{"id":2078,"date":"2016-11-18T11:49:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T11:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2016-11-18T11:49:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T11:49:41","slug":"use-siteimprove-to-find-which-sites-youre-linking-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2016\/11\/18\/use-siteimprove-to-find-which-sites-youre-linking-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Siteimprove to Find Which Sites You’re Linking To"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re asking our editors to make sure that\u00a0all<\/strong>\u00a0links in web content link to the correct destination page<\/strong>. This will reduce the number of broken links in our\u00a0websites<\/p>\n

You can check\u00a0what links are on your website<\/strong>\u00a0and where they are linking to with\u00a0Siteimprove’s Inventory module.\u00a0You can also\u00a0use the\u00a0section link in T4 to link to web pages\u00a0<\/strong>within the content management system.<\/p>\n

Section links in T4<\/strong><\/p>\n

In T4 using\u00a0a section link<\/strong>\u00a0reduces the number\u00a0of broken links on your website<\/strong>. If the\u00a0page\u00a0being\u00a0linked to moves within a site structure the link is maintained. If the page being linked to is deleted the link will be removed from content.<\/p>\n

Over\u00a050% of our websites are now in the content management system, so you can\u00a0link to most central and school websites with a section link<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Find out which\u00a0sites your\u00a0website links\u00a0to<\/h2>\n

Before you can update your website links\u00a0you need to find out what links are\u00a0in your web pages.<\/p>\n

You can use\u00a0Siteimprove’s Inventory module<\/a>\u00a0to see a list of all links used in your website. The inventory also\u00a0helps you\u00a0find the page\u00a0where a particular link is used.<\/p>\n

The inventory\u00a0also shows you\u00a0links that use a redirect\u00a0and\u00a0the correct destination for that link.<\/p>\n

To help you work through your website and update your links you can also export a\u00a0list of links as a\u00a0spreadsheet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

How to use\u00a0Siteimprove’s Inventory module<\/h2>\n

You\u2019ll find a link to the Inventory<\/strong> in the left-hand panel of your Siteimprove report. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Click to\u00a0expand the menu and select ‘Links’ to see the\u00a0list\u00a0of links used in your website content:<\/p>\n

\"Siteimprove<\/a>

Siteimprove Inventory Tab<\/p><\/div>\n

Then search for the\u00a0link<\/strong> or part of the\u00a0link you want to review, eg http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/dental\/<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\"Siteimprove<\/a><\/p>\n

Hovering\u00a0the cursor over the ‘Pages’ column and clicking ‘+’ opens\u00a0a sub-list showing the location of\u00a0all pages where the link is used:<\/p>\n

\"link-locations\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In this example the link\u00a0http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/dental\/about\/facilities\/ can be found in two\u00a0pages. Using the inventory makes\u00a0it easy to identify\u00a0the sections\u00a0in T4 which contain the link.<\/p>\n

Having found the link in T4 you\u00a0can re-link the content\u00a0to the destination page using\u00a0a ‘Section link’.<\/p>\n

Find and\u00a0replace redirected links<\/strong><\/p>\n

When a\u00a0website moves\u00a0into\u00a0the content management system, its address may\u00a0change.\u00a0Pages can move within the site structure or be removed from the site.<\/p>\n

To avoid creating broken links across our websites\u00a0we may use\u00a0a redirect. This takes you from the\u00a0old page address to a\u00a0new location within a site structure. But when a\u00a0redirect expires\u00a0the links in content will\u00a0break<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Use\u00a0the inventory to\u00a0identify which links use a\u00a0redirect\u00a0and update the links so that they point to the correct destination page.<\/p>\n

A link which\u00a0redirects\u00a0is marked in the Links overview\u00a0list as\u00a0301 Moved Permanently.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clicking\u00a0to the right of a link shows you\u00a0where\u00a0the link appears in content.\u00a0Clicking to the left of the link displays the redirect destination page:<\/p>\n

\"Redirect<\/a><\/p>\n

In this example, the link in the content\u00a0is\u00a0http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/dental\/study\/undergraduate\/treatingpatients.htm but the new destination is\u00a0http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/dental\/study\/undergraduate\/.<\/p>\n

As the\u00a0new destination page is\u00a0located in T4\u00a0you can use\u00a0this information to help you\u00a0find the link in the content management system. You can then change\u00a0it to a ‘Section link’.<\/p>\n

Keeping on top of broken links<\/strong><\/p>\n

Broken links on your site cause frustration for the user, and can damage your reputation. It’s important therefore that you keep on top of fixing existing broken links, and pre-empt any future broken links that might occur when redirects expire.<\/p>\n

Using Siteimprove to do this makes the task much easier. We’ll also help you out by sending lists of sites to our editors, after each batch is moved into T4.<\/p>\n

Access to Siteimprove<\/strong><\/p>\n

Request access to Siteimprove<\/a>\u00a0(University Login required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re asking our editors to make sure that\u00a0all\u00a0links in web content link to the correct destination page. This will reduce the number of broken links in our\u00a0websites You can check\u00a0what links are on your website\u00a0and where they are linking to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[59,121,84],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content","category-tools","tag-broken-links","tag-redirects","tag-siteimprove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4082"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions\/2157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}