Broken links
Outbound and internal links on your pages that no longer resolve, listed against the source page they sit on.
Broken link monitoring
Find Every Broken Link, And Fix It Where It Broke
xCloud scans your WordPress site on a schedule you set, then lists the broken pages, links, images and redirects it found. When a finding can be redirected, the redirect form opens with the broken URL already filled in.
- Managed scans, nothing installed on your site
- Broken links, images, soft 404s and unverifiable pages
- One click from a finding to a live 301
No Plugin To Install
The crawl runs as a managed scan from your hosting panel, not as PHP inside your site.
Scans On A Schedule
Turn it on, pick a frequency, and let each scan run in the background without you.
Fix From The Finding
Eligible findings open a redirect form with the broken URL pattern already filled in.
Export When You Need
Send the current findings out as CSV for a client, a dev, or your own tracking sheet.
How it works
From Switched Off To First Fix In Four Steps
Everything below happens inside the site you already have in xCloud. There is nothing to install, and nothing to configure on the server.
Open Broken Links
From your dashboard, open the WordPress site you want to check, go to Site Monitoring and select Broken Links.
Turn on scanning
Flip the Enabled toggle and choose how often the managed scan should run. Use Scan now when you do not want to wait for the next one.
Watch it work
The Coverage card counts pages scanned and links checked as the scan runs. Close the tab if you like; it keeps going without you.
Review and redirect
Read the findings table, then click Create redirect on an eligible finding. The broken URL pattern is already in the form, so you only supply the destination.
Inside the panel
What The Scan Finds, And What You Do About It
Three screens, in the order you actually meet them: the sweep, the fix, and the housekeeping that keeps the list honest on the second run.
Find
Broken images
Images that fail to load are counted separately, because a missing asset and a dead link are different jobs.
Soft 404s
Pages that answer with a success code while showing a not-found page. These are the ones a browser will never flag for you.
Couldn't verify
Anything the scan could not confirm either way is surfaced rather than silently dropped, so you can judge it yourself.
Source page
Every finding names the page it was found on, so the fix starts from a URL you can open rather than a bare error.
Live counters
Need attention, Link health and Coverage update while the scan runs, so you can see progress without refreshing.
Fix
Pattern pre-filled
Create redirect opens with the From field already carrying a pattern generated from the broken URL. You supply the destination.
You pick the type
Choose the redirect type before you confirm, so a page that moved for good and one that moved for now are not treated the same.
A real redirect
The rule lands in your site's existing redirects, the same place Site Rules manages them, not in a plugin's own table.
Only where it is safe
The action appears only on findings xCloud can convert into a redirect pattern with confidence. The rest stay yours to judge.
Manage
Search the results
Narrow a long list to one URL or one source page instead of reading every row after every scan.
Filter by what it is
All issues narrows to a single issue category. All resources narrows to a single resource type.
Ignore what is fine
Some findings are working as intended. Ignore takes them off the active list without deleting them.
Show ignored
Bring the ignored findings back into the table whenever you want to re-check a call you made earlier.
Export CSV
Download the current results to share the scan outside xCloud, or to keep a record of what a month of fixes changed.
Cancel a scan
Started one at a bad moment? Cancel Scan stops it while it is still running, with no cleanup afterwards.
Link Rot Is A Maintenance Job, Not A One-Off Audit
A site that was clean in January is not clean in June. Pages get renamed, products retire, and the sites you linked out to reorganise without telling you.
Scheduled, Not Remembered
Set the frequency once and the scan keeps running. Nothing depends on somebody putting an audit in the calendar.
Runs Off Your Site
The scan is managed by xCloud rather than executed by a plugin, so the crawl is not competing with your visitors for PHP workers.
Crawlability Preserved
Dead internal links waste the crawl budget search engines spend on you. Redirecting them points that budget back at live pages.
Visitors Keep Their Path
A 301 from an old URL sends a visitor to the page they wanted instead of a not-found screen and a back button.
Redirects In One Place
Fixes land in the site's own redirects, so what the scanner created and what you wrote by hand are managed together.
Evidence You Can Send
Export CSV turns a scan into something you can hand to a client or a developer without giving them dashboard access.
The alternative
A Link Checker Plugin vs Broken Link Monitoring
The usual fix for link rot is a plugin that crawls your site from inside your site. That is the comparison worth making, and it is mostly a comparison about where the work runs.
Scroll the table sideways to compare.
| A crawler plugin inside WordPress | Broken Link Monitoring |
|---|---|
| The crawl runs as PHP on your own server, competing with real traffic for workers. | The scan is managed by xCloud and does not run inside your site. |
| One more plugin to keep updated, and one more thing to suspect when something breaks. | Nothing installed. It is a panel on a site you already have in xCloud. |
| Findings arrive as a list. The redirect gets created somewhere else, by hand. | Eligible findings open a redirect form with the broken URL pattern already in it. |
| Redirects live in the plugin, so they leave with it if you ever deactivate it. | Redirects land in the site's own redirect rules, managed alongside the ones you wrote. |
| Remembering to run it is part of the job, and it is the part that slips. | Turn on the Enabled toggle, choose a frequency, and scans keep happening. |
| Broken images and soft 404s are often out of scope or a paid add-on. | Broken images, soft 404s and pages that could not be verified are in the same table. |
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Blaine MooreFrequently Asked Questions
Scan scheduling, what counts as a finding, which ones can be redirected, and how to get the results out.
Do I need to keep the page open while the scan runs?
No. The scan runs in the background and finishes whether or not you are watching. If you do stay on the page, the counters update live so you can see pages scanned and links checked as they go.
Can I run a scan manually if scheduled scans are already on?
Yes. Scan now starts one immediately without waiting for the next scheduled run, which is what you want right after a big content change or a migration.
What counts as a finding?
Broken links, broken images, pages that could not be verified, and page-level issues such as soft 404s. Each row names the source page it was found on so you know where to start.
Can every finding be fixed with a redirect?
No, and the panel does not pretend otherwise. Create redirect appears only on findings that xCloud can safely convert into a redirect pattern. A broken image or a dead outbound link is a content fix, not a redirect.
What happens to findings I do not want to act on?
Use Ignore and they come off the active list without being deleted. Turn on Show ignored whenever you want to look at them again or change your mind.
Can I get the results out of xCloud?
Yes. Export CSV downloads the current scan results, which is the simplest way to hand a list to a client or a developer who does not need panel access.
Does this slow my site down?
The scan is managed by xCloud rather than executed as PHP inside WordPress, which is the usual reason a link-checking plugin becomes a performance complaint.
Which sites can use it?
Broken Link Monitoring is available for a WordPress site connected to xCloud, from that site's Site Monitoring section.
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