Bit.ly, the popular URL shortening service has an extension for Chrome and Firefox browsers, which allows you to see number of clicks on your bit.ly links in a tooltip (see below screenshot from my twitter).
Clicking on “More information” link will take you to the details page for that particular link on bit.ly. I have been using it for a week now and find it very useful.
I use tinyurl for URL shortening but now i’ll use bit.ly and track the number of clicks. Thanks.
This definitely adds the type of value that will ensure people pick Bitly as their number one url shortening service. This is a very good illustration of the value add concept.
It’s rather useful for users. Everything is at hand and you don’t need to find the info about the clicks on your link anywhere
Ades, is there any software you use to track ads clicking on your blog? That piece of info vital to optimize the content monetization :D
I was wondering if there was anything that added that kind of functionality to Twitter… thanks so much!
I use firefox all times.It has great extensions.This is too.
Thanks Ades
I’m not a good twitter ;) but I think this is interesting knowing how many clicked we’ve got after a twit.
Thanks Ades for sharing this article.
i love firefox extensions it gives you more than a browser.
Great article Ades i love your blog too.
normally i used to track bit.ly stats by puting a + in the end of bit.ly shorten link :)
Thanks a lot Ades.. Nice article.
yap. i’m using bit.ly to check that click. It really useful.
I am loving more my firefox browser. Its like a one stop shop! Nice addon!
That click tracking is very cool. It sure beats having to login to some system just to see those stats.
by the way, is there any option ofr IE 7?
Expect to see much more from Bitly in 2010 good people. They pretty much got their niche well covered, and I am really interested to see what their growth is going to be like.
Great idea for tracking the stats :D I know I am curious just how much click-threw a certain link gets.
Till then,
Jean
Very useful for those who use bit.ly ( like me ). I love this new tracking system so I can see how many clicks my links get, bravo. Thanks for letting us know about it Ades.
bit.ly is the bets shorten url. better than tiny url :)
I’m surprised that more url shorteners don’t do something like this. It is easy enough to track stats. So why not share those stats with others?
bit.ly generate more hits but it’s conversion rate is to low.
bit.ly makes a lot of things easier. It is just another great plugin for firefox (and not only firefox like you just said). I wonder how it could be improved to make twitting even more easy.
Just added the plugin to firefox, works a treat!
I actually was looking for a plugin like this but on blogs. When you hover in a link, you can see how many clicks it has in a day.
Just signed up for it. Handy!
Thanks for the helpful tip! I remember reading somewhere that you can also check by adding a “+” at the end of the bit.ly url to check the # of clicks.
Ahhh yes, I was trying to find something like this. What makes bit.ly better from tiny url anyways?
bit.ly looks really useful for checking out the number of clicks. Its really convenient way to see which links are converting and which aren’t.
agree. Bit.ly really useful. To me. :)
selamun aleykum blogger,
I came to this blog from Turkey.are you muslim blogger like me?in the meantime bit.ly forever :).
Be entrusted to God.
Google is also providing same service as url shortner and you can also track the click on specified shortner .