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Always double check your links

Wordpress · July 19, 2016

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It’s always good to have a second set of eyeballs on most anything you do.

It's always good to have a second set of eyeballs on most anything you do.

Recently I created a detailed .pdf on how to use a .pdf as lead capture.
And yes, the meta of it all made me giddy!

I originally put the .pdf in my regular media folder and was delivering it via the “thank you” page.  I changed my mind and sent the link to the download in the email ‘thank you’ instead.  (you can read all about why in that post)

Fickle me, I changed my mind yet again and put it in a special download folder I created on my server.  This way I could update the .pdf as I wished and it would always have the same URL.

What I forgot to do was change the download URL I was sending via email.  Doh!

Luckily, my client Sarah sent me an email…

Sarah found a bad link

I quickly fixed the problem and thanked her.  Thank you Sarah!

BTW: She also asked me what a pingback was so I just linked to her site to show her.

But here’s the thing.

No matter how smart you think you are, no matter how routine something is for you, it’s always a good thing to have someone check your work. Always.

I do this all the time. I read a bunch of posts in my feedreader and sometimes catch mistakes. When that happens I try to give the author a heads up (privately).  If you have a blog, I’d love to add it to my feedreader as well.  If I see something, I’ll tell you*.

*typically I spot spelling and grammatical errors and don’t usually check links.  But if you need link checking I’ve written about a link checking plugin before, and there’s always a browser extension like Check My Links (which I also use).

But hey, nobody is perfetc, right? If you see something amiss, please say something.  Together we can make the internet a better place. 🙂

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