Cloaked Links not working

[turtle]

So I just went on to cloak some affiliate links I had on my site. I ended up adding the usual "Redirect 301 /go/brand hxxp://mydomain.com/" term and putting the nofollow tag to the links. Also put a disallow in the robots.txt for the /go/ link. However when I checked the links they were all redirecting me to a different subpage of the domain. So instead of being redirected to brand.com/cool/ I got to brand.com/notcool/. The affiliate links obviously all have &site=1&title=2 tags so I guess that's whats causing the problem during the redirect process.

Also what's the best practice in terms of Redirection? Should I 301, 302 or 307?

 

[Ryuzaki]

I'm not sure about the specifics between 302 and 307 without looking it up, but I use 302's, mainly because I don't want to use 301. I don't want to imply any permanent association between my site and wherever the link leads.

I don't see why those tags would cause the issue. There might be something on the destination site that redirects based on the tags though.

 

[turtle]

The weird thing is that the aff links work totally fine and lead to the right page. But when being redirected it gets messed up

 

[CCarter]

Post the codes, otherwise it's just talking in the abstract.

 

[turtle]

Redirect 301 /go/brand/ hxxp://affnetwork.com/click.asp?ref=1&site=2&type=text&tnb=3
That's in my .htaccess.
I just used a redirect checker and found this:

hxxp://mydomain.com/go/brand/
301 Found
hxxp://affnetwork.com/click.asp?ref=1&site=2&type=text&tnb=3
200 OK
click4.aspx?nos=1&adtref=&csts=0&ref=1&site=2&type=text&tnb=3
Meta Refresh

 

[CCarter]

Are you certain that affnetwork.com isn't detecting cloacking and screwing up the URL link since it's going to click4.aspx, if I understand correctly.

 

[turtle]

Yeah, might be. Seems like the "problem" is on their side.