What is splitting of links?

Splitting links are those links which does not redirect visitors to the proper location which they are looking for and mostly it leads to some error pages. They badly affects search engine rankings.

Link splitting means that links should point to to the same URI rather than some to the index page name and others to the directory root.It is requirement to have an index page. A split link is said to be splittable,and a link that is not split is called a non-split link or not splittable.