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The answer
to these questions is simple: check your Web log files.
However, if your links go directly to the other site,
your Web log will never reflect this activity.
The Click-thru Tracker
solves this problem by allowing all of your links
to first go through your own site before the visitor
is redirected to the new site. Each link will appear
in your Web log and on your log reports along with
the new URL and a reason for the link.
For
example, all of the 
links in the CDS Library are coded in the following
way:
<a href="cgi-bin/cds_clickthru.pl?
reason=library&
redirect=http://www.othersite.com/somepage.htm">
<img src="images/client.gif"
width=184 height=15 border=0>
</a>
The
Click-thru Tracker also supports the reflect
parameter. This parameter allows you to specify
the name of a page that you've uniquely associated
with your link. When you view your Web log you will
see requests for this special page, made by the
Click-thru tracker, and know that someone clicked
on your link to the other site. Here's another example:
<a href="http://www.cdswebinc.com/cgi-bin/cds_clickthru.pl?
reason=library&
redirect=http://www.othersite.com/somepage.htm">
reflect=http://www.yoursite.com/othersite.htm&
<img src="images/client.gif"
width=184 height=15 border=0>
</a>
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