I use Clicky for most of my day-to-day tracking and analysis, only using Google Analytics for the harder analyses. One of the things Clicky can do most wonderfully is track outbound clicks. There's an issue however when you start routing your affiliate links through a script or on-site redirect. I redirect mine through /out/ here on yoast.com, but not all of the /out/ links need to be tracked. Let me show you how I do track the ones I need to track.
Forcing Clicky to track a link as outbound
First of all, you need to know that when you add a class <code>clicky_log_outbound</code> to a link, Clicky will track each click on that link as an outbound link. Now I always add a class <code>track</code> or <code>aff</code> to my affiliate links that I want to have tracked, for instance:
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