Tracking Links AND retaining PR?

[mneylon]

How can you track a link fully without adding a "ref" tag or similar to the URL and thus maintain any Google PR that you are getting from it?

 

[louie]

without using a landing page either?

 

[SlitheryImp]

You should be able to do it quite easily with a 301 redirect, ie. example.com/?ref=1234

when the request arrives at the server you can catch the ref number, and then 301 redirect the visitor to example.com/

 

[louie]

Ok, because you are not giving more details, I would recommend you to create a script that will record the referer and store the details somewhere as a text file or database.
This way the link wouldn't have any irrelevant details attached to it (as query strings) and you don't need a landing page or do a redirection for it either.