Expansel crawls every page of your site to find broken links, checks that your backlinks are still live and monitors uptime, SSL certificate included. You get an email as soon as a problem appears.
Free for one site, fifty backlinks and fifty crawled pages. No card, nothing to install.
A link that leads nowhere, a backlink quietly removed, an outage on a Sunday night: three different problems, and almost always found out weeks too late.
Two years of small edits, and a fifty-page site holds thirty links that lead nowhere.
A link won after three months of emails disappears in a redesign. Nobody warns you: the traffic simply drops.
The site goes down on a Sunday night, or its HTTPS certificate expires. On Monday morning, a customer is the one who tells you.
Technical health
A crawl starts at your home page and follows every link to the last reachable page. 404 errors and broken links to sites that no longer exist come back with the exact page where to fix them.
From 50 to 50,000 pages per crawl, and up to 150,000 outbound links tested.
Broken link checker, in detail →Pages in error (4xx / 5xx)
Dead outbound links
SEO
You add the links you earned, and every page meant to link to you is checked again. The backlink is still there, it was removed, or it switched to nofollow: in the last two cases, an email lets you know.
From 50 to 50,000 links followed, read again weekly, daily or twice a day.
Backlink monitoring, in detail →Anchor text : guide des outils de jardin rel attribute : dofollow
Anchor text : boutique-exemple.fr rel attribute : nofollow
The link is still there, but it turned nofollow: it no longer passes anything.
The link is gone from the source page.
Availability
Your URLs are checked at regular intervals: HTTP status code, response time, and the SSL certificate with its expiry date. An outage, or an expiry date getting close, triggers an email.
One check every 24 hours, every hour, or every quarter hour depending on the plan.
Website monitoring, in detail →Day by day
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Response time
A monitoring tool you have to open to know things are fine is no tool at all. Expansel stays quiet while nothing changes, and writes to you the moment something breaks. Here is exactly what lands in your inbox.
Alert: boutique-exemple.fr is not responding
The latest check on boutique-exemple.fr did not pass.
You will get a second email as soon as it is back to normal: nothing to do on your side for that.
Recovered: boutique-exemple.fr is responding again
boutique-exemple.fr is responding normally again. The incident is closed.
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Pricing
No add-on to buy: broken links, backlinks and uptime are included in every plan, the free one too. Only the number of sites and how often they are checked change.
Free
Free
1 monitored site
Pro
19 € /mo
10 monitored sites
Business
59 € /mo
50 monitored sites
The addresses to watch. Uptime and the HTTPS certificate are included.
The pages meant to link to you, and the site they should mention.
The rest runs on its own: automatic checks, and an email only when something changes.
Three things: that every link on your site leads somewhere, including the ones pointing out to other sites; that the pages meant to link to you still do; and that your pages answer, HTTPS certificate included.
No. Your pages are read from the outside, the way a visitor or a search engine would. Nothing to deploy, no access to hand over.
That is the idea. Uptime monitoring, backlink tracking and broken link auditing are usually paid for in three different places. Here they sit in one account and one invoice.
Yes, and it does not expire: one site, fifty backlinks, fifty pages crawled, one check a day. No card is asked for.
They are read, the result is kept, the page content is not. We store the HTTP code, the anchor text and the rel attribute, never a copy of the page.
You can monitor any publicly reachable page, exactly as a search engine would. Nothing is installed anywhere, and no access is needed.
One address to enter, and the first check runs straight away.