How to Find Broken Partner Links on Your Website

Short answer: Use a partner-link-aware crawler like Partner Revenue Guard's Link Discovery to scan your site and identify all affiliate and partner links, then check each one for HTTP errors, redirect issues, and landing page problems.

Why Broken Partner Links Are Different from Broken Links

A generic broken link checker finds all 404s on your site. But for partner and affiliate teams, the critical question is: which broken links are costing you money?

Partner Revenue Guard specifically identifies links to affiliate networks, partner tracking systems, and referral URLs — then tells you which ones are broken and how much revenue is at risk.

Step-by-Step: Finding Broken Partner Links

1. Start with your homepage or key landing pages. Paste the URL into Link Discovery.
2. Review the results. Each discovered link is classified as healthy, broken, degraded, or unverifiable.
3. Focus on broken and degraded first. These are actively losing revenue or at risk of doing so.
4. Check the details. See the exact status code, redirect chain, and landing page for each link.
5. Fix or replace. Update the link URL, contact the partner, or remove the link if the program has ended.
6. Import and monitor. Add the fixed links to continuous monitoring so you catch future breaks automatically.

Common Causes of Broken Partner Links

• Partner changed their domain or URL structure
• Affiliate program was paused or ended
• Tracking link expired or was reconfigured by the network
• Your CMS or plugin updated and modified the URL
• A redirect chain broke during a partner platform migration

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