> Internal broken links can be a big problem since generally (not
> always) your home page has the most pagerank or linking power, with
> broken links that power isn't being passed around as efficiently as
> possible.  Another aspect is that the anchor text of the link has as
> much to do with what the page ranks for as the content on the page,
> with a broken link you are not sending that important signal to the
> page.

> 404s and redirects are all part of a mature site, but they should come
> from the outside not from your own internal linking structure.  If
> you've recently cleaned that up, expect your deeper pages to get a
> bump.

> On Mar 16, 9:11 am, N-H-P wrote:

> > On Mar 6, 5:04 am, Natural Health wrote:

> > > This isn't random Chit-Chat when you are the only one taking part in
> > > the discussion.  It's either only random Chit or random Chat, but not
> > > chit-chat.

> > The SERPs indicate that the above blog of mine is in fact doing quite
> > well.  :)

> > In a couple of months, I  should own ALL three (3) keywords that I am
> > targeting.  Your recent absence;  Ha, ... Hah, Ha; should as planned
> > pretty well destroy whatever standing your hate blog had in the
> > SERPs.  :)

> > The current status of my main website is pretty hard to figure out.  :
> > (

> > In December 2006, at the height of the success of my home page when it
> > was in the top ten of the SERPs total referrals to my entire website
> > from Google had actually declined by 50% from September 2006.   In
> > October, total hits to my site declined 25%.  By December, another
> > 25%.  In January, the bottom fell out.  But, what ever happened and
> > for what ever reason took place over several months.  Currently, my
> > main website is on the road to recovery as my site statistics are
> > steadily improving each month. :)

> > I have cleaned up and fixed all the broken links.  Perhaps, that was
> > my main problem?