EzineArticles Provides Free Link Diagnostic Tool To Article Marketers
EzineArticles has implemented a diagnostic tool that tells article authors when they have broken links in their articles. At first thought, this seems like a useless tool for an article directory. After all, article marketers ought to know their URLs and ensure that every link in their articles and resource boxes are not broken.
I agree that article marketers should be careful. But if you write a lot of articles and you update your website at some point then you could end up with a few broken links. This is probably more prevalent among local business owners who may move their website from a free host to their own domain and then forget to go back and update the links in their articles. Just think what that could do to your traffic, to forget about updating the links in hundreds of your articles at several article directories.
This tool is good and it’s these kinds of innovations that keep EzineArticles in a leadership role in the article marketing arena. I don’t know of any other article directory that is doing this. None. And this is just one more reason that EzineArticles will continue to be a leader.
The diagnostic tool will prove valuable to article marketers. If anything, it will get article marketers who have abandoned their EzineArticles accounts back to EzineArticles to perform some maintenance on their articles. I’m sure that is badly needed. When you think about all the small business people who write 10 articles then give up on article marketing because they don’t see it working within the first month then it all makes sense. Even then, it should be a useful tool for veteran article marketers as well. If you do, by some cosmic mistake, upload a new article and mistype an URL in your author resource box then you have a tool that will point it out for you. No longer will you have articles with broken links circulating around the Web not helping you at all. After all, there is no benefit to article marketing if your resource box links are broken.
