Adding Your First Site
Connect your website to Brokenly by adding your sitemap URL.
Brokenly uses your sitemap to discover pages and find affiliate links. Here's how to add a site.
Finding Your Sitemap URL
Most sites have a sitemap at one of these URLs:
https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xmlhttps://yourdomain.com/sitemap_index.xmlhttps://yourdomain.com/wp-sitemap.xml(WordPress)
You can also check your robots.txt file for a Sitemap: directive.
Adding the Site
- Go to the Sites page and click Add Site
- Enter a Site Name to identify it in your dashboard
- Paste your Sitemap URL
- Save — Brokenly fetches your sitemap and queues the first crawl
What Happens Next
Once you add a site, Brokenly:
- Fetches your sitemap and parses every page URL
- Crawls each page to find affiliate links
- Verifies each link with an HTTP check, plus an extra availability check for Amazon products
- Assigns each link a status — Healthy, Broken, Blocked, Redirects to Homepage, Out of Stock, etc.
- If you have alerts enabled and the crawl turned up new problem links, sends one summary email
The first crawl typically takes a few minutes; larger sites can take longer.
Supported Sitemap Formats
- Standard XML sitemaps
- Sitemap index files (with multiple nested sitemaps)
- WordPress (
/wp-sitemap.xml) - Yoast SEO and RankMath sitemap indexes
If your sitemap is behind authentication or uses a non-standard format, contact us and we'll help you get set up.