Linkhale – Affiliate Link Checker for Amazon

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. If your theme or another plugin already adds rel="sponsored" when pages are shown, say so in Settings and Linkhale stops listing those links. 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 layout counts only while its page builder is active: when the builder is gone, visitors see the post's own content, so that is what Linkhale reads and fixes. 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. The Overview screen has one ordinary link, "Get early access", to a page about a possible paid service. Nothing is sent when the screen loads; the page opens in your browser only if you click, and your e-mail address reaches us only if you type it there. 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.

1.0.4

• Fixed: when a fix has nothing to change because it left some links alone, the preview now says how many it left alone ("1 link left alone, nothing changed.") instead of "every link here is already fine". The list under "Left alone, and why" still says why for each one.

1.0.3

• Fixed: when a fix leaves a link alone, the "Left alone, and why" line says why once. A page-builder layout read "Page-builder layout: A page-builder layout: …", and a custom field that would not be saved back exactly named the custom field twice.
• Fixed: a page-builder layout counts only while its builder is active. When Elementor, Beaver Builder or Thrive Architect is no longer active, the post's own content is what visitors see, so Linkhale now reads and fixes it. The old layouts are named on the Overview and not counted.
• New: a Settings switch, "My site already marks Amazon links as sponsored when pages are shown", for a theme or plugin that adds rel="sponsored" itself. It only changes what Linkhale lists. Nothing on your site changes.

1.0.2

• New: when WordPress has found a newer version of Linkhale, the top of the Overview screen says so, with an "Update now" button (WordPress's own updater), a "What's new" link and "Not now". Only people who may update plugins see it, and it is never a notice anywhere else. The plugin still makes no outbound request: it reads what WordPress already found.

1.0.1

• Fixed: an Amazon link whose address holds a space (an old link pasted as it was, "keywords=red canyon tent") is now found, counted and fixable like any other.
• New: a "Get early access" link at the foot of the Overview screen, for a possible paid service. It is a plain link — the plugin still makes no outbound request.

1.0.0

• First release: every Amazon link on the site found wherever WordPress keeps it, each with findings in plain words (no tracking ID, someone else's ID, an ID for another store, more than one ID, a closed Amazon service, a short link that hides its ID, a price written beside a link, a copied product image, a page without an Associates statement, no rel="sponsored"); your tracking IDs per store; fixes in bulk with a preview, a change log and undo; the Associates statement and click counts, both off until you switch them on; a first run of about a minute; privacy tools; screens that work on phones and tablets.