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.

Wednesday May 21, 2008, saw AffiliateLinkChecker.com opening its doors to the public.

With AffiliateLinkChecker.com, affiliates can automatically test their affiliate links for integrity to ensure that they continue to point to the desired destinations.

Companies often expire offerings, terminate special promotions, terminate affiliate relationships, go out of stock on a product, or experience problems with their websites without notifying their affiliates.

Who loses out? The affiliates, of course, because suddenly their links point to landing pages that will earn them little or zero income, while the company still gets the traffic.

Not any more!

Check your links every day with AffiliateLinkChecker.com. You’re notified when your links go bad on you, and you can act fast to remedy the situation.

In fact, you can check any link, not just affiliate links.

Also check out the link checker affiliate program for cool recurring commissions.