Links rot. Pages get deleted, campaigns end, partners restructure their URLs — and every dead end quietly costs you rankings and trust. We crawl your site on a schedule, flag every broken link in your dashboard, and when you want them fixed, that’s real hands — not a blind auto-redirect.
Nobody clicks through their own site weekly. So the person who finds the broken link is usually a customer.
Search engines follow the same links your visitors do. A broken internal link is a dead end for both: the page behind it stops being found, and whatever authority the link was passing goes nowhere. Enough dead ends and a site starts reading — to crawlers and to people — like nobody is looking after it.
Visitors are less patient than crawlers. Someone mid-research or mid-checkout who hits “Page not found” doesn’t file a bug report; they leave. And on a client site it’s worse — the person who reports the broken link is the client, and the question that arrives with it is “what am I paying for?”
None of this happens because anyone did something wrong. Link rot is entropy, not an event — the only defence is checking on a schedule, and nobody clicks through their own site weekly. That’s the entire reason this exists.
We crawl your site the way a visitor would — following the links your pages actually contain — on a recurring schedule. Nothing to trigger, nothing to remember. That last part is the point.
Every broken link the crawl finds lands in the same dashboard as the rest of your site's record — updates, backups, uptime. One place to look, not another tool to check.
Download findings as a CSV any time — for a content editor, a redirect plan, or your own records. It's your data; take it wherever the work happens.
The crawl runs from the outside — no plugin, no agent. So it works on Next.js, static and custom-stack sites exactly as well as it works on WordPress.
Broken-link monitoring is included on every plan, Economy up — and it’s part of the monitoring-only mode for non-WordPress sites, because a crawl doesn’t care what your site is built on.
Some tools promise to fix broken links automatically — usually a blind unlink or a guessed redirect. Honest version: fixing a link is a judgment call. Sometimes the URL moved and needs updating. Sometimes the right move is a redirect. Sometimes the linked page should come back from the dead, and sometimes the sentence around the link needs rewriting. A script can’t tell which, so we don’t pretend ours can.
What actually happens: the crawl flags, and fixes are done by the team as hands-on work. On Standard and Extended that usually fits inside your plan’s included monthly tasks — two 1-hour tasks on Standard, four 2-hour tasks on Extended. Beyond that, or on Economy, it’s billed at your plan’s hourly rate — always quoted before we start, never after.
Broken links are the slow leak; downtime is the burst pipe. Uptime checks watch the whole site from multiple regions — every 5 minutes on Economy, every minute on Extended.
A page can return 200 and still be broken. Visual regression screenshots desktop and mobile and pixel-diffs against approved baselines — so layout breakage gets caught like link breakage.
Broken links are the surface layer. The bundled Webmatik growth audits go deeper — technical SEO, keyword positions, content gaps, Core Web Vitals — monthly on Standard, twice monthly on Extended.
Send us your URL for a free audit. We’ll tell you what we find — dead ends included — and what we’d do about it. Even if the answer is “your site’s fine.”