Do Click monitor utils affect SE spidering?

I'm looking into using a click monitor program to monitor how many
times certain links are clicked. Can Google (etc.) follow these links?
Are there good and bad ones in this regard?

I'm currently looking into Clicks counter Pro
http://www.mitridat.com/clicks-counter/index.html

but they haven't answered my e-mail query on this matter.
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› I'm looking into using a click monitor program to monitor how many
› times certain links are clicked. Can Google (etc.) follow these links?
› Are there good and bad ones in this regard?
›
› I'm currently looking into Clicks counter Pro
› http://www.mitridat.com/clicks-counter/index.html
›
› but they haven't answered my e-mail query on this matter.

Does anyone know the answer to this? I saw one such util confess that
spiders would have difficulty crawling the modified links which is why
I'm concerned.

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There is circumstantial evidence that on Thu, 02 Oct 2003 19:15:17
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› I'm looking into using a click monitor program to monitor how many
› times certain links are clicked. Can Google (etc.) follow these
links? › Are there good and bad ones in this regard?
›
› I'm currently looking into Clicks counter Pro
› http://www.mitridat.com/clicks-counter/index.html › › but they
haven't answered my e-mail query on this matter.

Does anyone know the answer to this? I saw one such util confess that
spiders would have difficulty crawling the modified links which is why
I'm concerned.

If you have access to server side script, you can roll your own. The
example shown below is ASP, but PHP or others are similar.

1. Create a database table, called maybe redirect, with at least three
fields: id, url, hits
2. Assign each link an id, then set the link up like <a href="rd.asp?
id=id">Name of Link</a>, where id is the id number that you assigned
3. On the rd.asp (or whatever server side language), have the script update
the increase the value of hits by one, then redirect to the url of that id

<%
dim id
dim update
dim sql
dim redirect

id = request.querystring("id")

update = "UPDATE redirect SET hits = hits + 1 WHERE id = " & id
Conn.Execute update

Set Rsrecordset = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
sql = "SELECT url from redirect WHERE id = " & id
rsrecordset.Open sql, Conn

redirect = trim(rsrecordset("url"))
rsrecordset.Close
set rsrecordset = nothing

response redirect redirect
response.end
%>
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› If you have access to server side script, you can roll your own...

Thanks for that. I was hoping to use something like click-through
though because of all the many stats it can produce and for the
relatively small price it would save me a lot of time.


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