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Originally Posted by redwhiteandblue
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.
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This, or more commonly - some asshole affiliate decides to try to hotlink to a join page, and wonders why their ratios went sky high but their traffic numbers went to shit.
Don't try to subersively make it faster/easier for your surfers to check out. If you don't confirm that it will always work with your program, it may not. I've seen people try to hard code invalid option ids, try to do an external post to signup pages, it's all a mess. Use your goddamn linkcodes or ASK before you try something. Just because it works once, doesn't mean that it always will.
Also, that 301 redirect is fine, but not the best way of doing it for NATSv3/NATSv4. Your link code isn't valid, either.