Quality Score - What does the spider see?

When using redirects, does the spider follow to the landing page?

[oneguy]

Is there a way to tell what the spider sees for quality score calculation?

Instead of going straight to the page, I'm currently redirecting through a php script.

I'm doing this because my own internal tracking system gives me better and more convenient data than Google does. However, I don't know if my quality score is suffering as a result.

Currently, google hits a page that returns a 200 code. That page has a meta refresh to a script with some variables. The script logs the information I need, and then meta refreshes to the actual page.

This might even be a dumb question, but is the bot getting to the actual landing page? Is it stopping at the first meta refresh? Is there a way to tell? I can't find any documentation.

[hercules]

I had more or less the meta refresh needed to be implemented. Did you also see th minimum cpc's go up instantly?

[oneguy]

No, I haven't seen that happen, but I'm just now looking.

I have switched back and forth... tracking system vs. straight to the url. It seemed to have no effect on active vs. inactive keywords. That isn't enough to remove my uncertainty, though.