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Originally Posted by BestXXXPorn
Yes it is possible... I wrote a post about this a year back... that some affiliates are not tracking leads sent as a header redirect like that... I forget who it was now but there are definitely some that, for some reason, don't pick it up...
What I ended up doing was using google analytics to track my links out... everything that links out gets a
onclick="_tracker.trackEvent('linkName',$site_id,$ location_id);"
And I just link them off... that way I get the stats but I don't have to send the user to a redirect page and worry about any programs which may not be (for some unknown reason) tracking the affiliate code correctly...
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There is no way a landing page can know if a visitor was sent via a redirect or by any other means. What is more likely is that the client reads the header but does not obey the redirect, i.e. the visitor is not a normal browser client but a bot of some kind that is appearing to follow the links on your page but actually going no further than just retrieving the headers.