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.xml
  • https://yourdomain.com/sitemap_index.xml
  • https://yourdomain.com/wp-sitemap.xml (WordPress)

You can also check your robots.txt file for a Sitemap: directive.

Adding the Site

  1. Go to your Dashboard and click Add Site
  2. Enter a Site Name to identify it in your dashboard
  3. Paste your Sitemap URL
  4. Click Save — Brokenly will immediately fetch your sitemap and begin scanning

What Happens Next

Once you add a site, Brokenly:

  1. Fetches your sitemap and parses all page URLs
  2. Crawls each page to find affiliate links
  3. Checks each link for a valid HTTP response
  4. Marks broken or redirected links for your review
  5. Sends you an email if any broken links are found

The initial scan can take a few minutes for larger sites.

Supported Sitemap Formats

  • Standard XML sitemaps
  • Sitemap index files (with multiple nested sitemaps)
  • News sitemaps
  • WordPress sitemaps

If your sitemap is behind authentication or uses a non-standard format, contact support and we'll help you get set up.