we're competing for...
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You're in a perfect position to test it then ... fix your broken links and see if your position improves. I'm sure I can't imagine why those broken links are still there when you know about them.
