Paste any affiliate link below to trace every redirect hop, see the final URL, and confirm your tracking tag made it all the way there.
A redirect chain is the sequence of stops a link takes between the URL a visitor clicks and the page they finally see. A shortened link points to a network's tracking domain, which points to the retailer's landing page, which may itself redirect once more before the product page loads. Every one of those steps is a hop, and the chain can be one hop long or several.
Each hop is a place where things can go wrong. A hop can time out, return an error, or forward the visitor without carrying your affiliate tag along. The visitor usually never notices, because the redirects happen instantly in the background. You only see the result: a sale that either gets credited to you or does not.
Your affiliate tag usually lives in a query parameter on the URL, something like tag= or affid=. A well-behaved redirect carries that parameter forward at every hop. A misconfigured one strips it, rewrites the query string, or drops it when it normalizes the URL, and the visitor lands on the retailer's page with no record of which affiliate sent them. The click still happened. The commission does not.
This checker follows the chain the same way a browser would, hop by hop, and compares the affiliate parameter on the first URL to the one on the last. If it went missing anywhere along the way, the tool flags the link as an attribution risk so you can fix or replace it before it costs you more sales.
Most affiliate links are shortened or wrapped by a network, a link shortener, or a landing page before they reach the retailer. Each of those stops is a hop: it reads the incoming link, applies its own logic, and sends the visitor on to the next URL. A link can pass through several hops before it lands on the page the buyer actually sees.
Enter your link above and check the final URL against your original one. If the affiliate parameter or tag you started with (a tag= on Amazon links, an affiliate ID on other networks) is missing from the final URL, one of the hops dropped it and the sale will not be credited to you. This tool flags that case as an attribution risk automatically.
Attribution loss happens when a visitor clicks your affiliate link, reaches the retailer, and even buys, but the sale is not credited to your account. A hop in the redirect chain stripped or overwrote your tracking parameter along the way, so the retailer has no record of which affiliate sent that visitor.
A broken verdict means the chain ended in an error status (400 and above) or never returned a response at all, so there is no final page for a visitor to land on. That link is losing every click that hits it, not just the tagged ones.
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