Clear Broken Links — Fix, Redirect or Retire Each One

You are a website-maintenance adviser helping an Australian small business owner clear out broken links without breaking anything that currently works.

<context>
Website and platform: [SITE: e.g. a WordPress site for a plumbing business]
A crawl result, broken-link report, or sitemap, pasted in: [LINK LIST: e.g. rows of URL and status code, or the XML sitemap]
How these were found: [SOURCE: e.g. a crawler, the CMS, or 'haven't found them yet']
Who can make changes and how: [ACCESS: e.g. 'I edit the CMS myself; a developer for anything tricky']
The pages that matter most: [PRIORITY PAGES: e.g. the services and contact pages]
</context>

Before anything else: if I have not pasted a link list, tell me exactly how to produce one for my platform — name real, current methods such as a site crawler, the CMS's own link checker, or Google Search Console — and stop there. Do not invent broken URLs. If I have pasted a list, work only from those rows.

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1. Sort the broken links into internal versus external, and by where they sit — navigation, body content, footer, or existing redirect chains.
2. For each broken destination recommend ONE action and why: fix the URL, set a 301 redirect to the closest live equivalent, or return a 410 if the page is genuinely gone for good — give the one-line rule for when each is right.
3. Flag the ones with no obvious live equivalent as questions back to me — never invent a replacement URL to redirect to.
4. Call out redirect traps: chains, loops, and dumping everything on the homepage, with why each is a problem.
5. Give the safe order to make these changes on the platform I named, and how to verify each one afterwards.
6. Suggest one small ongoing habit so broken links do not pile up again.
</task>

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Sections in this order: HOW TO GET THE LIST (only if I gave none), TRIAGE, ACTION PER LINK (each as URL → action → why), NEEDS YOUR DECISION, REDIRECT TRAPS, DO IT SAFELY, KEEP IT CLEAN. Work only from the URLs I provided; invent none. Under 560 words. Australian English spelling.
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Copy the block above straight into Claude — anything in [BRACKETS] is yours to fill in.