Avoiding referral redirect

[achronister]

Hi all:

My question is regards to link building.

Brief summary on our site: We average around 50,000 hits per day, and an impressive amount of sales.

On our link building, we are trying to target very large corporate sites that we usually have to pay PPC charges on our advertisements. This is fine, but the URL's they use normally redirect to another one of their servers for tracking purposes and then on to us, giving us no value on link pop.

This question pays no mind to the traffic generated or any other factors other than the link pop we generate from this.

Is there any way we can work around the redirect tracking and have a hard link to our site and track it some other way?

Any comments/questions would be very helpful.

Thank you,

Aaron Chronister

[Whit]

As I understand the question, you are paying for advertisement on large corporate sites on a pay per click basis and want a way for these links to count towards your link popularity.
Unfortunately, I don't see how that objective can be achieved on a pay per click basis. The companies showing your links/ads will need a way to verify when the visitor clicks a link so they can bill you for it. As far as I know, the only way they can 100% accomplish the verification is to route the outbound link through some hit counting script.
You might consider offering your current publishers a flat monthly display rate based on their past performance. This would eliminate the need on their part to track the outbound links.