Affiliyo

01/How it works

Follow one link.Through every moment.

A Sony WH-1000XM5 affiliate link, and what happens to it over six months. With Affiliyo watching, and without.

The link we're following:go.affiliyo.com/sony-xm5
Monitored·3× HTTP·1× AI / day·0s alert

Month 1

One review. Five places.

You film your headphones review. The affiliate link goes in the YouTube description, the pinned comment, your Linktree, your newsletter, and the blog post that followed a week later. Five places. Commissions flow.

YouTube · Description
01 / 04

Best over-ear headphones I've tested

47,293 views · 2 weeks ago

Healthy

10/10 for work-from-home calls. Noise cancellation is wild.

Grab them here: go.affiliyo.com/sony-xm5

[affiliate link. I earn a small commission]

Tracked traffic 1,847clicks ·€312commissions
Six months pass

Month 6

The page still loads. Nobody buys.

Amazon rotates the ASIN. Or the product goes out of stock. The URL resolves. HTTP 200 OK. A generic uptime checker says "healthy." The product page says "Currently unavailable." Your audience clicks, finds no buy button, leaves.

Amazon · Product page
02 / 04

Sony WH-1000XM5 Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones

Visit the Sony Store

Healthy

Currently unavailable.

We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock.

Uptime checker

200 OK · passes

Your commissions

−73% over 30 days

Affiliyo runs a daily read

Hour 0

Not a ping. A read.

Every day, Affiliyo reads each destination the way a human would. We see "currently unavailable." We flip the link's status from healthy to broken. One email, the moment the state changes. Not on every check.

Inbox · Affiliyo alert
03 / 04

Affiliyo

alerts@affiliyo.com

Broken
Broken affiliate link detected

One of your links just stopped working.

Link
Sony WH-1000XM5 → Amazon
Managed URL
go.affiliyo.com/sony-xm5
Status
200 OK · Unavailable
Platforms
YouTube description · blog post · newsletter
Detected
2 minutes ago

AI verdict

"Product listing resolves, but the page shows 'Currently unavailable.' No buy-now action. Clicks will not convert."

Update the destination URL in your dashboard. Every platform using this managed link will be fixed automatically. No edits to YouTube, no blog update.

Fix this link
You open the dashboard

Minute 1

Update once. Fix everywhere.

Open the dashboard. Change the destination to the new ASIN. Every YouTube description, Instagram bio, blog post, newsletter, and Linktree entry referencing go.affiliyo.com/sony-xm5 now sends to the new page. No edits to five platforms.

Affiliyo · Dashboard
04 / 04

Managed URL

go.affiliyo.com/sony-xm5

Fixed

Destination

amazon.com/dp/B09XS7JWHH

amazon.com/dp/B0CSHDG6ZR

Used on 5 platforms

  • YouTube description

    Review video · 47k views

  • Instagram bio

    @yourhandle

  • Blog review

    /headphones-review

  • Newsletter broadcast

    Sent to 3,200 readers

  • Linktree

    linktr.ee/yourhandle

Updated across 5 platforms in 2 seconds

02/Two ways in

Monitor-only or managed URLs.

You don't have to pick on day one. Start with monitor-only to try the product against your real links. Upgrade to managed URLs when you want fixes to propagate across every platform in one click.

Monitor-only

Start here. No changes to your content.

Setup effort
Paste or import links. Zero edits to existing content.
What we monitor
The exact affiliate URLs you already posted everywhere.
When something breaks
You get an email. You manually edit each platform the link lives on.
Best for
First-time users. Small catalogs. Testing before committing.

Managed URLs

Upgrade when you want one-click fixes everywhere.

Setup effort
Create a managed slug. Replace your raw URL with it once.
What we monitor
Each managed URL's destination. The real affiliate URL behind the scenes.
When something breaks
You update the destination once in the dashboard. Every platform instantly follows.
Best for
Multi-platform publishers. Evergreen content. Scaling past 20 links.

03/Site Sync

For your own site, all three steps happen automatically.

Everything above applies to every platform you post on. But if your content lives on a site you control. WordPress, Ghost, Webflow, Next.js. Site Sync turns add, monitor, and fix into one install.

Step 1 · Install

One line. In your site's <head>.

Paste the snippet, save, done. Works on any CMS or framework that lets you edit HTML.

site.html
<script async
    src="https://cdn.affiliyo.com/s.js"
    data-affiliyo-key="ws_a8c3f9"></script>
Step 2 · Discover

Within a minute, every link is in Affiliyo.

On install, Site Sync fetches your sitemap and scans every page in parallel. A typical 50–200 page creator blog: done in under a minute.

Site Sync · Running
mysite.com

Scanning pages

47 / 120

Pages scanned

47

Links found

23

ETA

28s

Step 3 · Live-swap

Update one managed URL. Every page updates instantly.

When a destination changes, you update it once in the Affiliyo dashboard. Site Sync rewrites the href on every page of your site in real time. No editing posts, no find-and-replace, no republishing.

What's in your CMS

amazon.com/dp/sony-xm5?tag=mytag

→

What visitors see

go.affiliyo.com/sony-xm5

Works anywhere you control the HTML. For other platforms like YouTube descriptions, newsletters, Linktree, use text parser, Linktree import, or paste manually. Same monitoring, different entry paths.

Related reading

Dig deeper.

Playbook

The 7-step affiliate audit checklist

What to check on every affiliate link, every quarter. Catches what dashboards hide.

Read Answer

How to check a link manually

Five-minute test in private browsing. Verify status, redirect, tag survival, and conversion.

Read Insight

How affiliate links silently die

The four ways a link fails. And why generic uptime checkers miss most of them.

Read

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