So, separate question, since apparently I have a bunch of people here who understand this: I need to track link clicks made on advertisements in our iPad app.

So, separate question, since apparently I have a bunch of people here who understand this: I need to track link clicks made on advertisements in our iPad app. I can't do it from the app because 1) our backend is open source, and they're not implementing that and 2) I don't know how anyways. So I thought of using redirects. The link in the app goes to our site and gets redirected to the advertiser's site. That way I can track it with Google analytics and since i understand that, everything is peachy. Therefore, the questions are: 1) is this an acceptable practice? and 2) is there a better, easier way that I'm unaware of?