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Broken link checking that emails you the day a partner page goes dark.

Sites change without anybody checking. A partner renamed themselves. A blog post got deleted. A redirect quietly turned into a loop. SiteGuardian crawls the pages you add on a schedule, and emails you one short sentence when a link no longer resolves.

What this tool does in one sentence
SiteGuardian crawls the pages you add on a daily cadence, follows each redirect chain up to a safe hop count, and emails you one short sentence per broken link with the URL and the page it was found on.
Best for
Resource pages, partner directories, and link-heavy footers where a partner rename or a quietly-deleted blog post silently demotes SEO page by page before the bounce rate shows up in analytics.
Compared to
A one-shot 404 scanner — SiteGuardian runs the same crawl daily and surfaces redirect loops and redirect-to-404 chains as their own alert, not just a status-code list.
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Broken link checking in depth

  • What it is

    A daily crawl, one short email per breakage

    1. Add the URL you want crawled — a sidebar-heavy /resources page, a partner directory, a footer that links to old campaigns.
    2. SiteGuardian parses the HTML the way a search engine does, follows redirects up to a safe hop count, then logs every URL that no longer resolves.
    3. The broken link is the message: one short email per broken URL, with the page it was found on named in the body.

  • Why small businesses run it

    A handful of broken links, quietly demoted

    1. Search engines quietly demote pages with scattered broken links — page by page, not all at once.
    2. Customers find the broken link first, bounce, and the bounce never reaches your analytics as a fix-this-now signal.
    3. The daily cadence catches each breakage the day it happens — before a customer finds it and before the SEO takes the hit.

  • What the alert email looks like

    Broken link found. URL + source page.

    1. Subject: SiteGuardian — broken link on https://yoursite.com/partners/.
    2. Body: the broken URL, the HTTP status, and the page each broken link was found on.
    3. A redirect-loop or a redirect-to-404 chain shows up with its own wording. The fix is one redirect away, not an audit.

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