Posterous Closed: How to Fix Broken Links and Picture or img Links Automatically

Posterous Closed: How to Fix All Your Dead Links and Images

I know you're here because you're pissed off.

If your blog has any dead links and any dead images or pictures, Google will immediately drop you. If you're like me, you can't, you won't afford for that to happen.

But posterous is shutting down and there are three different links that point back to posterous servers even if you thought you were done cleaning up because you used autopost to wordpress, blogger, squarespace, or tumblr:

1. When you autopost, there's a tiny link at the bottom of each blog that says "autoposted via posterous.com" and it links to your soon to be dead posterous blog.

2. Then there's images and videos that you directly uploaded to Posterous. All your <embed> and <img> links will break

3. Finally, there are photos you uploaded as a slideshow. There will be a link under any series of photos or images saying, "see full gallery at posterous.com"

All these links will die. I put about 3 images in each blog and I've got about 300 blog posts. So that means I will have 1,000 dead image links and about 500 dead hyper links.

I'm going to post two solutions for you here:

1. I am currently researching HOW to autoreplace all my posterous image links. I do NOT have a solution YET.

2. Meanwhile, so that I ATLEAST don't lose what's most important to me: my Google ranking, I have a patch I can share with you now: Replace all your "posterous.com" tags: <a href="http://yoursite.posterous.com"> and <img src="blah.server.posterous.com/getfile..." using RegEx to 

"<a rel=..." and "<cite title=..."

Atleast that way, Google doesn't see any dead links or images while I figure out how to actually make the images show back up.

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