Free Tool To Check Your Affiliate Links

Discussion in 'Products & Tools' started by ultimate marketing, Oct 4, 2012.

  1. #1
    If you've ever had issues in the past with getting your affiliate links wrong, you'll know how important it is to test that they go to the right destination.

    Redirect Detective is a free tool that allows you to do to a full visual trace on any URL redirect.

    This is really useful for checking things like:

    • Find out what affiliate networks people are using
    • Check that your old domain correctly redirects to the new domain
    • See if those bit.ly (or similar URL shorteners) links go to a legitimate place.
    • See where and how many cookies are being set.


    The screenshot below shows an example of just how many hops a single affiliate link can go through.

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    Click here to try out Redirect Detective
     
    ultimate marketing, Oct 4, 2012 IP
  2. Wulkanen

    Wulkanen Well-Known Member

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    Pretty neat website.
    Though, I don't think many people would actually go you your website just to paste in a link (peaople are lazy).
    A solution to this might be to create chrome/firefox addons for your website to make the process easier?

    Anyways good luck. =)
     
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  3. ultimate marketing

    ultimate marketing Greenhorn

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    I my experience, a lot of people don't like installing browser plugins/extensions.

    Web based lookup tools are as popular as ever. :)
     
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  4. Wulkanen

    Wulkanen Well-Known Member

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    Well the Google Chrome web store is pretty active with millions of users.
    What I meant was to make a plugin that enables users to check any link directly in their browser.
     
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    Thanks for sharing.
     
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  6. bearthis

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    Hi,
    I know it's an old post but I run into it while searching a tool just like this that will constantly check my affiliate links.
    I ended up creating it for myself and decided to make it an online service.

    I don't like to make it a promotional post, but it's free for 3 affiliate link so if anyone like to check it I'd be happy to share it.
     
    bearthis, May 20, 2014 IP
  7. ultimate marketing

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    Can't see anything on your site that checks affiliate links.
     
    ultimate marketing, May 20, 2014 IP
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    bearthis Greenhorn

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    this is the site: lnksitter.com
    I wasn't sure if it's ok to post it...
     
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