Does a redirect count as a click with Affiliates?

If I send somebody to mysite.com/redirect and it redirects them to "affiliatelink.com/myid", does that get stored as a click? It would make sense if it did, but I remember years ago seeing people in hot water for not actually having the user "click through" and basically forcing it on them.

i find it to be hit and miss with one program I'm signed up with. I have about 200 campaigns running at the moment with them, and about 10% of them never register clicks at all, only leads. I suspect i'm missing a tracking pixel or something, or that the advertiser isn't registering them correctly. I've never had any heat come back from it to this day *knocks on wood*, but I do agree, it looks suspect, but I guess the ten or twenty casino affils which this is happening on dont seem to care

most places WILL register that as a click

michro01 said:

If I send somebody to mysite.com/redirect and it redirects them to "affiliatelink.com/myid", does that get stored as a click? It would make sense if it did, but I remember years ago seeing people in hot water for not actually having the user "click through" and basically forcing it on them.

Click to expand...

yes by all accounts it should count

Yes it seems to depend on the program. I run all aff links through my own tracker to see this and also quickly establish any rip off merchants.