

Scrapebox has an Addon which checks each harvested URL for broken links. This saves you hours of time manually searching Google for relevant results. Simply input your list of search operators and export the resulting URLs into a spreadsheet. The tool utilizes proxies allowing you scrape thousands of search results with the click of a button. You can use Scrapebox to automate the entire prospecting process.

So, I poured my energy into finding an automated solution – I found one. Thing is, broken link building could yield powerful results if the process were scalable. Prospecting for relevant sites takes hours and the few links you may land don’t justify the time spent. My quick summary didn’t do it justice – the process is tedious as hell. Contacting website owners to alert them of a broken link and offering a relevant link of yours to replace it. Checking relevant content for dead links using browser plugins ( Check My Links, Domain Hunter) OR creating a list of URLs and uploading them to Xenu or Screaming Frog. Repeating this process, over and over, to build a list of potential prospects. Then, clicking through to each result and checking if it’s relevant. Using search operators to find the right websites. Last month it was landing online press, this month it’s broken link building. I’m trying to master white hat link building – one tactic at a time.
