7 Warning Signs Your Website Has Been Hacked
Most hacked sites look normal to their owners. Here are the quiet signs that something is wrong, and what to do in the first hour.
Links break when pages are renamed, products are removed or the sites you link to disappear. Visitors hit a 404 and leave; search engines waste crawl time and trust your site a little less.
Fixing them
- Internal links: update the link, or add a 301 redirect from the old address
- External links: replace with a current source or remove the link
- Redirect chains: point links straight to the final address
A link checker that crawls your whole site lists every broken link with the page it sits on and the link text, so each fix takes seconds.