VerflinkAffiliate Link Checker
Affiliate links do not just break. They can keep working while quietly losing the tag that pays you. Verflink checks every outbound affiliate link on your site for dead pages, bad redirects, and stripped or changed tracking tags, so you keep the commissions you have already earned. Paste your URL to see what is broken.
What does an affiliate link checker do?
Affiliate links are fragile in two ways. First, the destination can die: a product is discontinued, a merchant moves a page, and the link returns a 404 or times out. Second, and easier to miss, the link can still load a working page but arrive there without your tracking tag, so the sale is credited to no one. That happens when a redirect along the way drops the tag, a plugin rewrites the URL, or a cache serves an old version. Verflink follows each affiliate link through its redirects and checks both that the page loads and that your tag survived the trip.
What Verflink checks
- ✓Broken affiliate links: 404s and destinations that cannot be reached
- ✓Redirect chains that end somewhere unexpected
- ✓Stripped tags: Amazon links that reach the product page with no tag
- ✓Changed tags: a different tag than yours, from a marketplace switch or an overwrite
- ✓Unverifiable forwards: links that hop through a page-level redirect we cannot follow
- ✓Every outbound link on the page, with affiliate links flagged first
How it works
- 1Enter your website
- 2Verflink scans your links
- 3Review broken or problematic URLs
- 4Fix the issues
Why a lost tag costs more than a broken link
A broken affiliate link earns nothing, and at least it is obvious. A stripped tag is worse: the link works, the reader clicks, they buy, and you are credited nothing, all while everything looks fine. Networks change their URL formats, merchants restructure their sites, and a single redirect can quietly drop your tag. For networks like Awin and CJ the tracking is carried in a cookie, so a clean final URL is expected and Verflink accounts for that instead of crying wolf. For Amazon, where the tag lives in the URL, a missing tag on a real product page is flagged clearly. Checking on a schedule protects revenue from clicks you are already getting.
FAQ
What is an affiliate link checker?
A tool that checks whether your affiliate links still work and still carry your tracking tag. It follows each link through its redirects, reports broken destinations, and flags links that arrive without the tag that pays you.
Can Verflink tell if my Amazon tag was removed?
Yes. For Amazon links the tag lives in the final URL, so when a link reaches a real product page with no tag Verflink flags it as stripped. A different tag is reported as changed rather than stripped, since that is usually a marketplace switch.
Does it check Awin and CJ links?
Yes. These networks carry tracking in a cookie set along the redirect, so the final merchant URL is expected to look clean. Verflink recognises this and does not report those as stripped; it confirms the link reaches the merchant.
Why does a link that returns 200 still lose me money?
A 200 means the page loaded, not that you were credited. If the tracking tag was dropped somewhere in the redirect chain, the sale is attributed to no one. That is the case a plain broken-link checker misses and Verflink is built to catch.
How often should I check my affiliate links?
Once a month is a reasonable baseline, and more often if you publish frequently or earn most of your revenue from affiliates. Verflink can run the check automatically each month and email you when something changes.
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