I'd like to set up some kind of tracking system to track how much traffic we're getting from various ad campaigns going to different pages on various sites. Google Analytics has a perfect system to do this for us, but it leaves its tracking parameters (?utm_campaign=34343&utm_medium=2523532&...) at the end of the URL after users are delivered to our site. I really don't want these parameters left visible since they may confuse users when they try to post links to our pages elsewhere.
I'd love a way to still use Analytics to track this without the user seeing the messy query parameters in their location bar, but after looking at it for a while I don't think that's possible.
What's the best way to set up my own tracking system to do this without upsetting the search engines with funky redirects? I'm thinking of linking all ads to mysite.com/in.php?campaignID=...., Then having in.php log the incoming visitor and redirect to the appropriate landing page. Could this cause any problems with the search engines? The actual landing pages are quality content pages with great SERP placement, so I don't want to do anything that might look shady and jeopardize their rankings.
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