Final link QA before an article goes live
A useful article can still send a reader to the wrong destination. Before signing off on a publisher placement, open the draft link and check where it actually lands. Old redirects, a mistyped path or an outdated campaign page can change the reader's experience without being obvious in the copy.
Two practical checks:
A useful article can still send a reader to the wrong destination. Before signing off on a publisher placement, open the draft link and check where it actually lands. Old redirects, a mistyped path or an outdated campaign page can change the reader's experience without being obvious in the copy.
Two practical checks:
- Confirm the visible brand link is a standard clickable link to the agreed destination. Google says it generally discovers links through ordinary HTML links to resolvable web addresses.
- Open the link from the public article, follow any redirect and compare the final page with the approved brief. Note the article URL and destination in the delivery report.
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