Blogger Tip #2: Checking Blog for dead links

Did you know your blog might have a bunch of dead links that you are still linking to?
The recent Bloggiesta weekend revealed that I hadn't checked for this ever.

To check for dead links, you can go to http://validator.w3.org/checklink
This will check for dead links in your blog, website or any webpage and give you a complete list. When I tried it, I got about 85 links that the site said I had to manually check - most of those were "Tag searches" and worked fine on clicking.

Blogger Tips Series: 

#1 John Updike's rules for reviews

Bloggiesta Mini Challenges

Links go to Bloggiesta Mini Challenges I've participated in:

• Sidebar cleanup 
• Removed 4 widgets from my sidebar, still need to add goodreads and other social icons.
• Reviews that stand out
•  Edited review of The Year of the Griifin
• 5 Tips to review faster
• Worked on a post for next week
• Pinterest links on the side bar and on each post
• 20 Comments to build up your blog relationships 
  
• Sign up for a mini-challenge 
• I signed up for the Goodreads challenge to read 100 books in 2012 

Follow #bloggiesta on my twitter for current commentary!

Bloggiesta Time - It's time to FIESTA!

PEDRO: Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize.

It's bloggiesta time around here - and I JUST realized it! So I'm late to this weekend, but I can do the event on Sunday, Monday instead. What's Bloggiesta you ask?


The idea behind Bloggiesta is
to spend these next two days working on
(1) perfecting our blogs, and
(2) connecting with other bloggers doing the same thing

My *continously updated* goals:

1. Back up blog and all the posts (Done! Thanks to S. Leighanne for the know how)
2. Include twitter/goodreads/pinterest etc buttons (still trying)
3. Clean up side bar by removing at least 3 widgets (Deleted Blogroll. Removed Communities, Book challenges and moved them to Pages here)
4. Check blog for dead links
5.  Add blog and goodreads to my Google+ profile
6. Can I autopost to Facebook and Google+ ? (Help!)
7. Prep 5 posts or 10 post ideas for future emergency updates (4 done)
8. Add to my Amazon reviews (currently 5 are here)
9. Visit 25 other bloggiesta participants 
10. Change comment form to in-line with posts (Have also removed the Captcha, feel the difference?)
11. Participate in 3 mini-challenges (Pinterest challenge & others)
12. Understand and link Pinterest to blog  - http://pinterest.com/deerao/)
13. Get 10 new followers - If you follow me, let me know - I follow back! (2 done)

    ¡Ole!