Field notes
Plain-spoken writing on affiliate links, link rot, and keeping the links on your site earning what they should.
Link rot
A quarter of all links from a decade ago are already dead. Here's what the research actually says about how quickly links break — and why affiliate links rot faster than the rest.
· 6 min read
Monitoring
Broken affiliate links don't throw errors. They keep loading, keep looking fine, and quietly stop paying. Here's why that failure mode is worth watching for, and what monitoring actually buys you.
· 7 min read