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Take them down or leave them up?

by DeePower
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I have several hundred articles at a major ezine article site that link back to my websites. Some of the websites are no longer active. Should I change the links in the articles to one of my active sites in the same niche, remove the link, or just leave it pointing to the defunct site?

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  • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
    Given those three options, I'd go for changing the links to a live site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Meaney
    A sudden burst of several hundred links at once might put your site on the Google naughty list...

    But that depends on the niche too, Google is hyper sensitive to IM related topics.

    Like John, I'd also point them to my site..

    I'd do it slowly.
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisBa
    I'd change the links to an active site
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  • Profile picture of the author dana67
    I'd also change the links to an active site, but do it slowly and pace yourself.
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  • Profile picture of the author Edwin Torres
    It depends if your new website is relevant to your past website. Yeah, you could change your dead link to your current site but if the traffic you get from it isn't targeted it's a waste of time.
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  • Profile picture of the author laurencewins
    Depends on the relevancy but if you did the hard work, why waste it? Point the at your own sites bit by bit.
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  • Profile picture of the author George Schwab
    yep, if you change them, slowly, not all at once. that would be dangerous and your site
    can drop suddenly. been there, done that. just deactivate the dead/not functioning ones.
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