There are numerous free link checking scripts that will spider a website and report any broken links. It’s one solution for checking affiliate links, but there’s much more to it if you want to really know what’s the current status of your affiliate links.

Here are areas where Affiliate Link Checker far outshines any broken link checking script:

1. You have a central repository where you can store and categorize all your affiliate links. In other words, you can keep a record of all your links and all the web properties where you’re using your link.
2. The service not only checks whether a link is broken or not, it also tests whether it goes to the landing page where you expect it to go.
3. In addition, it also inspects the content of the final landing page and will alert you if certain words appear on the page (such as “out of stock”), or when certain words don’t appear on the landing page (such as a specific item price).
4. The service follows header redirects (301 and 302), JavaScript redirects, and META refresh redirects. Additionally, it can follow a chain of redirects. So, if an affiliate network redirects your link to a company web page, and that page again redirects the link to another page, Affiliate Link Checker will follow the redirects to the final landing page. It will follow an unlimited number of sequential redirects. Very few broken link checker scripts can do that.

If you’re serious about your affiliate business and managing your affiliate links, then Affiliate Link Checker is the service for you.

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