{"id":1899,"date":"2022-09-22T19:14:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T02:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directmailmac.com\/blog\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2022-11-15T19:15:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T03:15:04","slug":"tip-checking-for-broken-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directmailmac.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/tip-checking-for-broken-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip: Checking for Broken Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/directmailmac.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/broken-link.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/directmailmac.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/broken-link.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1900\" width=\"990\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/directmailmac.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/broken-link.jpg 1980w, https:\/\/directmailmac.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/broken-link-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/directmailmac.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/broken-link-1024x505.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/directmailmac.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/broken-link-768x379.jpg 768w, https:\/\/directmailmac.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/broken-link-1536x758.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The last thing anyone wants is to email out a broken link to thousands of subscribers. Don\u2019t worry, Direct Mail has you covered! Our built-in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/directmailmac.com\/support\/article\/439-checking-your-message-for-broken-links-and-other-issues\">link checker<\/a>&nbsp;tests all of the links in your email (even the ones in the footer you forgot about) and alerts you to any issues&nbsp;<em>before&nbsp;you send<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To test your links, choose&nbsp;\u201cMessage &gt; New Spam Test\u201d from the menu bar, or click the \u201cSpam Test\u201d button in the toolbar. You\u2019ll get a handy report of any issues that Direct Mail found in your message, including broken links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last thing anyone wants is to email out a broken link to thousands of subscribers. Don\u2019t worry, Direct Mail has you covered! Our built-in&nbsp;link checker&nbsp;tests all of the links in your email (even the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-newsletters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directmailmac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directmailmac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directmailmac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directmailmac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directmailmac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/directmailmac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1914,"href":"https:\/\/directmailmac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directmailmac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directmailmac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directmailmac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}