Sometimes you find an interesting looking offer on a web site and want to find out which affiliate network servers that offer. But all the links on the landing page(s) just send you to some php file or some other kind of 301 redirect. After you click the link, you get redirected through a range of different pages to end up landing at the advertiser or product page and all of the urls displayed in your status bar fly by so fast you can’t remember or even see half of them. Even worse, the page you’ve arrived at mentions nothing about an affiliate program. So how are you going to find out where you can find this affiliate offer?

First thing you do is use Firefox and download this nifty add-on called Live Http Headers. Once installed you can turn it on or off. What it does is create a log of all that happens after you click on a (cloaked) link. Great! Now you can just open the log, click the link in the browser and check the Live HTTP Header popup and see all the pages you are being redirected through before ultimately landing on the vendor page.

But hold on: lots of links go through domain names like valtrk.com or kqzyfj.com … now it still often isn’t clear which network to go to. So here is a list of common redirect URLs used by affiliate networks:

NeverBlueAds – http://www.nbjmp.com, http://gnspf.com

Copeac – http://www.cpaclicks.com

Hydra – http://www.lynxtrack.com

Advaliant – http://www.valtrk.com

Millnic Media – http://affiliates.millnicmedia.com

Firelead – http://www.clickfln.com

Commission Junction – http://www.dpbolvw.net, http://www.jdoqocy.com, http://www.anrdoezrs.net, http://www.tkqlhce.com, http://www.kqzyfj.com

So if you see any links that redirect through these domains, you’ll know exactly where the offer is hosted.
If you’re aware of any others, just leave me a comment on this post and I’ll be glad to add them.