1. Broken Links

This is the first thing that gets your readers angry. It feels so annoying to hit a link and get the boring 404 Error.

Aside pissing your blog readers off with those broken links, broken links can also result in low page rank on top search engines like Google, Bing, Yandex and the others.

How to Check for Broken Links

Fortunately, there is an online service you can use to validate all the links on your blog. What the service does is to scan through your blog to ascertain if there is a dead link(s) on your blog.

So, to check for broken or dead links on your blog simply visit brokenlinkcheck.com and then, enter the URL of your blog in the box provided. Then hit ‘Find Broken Links.’

You should get a complete list of all broken or dead links on your blog. Fix as much as you can or remove the ones that aren’t vital to the contents in view.


2. Frequent Down-Time

This is a known challenge with many self-hosted blogs. Either you are greeted with the annoying “cloudflare error 503 page” or the extremely embarrassing “time out error”.

It is best to remain on the free platforms, if you can’t afford a decent host yet. No need to bore your blog readers with epileptic response time from these budget hosting companies.

My single review of Namesilo has stood the test of time, because my readers found their services as valid. So why not create a budget to switch to a valid host, if your website goes down frequently?

There are many free services to monitor your website’s down-time. Example of those includes-

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