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Target keyword: broken affiliate link monitor

Post summary: Targets affiliate bloggers who don't know automated link monitoring exists as a category. Explains what a monitor actually does, why manual quarterly audits don't scale, and walks through the free CLI scan as the entry point — pulling real numbers from the existing 25-site study (27.2% broken link rate) rather than inventing new stats.

Reddit drop (r/juststart):

Title: Ran a link checker against 25 affiliate sites. 27% of outbound links were broken.

Wanted to know how bad link rot actually is on real affiliate sites, so I scanned 25 of them (10 niches, ~250 outbound links total).

27.2% were broken — 404s, dead redirects, expired tracking params. Worst site had 23 broken links on 20 pages. 5 sites were completely clean.

Patterns that stood out:

  • "Last updated 2024" sites had 3-4x the breakage of ones updated in 2026
  • ShareASale merchant closures kept showing up — program shuts down, link 404s, nobody's notified
  • Almost nobody had automated checking. Everyone's just hoping they'd notice a revenue drop

If your site's over a year old and you haven't checked links lately, worth a look. Happy to share methodology if anyone wants to replicate it.

Only touches content/blog/ and content/reddit-drafts/ — no app code changed.


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Adds blog post targeting "broken affiliate link monitor" keyword for
bloggers unfamiliar with automated monitoring, plus an r/juststart
data-drop draft based on the existing 25-site study.
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