Free Chrome extension
Catch the wrong affiliate tag before you hit publish.
One wrong tag and the commission goes to someone else — usually to whoever you copied the link from. Affiliate Link Inspector scans the page you're on, groups every outbound link, and tells you which ones are right, which are broken, and which it honestly cannot verify.
- Free — no account, no trial
- Runs locally — no server, no tracking
- Never rewrites your links
Amazon links
Your redirects
External links
Every link grouped, every verdict labelled — and a reason behind each one.
What it checks
Five checks that belong in the same pre-publish pass.
Other link tools tell you a link exists. The question that actually matters is whether it's yours and whether it works.
Your tag, verified
Set the Associates tag you expect. Any Amazon link carrying a different one is flagged immediately. A wrong tag doesn't look broken — it just quietly pays somebody else.
Short links handled honestly
An amzn.to link starts as tag hidden — never a false "no tag". If you choose to reveal it, the tool explains the one-real-click cost, asks twice, and saves the answer so it never follows that short URL again. In a QA tool, "can't check" and "checked and wrong" must never share a label.
Your own redirects
Teach it your /go/, /find/ or /recommend/ paths in settings. Your redirect structure is configurable instead of hard-coded.
Paid-link qualification
rel="sponsored" passes, nofollow alone gets a review note, and neither gets a warning. It catches a small markup omission while you are already checking the link.
Every outbound link
Remaining external links are listed in grey as information, not as faults. A well-researched post is full of outbound references — colouring them red would just teach you to ignore the warnings.
Plus the parts you only appreciate on the tenth post: jump straight to any link on the page, highlight them all at once, filter to what needs review, and export the whole scan to CSV or Markdown.
Wrong tag — this link pays someone else
The check nobody else does
Every other tool finds links. This one checks they're yours.
Link checkers and SEO auditors will happily tell you a page has fourteen affiliate links. None of them knows which tag those links carry, so the one failure that costs real money — a link that works perfectly and pays somebody else — passes every check you can currently run.
It happens the same way every time: you copy a product URL from a competitor's post, or reuse an old link from before you changed tags. The page looks right, the link opens the right product, and the commission goes elsewhere. Set your expected tag once and it can't happen quietly again.
Why I built it
I wrote this for my own publish checklist.
I run six affiliate sites. The mistake that kept happening wasn't a broken page or a bad headline — it was a link that looked completely fine and paid nothing: a tag copied along with a competitor's URL, or a short link left unverified. You don't find those by reading the post. You find them months later in a report, if at all.
So I built the check I wanted: open the draft, press one button, see every monetised link and what's wrong with it. I use it on every post before it goes live, which is also why it explains its reasoning instead of just showing coloured dots — I needed to trust it more than I needed it to look clever.
It's free because it's genuinely useful at this size, and because I'd rather you try it than read about it.
What it does with your data
Your scan is not sent to us.
- The scan runs locally. Reading the links on a page needs no server, so there isn't one.
- No account, no analytics, no telemetry. Your settings and expected tag stay in your own browser storage.
- It never rewrites a destination or affiliate tag. The optional Highlight action adds temporary local styling; it does not edit page content.
- Amazon access is asked for at the moment you use it — for the optional live product check or a short-link tag reveal, and only for the domains needed by that action. Declining changes nothing else.
Honest limits
What it can't do — worth knowing before you install.
A checking tool that hides its blind spots isn't worth trusting on the parts it does check.
- A short-link reveal costs one real affiliate click. The tool never follows one automatically. Reveal is per link, requires a second confirmation press, and saves the result locally so the same short URL is never followed twice by the extension.
- The live product check is experimental. Amazon blocks automated checks often enough that the result is labelled, never presented as the final word.
- It checks one page at a time. No site-wide crawl and no monitoring yet. If that's what you need, tell me — it's the next thing I'd build.
Questions
Before you install.
Is it really free?
Yes — no account, no trial period, no card. If a paid tier ever appears it will be for things that need a server, like crawling a whole site or monitoring links over time. Scanning the page you're on stays free.
Does it change my links or my pages?
It never rewrites a tag, swaps a destination, or edits page content. Jump briefly outlines one result, and the optional Highlight action adds temporary local styling so you can see matching links; turning Highlight off or reloading removes it.
Can you see the pages I scan?
No. There is no server on our side to send anything to. The scan happens in your browser, the results are displayed to you, and your settings stay in your browser's own storage. No account, no analytics, no telemetry.
Why does it ask for Amazon access?
A fresh install requests no Amazon access. Check live asks only for marketplaces present on the page. A confirmed Reveal tag asks only for that short link's exact host. Decline either request and only that optional action stops.
What about amzn.to short links?
They're detected and marked tag hidden, not "no tag". Reading the tag means following the redirect, which registers one real affiliate click. If you choose Reveal tag, the warning appears on the button, a second press confirms it, and the answer is stored locally so the extension never follows that short URL twice.
Does it work with programs other than Amazon?
Partly, and honestly: Amazon is where the deep checking lives — ASINs, tags, duplicates. Your own redirect paths (/go/, /find/, anything you use) are covered by custom rules you define. Links to other merchants are listed as external so you can review them, but their tracking parameters aren't validated yet.
Something not answered here? Ask me directly — it's just me.
Where to install
Chrome only for now — I'd rather support one browser properly than three badly. Firefox is a straightforward port once this one has real users.
Check your next post before it earns nothing.
Free, no account, one click on the page you're already looking at. I run it on every post I publish.