We frequently see "ghost links" on our website. These are links that don't appear on the page but are being picked up by Siteimprove because some code is still present on the page. This happens when link text is removed from your page but the link itself stays behind, here's how it looks when you view your Siteimprove report:
The area in red is highlighting the broken link which doesn't contain any characters. To fix this the link needs to be removed from the code. If you are not comfortable editing the code view, contact Andrea or Kendra to help remove the link.
How to avoid this type of broken link
To keep this from happening, you need to remove the link before you delete the text. Here's how:
- Edit the page that has the link you want to remove.
- Click anywhere in the link (don't highlight it).
- Click the remove link button in the menu bar
- Then delete the text.
- Save and publish your page.