The May 3 Online reported the findings of two Nebraska researchers on the subject of “link rot,” a term used to describe the progressive disappearance of Web-based materials linked to online courses. ...

The introduction of Google’s Panda algorithm left webmasters and online business owners alike scrambling. The change was designed to lower the rank of low-quality or "thin" sites and return ...

Plenty of Web content is the information equivalent of a bag of potato chips, created to be consumed and forgotten. Not for scholars, though. Authors and journal editors link to Web-based resources in ...

Google Drive is adding an extra resource key to keep its publicly accessible files more secure. The downside? The move creates broken links for a number of older resources that have been hosted online ...

The Internet Archive, the largest digital library globally, is battling with the escalating issue of a problem known as "link rot," the phenomenon of disappearing web pages. What Happened: The ...

Google’s John Mueller recently said in a Webmaster Hangout that it’s not enough to create a site and wait for traffic. Similarly, it’s not enough to promote a site then sit back and enjoy the traffic.

The phrase “link rot” probably summons many images for you–none of them good. And while clicking on a dead link isn’t quite as physically unpleasant as, say, touching a piece of slimy, disintegrating ...

The Chesapeake Digital Preservation Group has published its annual study of link rot in online legal documents, studying how often web addresses change or go dead. The Chesapeake Digital Preservation ...

It’s one of those annoyances about the Web that make some teachers wonder why they bother. After spending hours over the summer searching online for material to enhance their courses, then bookmarking ...

Just about anyone who's gone online has encountered the message: "Error 404" or page "Not Found." It's what you see when a link is broken or dead — when the ...

The study looked at over 550,000 articles, which contained over 2.2 million links to external websites. It found that 72 percent of those links were “deep,” or pointing to a specific page rather than ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The introduction of Google’s Panda algorithm left webmasters and online business owners alike scrambling. The change was designed to ...