Checking for dead Amazon links on your site

[merieke]

Is anyone aware of any plugins, tools, or methods that allow you to scan your wordpress site for outbound Amazon links that are going to products that are no longer available?

I found this old plugin (no longer available) which has the functionality I'm looking for: https://wordpress.org/plugins/check-amazon-link/

I also found that GeniusLink has a subscription service with an Amazon dashboard that can give you these details, but I'm not interested in another subscription service.

I also thought about writing a web scraper for my sites and then parsing output of all amazon links. However, this seems like such a common problem that I assume anyone with a long-standing Amazon affiliate site has already come up with a solution.

Thanks!

 

[yesofcourse]

There is a service that offers this by @jamie3000
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/w...nk-to-their-amazon-affiliate-website.1124556/

 

[Panther28]

You should take a second look at geni.us, they are great,

 

[pro2max]

I am also wondering is there such a plugin ?

 

[merieke]

There is a service that offers this by @jamie3000
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/w...nk-to-their-amazon-affiliate-website.1124556/

Thanks for your suggestion. I'm sure this is a good service, but I'm looking for something to check once every 3 months or so. In that case I don't need something that actively monitors.

 

[merieke]

You should take a second look at geni.us, they are great,

Thanks for the suggestion. I was not really looking for a service that actively monitors links, but is there something else I'm missing why I might want to?

 

[maximiles]

Thanks for your suggestion.

 

[Panther28]

Thanks for the suggestion. I was not really looking for a service that actively monitors links, but is there something else I'm missing why I might want to?

If the product is deleted from amazon, genius will automatically detect and redirect the user to a similar or matching product. Plus it's a handy way to get extra analytics. They are free until you get 10k clicks a month i think it is.

 

[vitle]

Hi, there's one option but it's pay.

Here you can see it https://vivirenremoto.com/affiliate-link-checker/