Our link robot

We promise that a link is dofollow and live. So we'd better check it — automatically, every night.

What it does

The robot visits the sponsor and partner pages in our catalog and reads two things: whether the link to our customer exists in the rendered page, and whether it carries rel="nofollow" or rel="sponsored". The result updates the product's status in the shop.

That's why we can write “dofollow verified” on some placements — and “nofollow, no link value” on others, even when they look good.

How it behaves

• It identifies itself as ChampaignRelBot/1.0 (+https://champaign.io/bot.html).
• It reads and respects robots.txt. If a page is blocked, we skip it.
• It fetches at most one page at a time, with a pause in between — it won't strain your server.
• It only reads publicly available pages. It doesn't log in, doesn't fill in forms and collects no personal data.
• It only stores: the URL, whether the link exists, and which rel attribute it has.

For clubs and associations

If you're in charge of sponsors and wondering about the visit: we resell sponsorships to companies that want to support you. The robot only checks that the sponsors we've placed actually appear correctly on your site — so you don't end up with an unhappy sponsor, and we don't sell something that doesn't work.

Last updated: 6 August 2026 · champaign is run by OLIP MARKETING - FZCO, license no. 92954, Dubai, UAE.