I'm an affiliate with a company and the code they use includes a long string of numbers that I think would make users on IE (which shows the link you're about to go to) possibly suspicious of where they're going.

So my attempted solution is to create a page such as http://livereaders.com/psychic-source.php

which has no code on the page except the following:

<?php
header( 'Location: http://m.psychicsource.com/imc22260?customphone=8663269853' ) ;
?>

then, instead of linking to the affiliate code, I link to http://livereaders.com/psychic-source.php which immediately redirects to the correct site.

However, I just want to check in and make sure that the identifying affiliate id info in the code (imc22260?customphone=8663269853) is being transferred.

I could wait and see if this change results in sales, but I'd rather catch any problems right away if possible. Thanks in advance.

Yep that should work

You can also use htaccess to make the redirect.

It will definitely work, there is no difference in leading user through a click or redirecting like this.

Hey friend just use the service "bit.ly' to shorten your url and use this url on your website. This really works. Try it now and tell me if it works.

Instead of having the user follow a redirect, you could lead them to a static page with a nice URL, merely containing an iframe with the correct page. Visitors won't be skeptical, because unless they check the source, they won't know what they're looking at.