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Target keyword: broken affiliate link monitor

Post: content/blog/broken-affiliate-link-monitor.md
Explains what a broken affiliate link monitor is and why it's categorically different from a one-time spot check — aimed at affiliate bloggers who have never set up continuous monitoring. Opens with the "flat income despite stable traffic" pain point, walks through how monitoring works (crawler → link checker → alert loop), grounds the stakes in the 27.2% broken-link-rate data from the existing study, and routes readers to the free CLI as the entry point.

Reddit draft: content/reddit-drafts/2026-05-12-reddit-drop.md

I've been poking around the "affiliate link monitoring" space and ran the free LinkRescue CLI against ~25 affiliate content sites. 27% of outbound links were broken.

The weirder finding: the sites with the most broken links weren't the smallest or newest — they were mid-size sites with 2–3 year old content still ranking well. Old posts, sending traffic to dead pages. Nobody noticed because income was "roughly flat."

The baseline fix isn't a tool. It's just checking. Run npx linkrescue scan yoursite.com (free, no signup) on your top 10 pages by traffic. Takes 60 seconds.

Most people posting here asking "why is my income declining" haven't looked at link health. Worth ruling out before assuming the SEO problem is your fault.

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