Hey WarBot,
Great looking sites!
I can't give you any advice on advertising since I'm trying to learn that myself... I just got my first free site out here. And although it's been listed at most of the places, and I have a LOAD of traffic to it, there ain't much activity on the sponsor stats page
I did set up my link codes with php redirects right away. The main reason for me to do this is so that I can count the clicks for individual ads. That way I might eventually be able to learn what makes people click on something... and the reasons you mentioned makes it an even better idea
