Affiliate link monitoring, per country and per hop

Every hop: URL, status code, Location

The chain itself. Lets you see where a parameter was dropped, where a geo-fallback kicked in and how many hops a visitor goes through.

Final URL and status

Whether the visitor reached a live offer, a 404, an expired-offer page or a generic fallback.

Tracking parameters at each hop

Sub-ID, click ID and UTM values in and out of each hop. A value present at hop 1 and gone at hop 3 is a lost commission.

Exit country

Which market the chain was resolved for. The same link can be correct in one country and a fallback in the next.

Landing page snapshot

Rendered HTML or a screenshot of the final page, for claims, prices and disclosures. Keep it as evidence when you raise a dispute.

Hop count and total time

Long chains are slow, and every extra hop is another place to fail. Track it per network and per advertiser.

Paid search observations for brand terms

Advertiser display URL and ad text seen for brand queries per country, for programmes whose terms restrict brand bidding.

1. 01

   Build the link inventory per market

   List every active tracking link with the countries it is meant to serve, the expected final domain and the parameters that must survive. That expectation is what each check is compared against.

2. 02

   Resolve each chain hop by hop on one sticky exit

   Disable automatic redirects, request each hop yourself, and record status and Location. Hold one exit for the whole chain with a session handle, and stop at a hop limit to catch loops.

   Hop-by-hop resolution on one exit20 linescopy

   from urllib.parse import urljoin, urlsplit, parse_qsimport httpxproxy = "http://USERNAME_pool-arcfast_country-de_session-k3f9a1x2_sesstime-10:PASSWORD@proxy.arcproxies.io:8000"  # one session handle per chainMAX_HOPS = 10def resolve(url: str, must_keep: str = "subid"):    hops, seen = [], set()    with httpx.Client(proxy=proxy, follow_redirects=False, timeout=20) as client:        for _ in range(MAX_HOPS):            if url in seen:                hops.append(("LOOP", url)); break            seen.add(url)            r = client.get(url)            kept = must_keep in parse_qs(urlsplit(url).query)            hops.append((r.status_code, url, kept))            if r.status_code not in (301, 302, 303, 307, 308):                break            url = urljoin(url, r.headers["location"])    return hops

3. 03

   Render the final page in a browser

   Open the final URL in a headless browser on the same session to catch script and meta-refresh redirects, then store a screenshot and the rendered HTML. Block heavy media unless the creative is what you are checking.

4. 04

   Compare against expectations and alert

   Flag chains that end on the wrong domain, lose a required parameter, exceed the hop limit, loop or end in an error. Group alerts by advertiser and network so the right person gets them.

5. 05

   Observe brand-term search results, without clicking

   For programmes that restrict brand bidding, record the paid results shown for brand queries per country: display URL and ad text. Never click an ad to identify the advertiser; a click costs the advertiser money and is invalid traffic.

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