LinkRot Radar – Outbound link and citation monitoring

Automatically catch dead, redirected, or region-blocked citations on sites and knowledge bases

Problem

One user built a traffic-analysis tool with a backlink leaderboard, showing outbound links are a real asset for indie sites and content publishers; another shared a lightweight self-hosted analytics app, showing small-site owners care about cheap infrastructure metrics. Yet most have no tool to continuously check whether their own citations die, redirect, or get blocked, silently hurting SEO and credibility.

Solution

A lightweight SaaS: import outbound links from a site or knowledge base, periodically fetch to check status codes, final redirects, and content changes, aggregate reports by source page, and send email/webhook alerts. Optionally probe reachability from a couple of regions.

Users

Content site owners, indie developers, maintainers of docs and knowledge bases that rely on citations

MVP

Link import (sitemap or manual list); scheduled status and redirect checks; reports grouped by source page; email alerts for dead or changed links; free tier plus subscription

Revenue

Monthly subscription by number of monitored links; team tier adds multi-project and webhook alerts

Why now

As AI summaries dilute original traffic, verifiable citations matter more, yet existing link checkers are one-off batch tools with no continuous monitoring; a solo dev can ship this with cron jobs