Media buyer tool 7 · Redirect Chain Checker

Is your tracking link the reason Google keeps disapproving your ads? Paste the redirect chain and see every hop the reviewer sees.

Run one curl line on your ad URL and paste what it prints, or type the hops by hand. The checker lists every hop with its status and domain, compares them with your Final URL and display domain, flags dropped click IDs, and rates the destination-mismatch risk with the rule that set it. Then it shows how to make the path transparent: a direct-tracking script on the lander, or parallel tracking.

Nothing you enter leaves your browser.

Sending events to another platform? Platform-by-platform rules for server-side events

How do you want to give the chain?

Paste curl outputType the hops

Your browser can't follow another site's redirects for you, so run one line in a terminal and paste what it prints. It sends one request, the same as a click, and shows every status line and Location header.

Your ad URL (the one you'll run curl on)Optional if you paste the curl line itself too. Fills in the commands below.

macOS / Linux

curl -sIL 'https://your-ad-url'

Windows (PowerShell or cmd)

curl.exe -sIL "https://your-ad-url"

If the last line is 405 or 403, the server may refuse curl's HEAD request. Use the GET version instead: curl -sL -o /dev/null -D - 'https://your-ad-url' or curl.exe -sL -o NUL -D - "https://your-ad-url".

The curl outputPaste everything it printed. Only status lines and Location headers are read; cookies and other headers are ignored.

Final URL in the ad (optional)Tracking template (optional)Display domain (optional)

Want me to trace one real campaign?

This tool checks the redirect chain you pasted from what you typed. It can't see your ad accounts, tracker, network or live traffic. If the result shows gaps, I'll look at one real campaign for free: I trace it from ad click to payout and back, and within 48 hours I send you a written report on where money or data leaks silently, the fix for each, and the tests that prove it's fixed.

In the review I check one campaign's full tracking setup (Final URL, tracking template, tracker settings and landing page) against each platform's destination rules, and write the change list that makes the path the same for reviewer and visitor.

Request the free spend-path review

Shilpa Goel, [email protected]

This is an engineering checklist, not a security audit, legal, compliance or investment advice.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by Meta, Google, TikTok or any network or tracker named here.

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