Hello,

I'm using Gossamer links on 2 different areas of my site. One area consist of a fairly standard version of links 2.0. No problems there at all. The other area ,screen saver list, I have used the links program to jump to actual downloads of my screen savers. This area gets about 400-500 visitors per day with 20-30 dead links reported each day . Every link I've checked consistently works fine for me. Could this possibly be a problem caused by different browsers? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Bill Pavlic

Ps: I'm using templates

http://www.free4everyone.com/savers/pages/
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Could be caused by folks 'just havin fun'. You're using the mod that sends you an email when a deadlink is reported, right? Does the message say it checks out OK? If yes, then trust that, ans assume it's a prankster.

Sometimes, they may have clicked a link while the site was down, but later it's fine. You can make the deadlink reporter require the reporter's email address, that'll probably slow things down. I have this same mod on my site, and so far 98% of reports (haven't had too many) are actually bad; usually a page has been moved.

BTW, in your links.html, add a <br /> at the bottom of the file, so there will a small space between the listings. Site looks good!


Leonard
aka PerlFlunkie

What code are you using for the deadlink report?

A way to possibly stop a few of these spams, is by adding something like this into the script (for after they submit the form);


Without seeing the script, its pretty hard to know the variable names/error routines etc; so I'm afraid the above is the best I could come up with.

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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Thanks Andy and Perlflunkie for the help. Well no body likes spam but my main concern was possibly losing visitors because of the dead links. After looking closely at my stats, it seems that you are both right, visitors accessing by bookmarks seems to be increasing...ever so slightly but I am not losing visitors. So I guess there aren't dead links as reported.

Perl thanks for the compliment and I will take your advice and add a space.



Thanks again ,Bill
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