What is a Link Rot?

Tags: Link Rot, Website Link Rot

Link Rot, also called link death, link breaking, or reference rot, is the phenomenon of hyperlinks tending over time to cease to point to their originally targeted file, web page, or server due to that resource being relocated to a new address or becoming permanently unavailable. A link that no longer points to its target, often called a broken, dead, or orphaned link, is a specific form of dangling pointer.