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Fix Broken Social Links
The do-it-yourself version — every step, no gatekeeping.
Take two minutes to fix broken social media links on your website — a header icon that leads to “this content isn’t available” tells customers nobody’s minding the store.
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Why it matters
Why it matters to a trade
A customer may tap a Facebook or Instagram icon to see recent jobs before requesting a quote. If it opens an error, an empty profile or someone’s personal account, the business can look careless.
Broken Social Links — Cahill Web Studio DIY guide
Broken Social Links — Cahill Web Studio DIY guide
The short version
The 2-minute version
- Tap every social icon on your website using your phone.
- Remove broken links, personal accounts and abandoned profiles.
- Keep only the platforms where customers can see current work.
- Make sure each active profile links back to the correct website.
The cost of getting it wrong
What it costs when it’s wrong
For example, an electrician does not need five social platforms. One active Facebook page with recent panels, lighting jobs and service updates gives a customer more useful proof than five logos leading nowhere.
Local SEO and the bigger picture
The traps
The mistakes that make it worse, not better:
- Launching five platforms without having time to post anywhere.
- Linking to personal profiles, login pages or old usernames.
- Showing social icons just because the website template included them.
Search engine optimization built around how local customers search
When DIY stops making sense
DIY is the right call when the links are easy to find and edit. It stops being worth the time when links are hard-coded into the theme, former staff control the accounts or several versions of the same profile need to be recovered or merged.
Your active profiles should support your Google Business Profile and your Review System, not compete with them for attention.
Broken Social Links — Cahill Web Studio DIY guide
The step-by-step — work through it at your own pace
Cahill Web Studio Local SEO Team
Broken Social Links — Cahill Web Studio DIY guide
Step-by-step
Shortcut: everything above, done for you — $595 flat, two weeks, no logins. Reply “do it.”
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- 29+ years serving Vancouver Island trades, retailers & service businesses
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Map Pack Ignition — $595 flat. Your Google listing rebuilt, review engine installed, listings synced, broken links repaired — done inside two weeks, no meeting, no website logins needed. Every item documented.
And the $595 isn’t spent: it converts into a deposit — full credit toward your first month of any ongoing plan within 90 days.
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