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. Click here to try out Redirect Detective
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. =)
I my experience, a lot of people don't like installing browser plugins/extensions. Web based lookup tools are as popular as ever.
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.
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.