Linkhale – Affiliate Link Checker For Amazon Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
Linkhale finds the Amazon affiliate links on your WordPress site that earn nothing — a link with no tracking ID, a link that pays someone else’s ID, an ID meant for another Amazon store — and fixes them in bulk, in your content itself, with a preview of every change and an undo for each one. It works entirely on your site: it never contacts Amazon or any outside service, so an Amazon link is never reported as broken just because Amazon turned away an automated check.
Open Linkhale and it walks you through the first scan in about a minute: it lists the tracking IDs in your newest posts with the one used most on each store already ticked, you confirm which are yours, it scans the whole site with a progress bar, and it tells you in plain words what it found, with the biggest fixes as buttons. Nothing on your site changes until you choose a fix.
Links that earn nothing
A link with no tracking ID, with somebody else’s ID, or with an ID for a different Amazon store pays you nothing when a reader buys. Linkhale lists every one, says in plain words what each one costs you, and offers the fix next to it. It also points out a link that carries more than one ID (Amazon uses one, and you cannot tell which), a link that still goes through the closed AmazonSmile service, and a short link that hides which ID it carries.
Missing or wrong tracking ID
Add your tracking ID to every Amazon link that has none, or put the right store’s ID on a link that carries the ID of another store — on one link, one post, the links you select, or everything a filter shows.
Bought a site? Replace the old owner’s ID everywhere
The previous owner’s ID, a guest writer’s, or one that came in with a copied link is found wherever it sits and replaced with yours across the whole site in one go — previewed first, written to the change log, and undoable.
Your Associates tracking IDs, per store
Linkhale shows the tracking IDs it found on your site, store by store, with how many links carry each, and suggests the one used most on each store. You tick the ones that are yours or add one by hand; each is checked for the shape of a real Associates ID. Only an ID you listed here is ever written into a link: Linkhale holds no tracking ID of its own.
Clean, short Amazon links
Long Amazon links full of search and tracking leftovers are cleaned down to the short product link with your ID, and links to the closed AmazonSmile service are moved to the store’s own address. Amazon short links (amzn.to and the like) are read as text and flagged, never opened.
rel=”sponsored” on every Amazon link
Search engines ask for rel=”sponsored” on paid links. Linkhale lists the Amazon links without it and adds rel=”sponsored nofollow” to them in bulk, keeping any rel value a link already has.
Affiliate disclosure
Switch on Amazon’s Associates statement (“As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.”, or your own words) above the content, below it or after its first paragraph, only on posts that hold an Amazon link. Or place it yourself with the Associates statement block or the [linkhale_disclosure] shortcode. It is off until you switch it on, never shows in feeds or excerpts, and never twice on one page. A statement your site already shows on every page — in a widget, your theme’s footer or its settings — is found at every scan, so those pages are not flagged; for a theme that prints it from its code, tick “My site already shows the statement on every page”.
Links that may break Amazon’s rules
Some problems are on the page, not in the address: a price written by hand beside a link, a product picture copied from Amazon’s servers, a page with Amazon links and no Associates statement, a link without rel=”sponsored”. Linkhale flags these so you can look at them. It does not decide what Amazon allows: only Amazon’s Operating Agreement and policies do.
Preview every fix, undo any change
Every fix shows you first what it would change, link by link. When you apply it, each change goes into a change log with the exact text before and after, and you can undo one change or a whole fix. A post someone edited since the scan, a post open in the editor right now and a page-builder layout are never changed — they are listed with what to do instead. Only the link itself changes; everything around it stays byte for byte as it was.
Every place WordPress keeps a link
Posts, pages and custom post types in every status, custom fields (including serialized ones), block attributes, reusable blocks, navigation menus, classic and block widgets, WooCommerce external products, and Elementor, Beaver Builder, Divi and Thrive Architect layouts (read, not changed). A post you save is read again on its own.
Click counts, so the costly link is fixed first
Switch on click counts and Linkhale counts how many times visitors follow each Amazon link: one total per link per day, kept on your site. The Links table and the biggest fixes then put the most clicked links first. No cookie is set and nothing about the visitor is kept — no IP address, no browser details — and search robots are not counted. It is off until you switch it on.
Every link, by post or by product
See your links in one table, by link, by post or by product, filtered by finding, store, tracking ID, post type or status. Search a product number, a title or an address, and download the list as a spreadsheet (CSV) whose cells are safe to open.
Built for big sites
Linkhale reads your site in small batches inside a time budget, so a site with tens of thousands of Amazon links is scanned without a timeout, and a scan carries on by itself if you close the screen. The lists, the export, the fixes and their undo work the same way, a batch at a time.
Nothing leaves your site
Everything Linkhale keeps stays in your site’s own database: the Amazon links it found with their findings, the change log (which names the site user who made or undid each change) and, only when switched on, daily click totals per link. Nothing about visitors is stored. Linkhale adds suggested text to WordPress’s Privacy Policy Guide, and WordPress’s export and erase tools cover the change log. Deleting the plugin removes everything it stored, on every site of a network; deactivating it keeps your data.
How Linkhale is different
- It fixes the link itself, in your content — not only a report, not a change made while the page is shown, not a redirect — and every fix is previewed, logged with the exact text before and after, and can be undone.
- It tells you whose ID each link carries: yours, someone else’s, or one meant for a different Amazon store.
- It looks wherever WordPress keeps links, not only in post content.
- It flags what may break Amazon’s rules on the page, not only the address.
- It never contacts Amazon or any outside service, and holds no tracking ID of its own: it only ever writes an ID you listed.
This plugin does not connect to any external service.
Amazon, Amazon Associates and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Linkhale is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Amazon.
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