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How to monitor a site for broken links in GuardYak

Broken links frustrate visitors and hurt search rankings, and nobody notices them until a client does. The link checker crawls a site on a schedule and lists every link that fails.

Before you start

  • A GuardYak account (the free plan includes website checks)

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Transcript

Find every broken link on a site, and keep checking it automatically.

Open the Link Checker and select Add domain.

Name it, paste the site address, and choose how often to crawl. Weekly is plenty for most marketing sites.

Select Add. The first crawl starts right away. When it finishes, the card shows how many broken links were found, and you can open the list to see each one and the page it's on.

Steps

  1. Add a domain ▶ 0:06

    In Link Checker, select + Add domain.

    Link Checker page with the Add domain button highlighted

  2. Enter the site ▶ 0:09

    Enter a Label and Site URL, then choose a Crawl frequency.

    Add domain form with label, site URL and weekly crawl frequency

  3. Start crawling ▶ 0:17

    Select Add. The domain shows crawling… until the first crawl finishes.

    Link Checker card for the new domain with its crawl status
ResultThe domain appears with its crawl status, and broken links are listed after the first crawl.

Next steps

Updated 2026-10-26