Tool to inform dead links

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by arora007 » Thu Dec 16, 2010 10:46 pm

Hi Eric,

I was sifting through the "Student Blogs and Communities" in the Resources section.
https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/resources

when I clicked on one of the links...

Hella’s List
Aggregator of MBA applicant and student blogs.

came to know that it was a deadlink "Error 404 - Sorry, Not Found"

hey..can we have a tool to inform a deadlink ? Just a random thought which came across...

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by beatthegmat » Fri Dec 17, 2010 5:34 pm

Thanks for that heads up--when you say 'tool to inform dead link' do you mean to inform our BTG team that the link needs to be fixed? Just want to clarify.

And yeah, I will fix that now!

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by beatthegmat » Fri Dec 17, 2010 5:36 pm

Ah, this isn't a Beat The GMAT problem--Hella is broken! I thought our link to Hella was broken.

I think this will be fixed on Hella's side soon.

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by arora007 » Sat Dec 18, 2010 4:30 am

beatthegmat wrote:Thanks for that heads up--when you say 'tool to inform dead link' do you mean to inform our BTG team that the link needs to be fixed? Just want to clarify.

And yeah, I will fix that now!

By fixing a link a user would just be informing BTG,
for the BTG team it would be internal handling...
i.e
Either to Fix the link in some time.
Or inform the partner website to fix the link at their end...

I believe I saw the same status of Hella's link about 3-4 months ago.

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by beatthegmat » Sat Dec 18, 2010 11:45 am

Gotcha--and great point too. I am working with someone actually to re-design that page. From your feedback, I think it makes sense to have some sort of form on that page now. That form could be used to let us know about new resources (submitting links), and also to let us know when there is a problem we need to take care of.

And I'll take down Hella's link right now!

Thanks for your awesome ideas, as always!

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