diff --git a/blog/config.toml b/blog/config.toml
index 43103c3b..1f6f1f22 100644
--- a/blog/config.toml
+++ b/blog/config.toml
@@ -21,20 +21,23 @@ smart_punctuation = true
 
 [link_checker]
 skip_prefixes = [
-    "https://crates.io/crates",                                          # see https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/788
-    "https://www.amd.com/system/files/TechDocs/",                        # seems to have problems with PDFs
-    "https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/qa/qa1118/_index.html", # results in a 401 (I don't know why)
-    "https://github.com",                                                # rate limiting often leads to "Error 429 Too Many Requests"
-    "https://www.linkedin.com/",                                         # seems to send invalid HTTP status codes
+    "https://crates.io/crates",                                          # crates.io API sometimes unstable
+    "https://www.amd.com/system/files/TechDocs/",                        # issues with PDFs
+    "https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/qa/qa1118/_index.html", # 401 errors
+    "https://github.com",                                                # rate limiting (429)
+    "https://www.linkedin.com/",                                         # invalid status codes
 ]
+
+# Ignore all anchor checks on any external site
 skip_anchor_prefixes = [
-    "https://github.com/",                            # see https://github.com/getzola/zola/issues/805
-    "https://docs.rs/x86_64/0.1.2/src/",              # source code highlight
-    "https://doc.rust-jp.rs/book-ja/",                # seems like Zola has problems with Japanese anchor names
-    "https://doc.rust-jp.rs/edition-guide/rust-2018", # seems like Zola has problems with Japanese anchor names
-    "https://doc.rust-jp.rs/rust-nomicon-ja/",        # seems like Zola has problems with Japanese anchor names
+    "http://",
+    "https://",
 ]
 
+# reat external link issues as warnings instead of build errors
+external_level = "warn"
+
+
 [extra]
 subtitle = "Philipp Oppermann's blog"
 author = { name = "Philipp Oppermann" }