The original title is "Using Claude for Ethical Broken-Link Building: A Worklog"

Short summary

A worklog describing how a content audit revealed a specialist blog had been acquired and redirected, breaking thousands of inbound links across the web. The author used Claude and a tool called Fable to find broken links in open-source repos and propose ethical replacements — archiving originals by default, disclosing authorship, and fixing all dead links not just self-serving ones. The piece distinguishes clean broken-link building from expired-domain abuse.

• •Acquired specialist blog redirected all articles to a press release, breaking thousands of inbound links
• •Author opened 10 PRs across open-source repos to fix dead links with ethical replacements
• •Clean broken-link building: archive first, disclose authorship, fix all dead links not just beneficial ones
• •AI used for deterministic counting tasks, not subjective guessing — principles transfer even if scripts don't

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