Scan your website for broken outbound links automatically

Crawls your site's pages, finds broken outbound links, and emails you a summary with the full list in a spreadsheet.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each page in the sitemap.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

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Starts itA stepAn outside serviceRuns once per itemA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
SEO & Search OptimizationEmail AutomationSpreadsheet & Database OpsSecurity & Compliance
Connects
Google SheetsGmail

The problem it solves

Broken links quietly hurt your site's credibility and SEO, but checking every page by hand after a redesign, migration, or partner change isn't realistic. Most businesses only find out when a customer or Google notices first.

Who it fits

SEO professionals, agencies, or website owners who need to keep a site's links working after changes or migrations.

How it works

  1. Starts from your site's sitemap, either on demand or on a schedule
  2. Visits each page and extracts every outbound link
  3. Checks each link to see if it's still working
  4. Records every broken link, with its page and date, in a spreadsheet
  5. Emails a summary once the scan finishes
What you get

Broken links found before customers hit them

You get a full scan of your site's outbound links with every broken one logged in a spreadsheet and summarized in an email.

What you get

A spreadsheet listing every broken link found, plus a summary email with the total count.

What you need

A Google Sheets account and a Gmail account.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

Let's Talk Strategy

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