If you use affiliate links, you eventually hit the same three problems. The links are long and ugly. When a program changes its URL, you have to hunt through dozens of posts to update it.
And you have no idea which links people actually click.
A link management plugin fixes all three. ClickWhale is one of the newer options, and it has become my default on smaller sites because the free version does more than most.
This ClickWhale review looks at it from a practical angle: setup, redirects, tracking, and whether it slows your site down.
