What can you infer from the presence of link rot on a web site?

A. The sites publisher must have sold the site

B. The sites publisher did a poor job designing the site

C. The sites publisher has done a poor job maintaing the site

A link rot is the process of a hyperlink on a website being made permanently unavailable.

It can happen for many reasons. Including content being removed for not being legal anymore or for a change in the technology of the platform.

It can even be because of a change of domains, a change in the code, or even because the link expired.

In any of those situations, the reason for a Link Rot is most likely:

C. The sites publisher has done a poor job maintaining the site

That because all the mentioned problems can be solved if you're taking care of your website.