Safe way to do Redirects with Adwords

I was using KeywordRadar for a while to do my keyword tracking. The software also has a feature that will create a redirect from your page to the affiliate sales page.

Now, I NEVER use redirects directly from my landing page.

However, I usually have links to a redirect page on my landing page. When I was using KeywordRadar, they had custom java code that talked to their servers and did kind of a backend redirect for you instead of the html redirect code that Google seems to hate.

I think this may have protected my quality score a bit but I may be mistaken.

Anyway. Today I saw that Keyword Radar has a parked domain all of a sudden. It may only be temporary, but it stopped my redirects from working and as a result I made no sales today. I want to get away from depending on a third party to do redirections.

Is it safe to use the HTML redirection code on a web page that my landing page links to? Will my quality score take a big hit?

How do you guys do redirections to your sales pages?

Keep in mind, I do have content filled Landing pages. I basically have a link at the bottom of my landing page that goes to the "redirected page". I'm choosing to use redirection because I want the domain name to appear the same to the customer.

Thanks,
Jay

 

It should be safe, just as long as your final URL is the same as your display URL

 

Never never never run your keywords through a third party tracking script that is not on your own server. That's like giving away your keywords and profitable campaigns to a stranger. VERY risky move, I'd never do it. They probably collected enough data and keywords for great campaigns that they shut down and are just running them on their own now...