I think you are missing the point. It is not that a redirect is good/bad, that it is following or not following the Google policy…

You are missing the point. The point is that the advertising rates are a black box. The quality score is a black box.

Look at this another way… lets imagine the super bowl. Lets say for prime ad spots during half time that there are four ads times that are sold. Spot 1 goes for 1.5 million dollars, spot 2 goes for $1.2 million, spot 3 goes for $5,000, and spot 4 goes for 1.1 million. If the other advertisers got wind of this, they’d probably be pissed. What if they found out that advert 3 was a subsidiary of the company that runs the super bowl and thus paid only a token amount. Then, as an advertiser you find out that they’ve been paying only a token amount on all their adverts across the network. The network just kept telling you that you had to pay the going rate but with the advice that if your advertisements or company was of “more quality ” you might pay slightly less. In the end, it wasn’t really about quality. There is no way that Google is a better site for cleverclasp.com than the actual web site.

While it doesn’t affect every one, if Google is playing in your same ad space – why? They often have little content or text that describes the products that they are promoting. They are automatically assuming that they, themselves, are a quality site. It is not like they have to be “quality” and have scores that reflect well and thus outbid you for advertising. If some of your competitors use Google owned advertiser services (double click), since it is a black box anyway, who is to tell if there aren’t some sweet heart deals between Google and Doubleclick?

If you are an SEO do you think you are really going to be able to compete with Performix in the SEO space? Hrm, let me check to see why Google isn’t ranking you as high as it should… vs. let me Q/A your site, run some A/B tests, and see if we can hit or miss, gain you a top 10 ranking….