LinkRescue is an automated affiliate link monitoring tool that crawls your content archive daily to find broken links, stripped tracking parameters, expired offers, and silent attribution failures that are costing you commissions.

How does LinkRescue detect broken affiliate links?

LinkRescue crawls your site via sitemap or page-by-page discovery, extracts all outbound links, and checks each one for HTTP errors (404, 500), redirect chains, missing tracking parameters, soft 404 pages, and content changes that indicate an expired or deprecated offer.

What does LinkRescue cost?

LinkRescue has a free Starter tier (1 site, 200 pages, weekly scans), a Pro tier at $29/month (5 sites, 2000 pages, daily scans, API access), and an Agency tier at $79/month (25 sites, unlimited pages, hourly scans, webhooks, whitelabel reports).

How much revenue am I losing to broken affiliate links?

Studies show that 5-15% of affiliate links break within 6 months due to program changes, URL updates, and merchant site redesigns. For a site earning $5,000/month in affiliate revenue, that could mean $250-$750/month in lost commissions from links you don't know are broken.

Does LinkRescue have an API?

Yes. Pro and Agency plans include API access for programmatic link checking. There is also an npm SDK, a GitHub Action for CI/CD integration, and webhook support on the Agency tier for real-time notifications.

The Affiliate Agency Playbook: Auditing 25 Client Sites in One Afternoon

If you run an affiliate agency — the kind that manages 5, 10, or 25 client sites — link rot is a problem you cannot outrun manually. Every client's content compounds. Every month, more links, more pages, more ways for revenue to quietly leak out.

The agencies we've talked to fall into one of three camps:

The "we'll check if a client asks" agency. Never audits proactively. Gets blindsided once or twice a year when a client notices their earnings dropped.
The "we spot-check manually" agency. A few hours per client per quarter. Misses 80% of breakage between audits.
The monitored agency. Knows the health of every client site at any moment. Bills for it.

This post is a practical playbook for becoming the third kind.

Why Agencies Lose More to Link Rot Than Solo Creators

A solo affiliate with 50 pages can sort of get by with a manual check every few months. The math changes completely when you manage 25 clients with 500 pages each.

At 25 clients × 500 pages = 12,500 pages to audit. If you manually check one page per minute (optimistic), that's 208 hours — five full work weeks — to audit everything once. By the time you're done, the pages you checked first are already stale.

Worse, the blast radius of a missed broken link scales with client size. A broken Amazon link on a small solo site loses $30/month. The same broken link on an agency-managed authority site can lose $2,000+/month before anyone notices.

Agencies that monetize on a percentage-of-client-revenue or retainer + bonus model are directly losing their own income every hour those links stay broken.

The 4-Hour Agency Audit — Step by Step

Here's the exact process for getting from "no idea what's broken" to "complete visibility across all 25 client sites" in one focused afternoon.

Hour 1: Import + Baseline Scan

Add every client site to LinkRescue Agency ($79/mo — 25 sites, unlimited pages, hourly scans). The initial scan runs in parallel, so all 25 sites start checking at once.

While the scan runs:

Tag every site with the client name, their affiliate network (Amazon Associates, ShareASale, CJ, Impact, custom), and their retainer tier.
Set priority levels. High-revenue clients should scan hourly. Lower-revenue can run daily. Free clients on your newsletter list can run weekly.
Add webhook endpoints for your Slack workspace. Every broken link posts to a channel by client tag.

Most 500-page client sites complete the first scan in 15-25 minutes on the Agency tier. Don't stare at the progress bar — go to hour 2.

Hour 2: Triage the First Wave

By the end of hour 1, you'll have a list of broken links per client. Sort by estimated revenue impact, not count. One broken Amazon link on a top-ranking page beats 50 broken links on archived content.

A useful triage matrix:

| Priority | Criteria | Action | |---|---|---| | P0 — Fix today | Top-10 traffic page, high-commission product, currently earning | Personally fix or hand to the client as a "we found this" win | | P1 — Fix this week | Mid-traffic page, active affiliate, recoverable with a replacement link | Add to the weekly client report | | P2 — Monitor | Low-traffic page, seasonal product, niche network | Let the monitoring system watch it | | P3 — Archive | No traffic, outdated content, deprecated program | Flag for client to decide: fix or remove |

For each P0 you find on day one, screenshot it for your next client review. "We caught 4 broken links on your top-earning review page this morning — here's what they were and what we replaced them with" is worth more than any dashboard you could show them.

Hour 3: Set Up Recurring Intelligence

This is the part most agencies skip. Finding broken links once is not a service — it's a one-time audit. The recurring value is the monitoring infrastructure on top.

Configure for each client:

Hourly scans on their top 50 revenue pages (use page tags to bucket these).
Daily full-site scans on the remaining pages.
Slack alerts for any broken link on a tagged revenue page (skip the low-priority noise).
Monthly white-label health report auto-emailed to the client with your agency logo, sent on the 1st.
Quarterly health score trend — is their link rot getting better or worse over time?

If a client has a CMS you can access (WordPress, Webflow), also set up a scheduled monthly "fix sweep" where you batch-replace known broken links during a 2-hour block. Charge for this as a line item or roll it into the retainer.

Hour 4: Write the Client-Facing Playbook

The audit is worthless if clients don't know what you did. In your final hour, write a one-page doc for each tier of client:

For high-touch retainer clients: "We now monitor your site hourly. Here's the dashboard link, the health score as of today, and the 3 things we fixed this week."
For lower-tier clients: Monthly white-label report explaining what was scanned, what was found, what was fixed, estimated revenue protected.
For prospects: "Free site health audit" — run a single scan, turn the output into a branded PDF, use it as a lead magnet for your next sales conversation.

You now have the monitoring infrastructure, the client-facing deliverable, and the recurring deliverable that justifies a higher retainer.

What Agencies Actually Charge for This

Agencies that bolt monitoring onto an existing retainer typically add $200-500/month per client for "link health monitoring + monthly report + priority fix window."

Run that math on 10 clients:

10 clients × $300/month = $3,000/month recurring
Your cost on the Agency tier: $79/month
Net margin: $2,921/month for something that runs automatically

Even at 5 clients you're 3x'ing the tool cost every month, with a deliverable that genuinely protects client revenue.

See what's included on the Agency plan →

The Specific Features That Matter for Agencies

A lot of link checkers exist. Most of them are built for solo bloggers scanning one site at a time. The pieces that actually matter when you're running an agency:

Unlimited pages per scan

Solo tools often cap pages (200, 500, 1000). Agency sites can exceed this on a single category. If you're scanning a 2,000-page authority site, you need no cap.

Hourly scan frequency

Weekly scanning is fine for a solo affiliate. For an agency managing clients whose revenue peaks during seasonal campaigns (Black Friday, holiday, back-to-school), you need hourly visibility. A broken link on December 1st shouldn't wait until December 8th to get caught.

White-label monthly reports

Clients don't want to log into someone else's dashboard. They want a PDF with your agency logo on it, sent to their inbox on the 1st of every month, showing the work you did.

API + webhooks

You will want to pipe broken link events into whatever internal tooling you already have — project management (Asana, Linear, ClickUp), Slack, your own client reporting dashboard. The API and webhook endpoints make this straightforward.

Revenue impact estimates

Clients care about dollars, not link counts. A tool that says "3 broken links" isn't useful. A tool that says "3 broken links, estimated $420/month in recoverable commissions" justifies your retainer.

The One-Page Sales Talking Point

When a prospect asks "what do I get for the retainer," here's the line:

"We monitor every affiliate link on your site every hour, catch issues within minutes of them breaking, and fix them during our weekly fix windows. Last month we caught X broken links across Y pages and protected an estimated $Z in monthly commissions. You get a white-label health report on the 1st of every month."

That's a real service, not a vague "we manage your affiliate stuff."

Who Should Run This Playbook

This workflow pays for itself at 3 clients or more. If you manage 10+, it's negligent not to have something like this running.

If you manage a single site (your own), the Pro tier is enough. If you manage 5-25 clients, this is what the Agency tier was built for.

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The Affiliate Agency Playbook: Auditing 25 Client Sites in One Afternoon (2026)