Hi,

I can certainly see the value of this, and as I have a good many affiliate links on my site, certainly Amazon does not need the linky goodness that I am sending their way on so many pages.  So what I need to know is if this works on affiliate links, especially the ones from some of the major programs that have re-directs built into their links already. 

If this does work with affiliate links, then it is pretty useful as well for the click tracking feature, which would help me to see from my own site which of my affiliate items are attracting the most clicks.

Thanks.

Agree.  ANY link that cannot be counted by Google as an outbound link does in fact help.  Affiliate links can cause significant problems with PR, actually they are even worse than being just a bleed as they in fact accumulate negative points.  One thing that folks often don't realize is that you can have a PR = 0, and then even be "stuck" there.  A site which uses certain search optimization techniques can get that but your site can also get that if you have a significant number of outbound affiliate links (or even regular outbound links, but it's harder for that to happen) if along with that you have few or no inbound links, or if the inbound links to you have low PR themselves.  And if you have a lot of affiliate outbound links, and happen to be listed on the "parent" of the affiliate site or on sites who serve as link farms for the affiliates, you can still get the PR 0.