Track Number of Clicks on Your Bitly Links in Your Tweeter

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).

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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.



30 Comments on "Track Number of Clicks on Your Bitly Links in Your Tweeter"

  1. I use tinyurl for URL shortening but now i’ll use bit.ly and track the number of clicks. Thanks.

  2. 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.

  3. PS3 says:

    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

  4. The Guru says:

    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

  5. The Net Fool says:

    I was wondering if there was anything that added that kind of functionality to Twitter… thanks so much!

  6. Faydaliweb says:

    I use firefox all times.It has great extensions.This is too.
    Thanks Ades

  7. 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.

  8. ferforje says:

    i love firefox extensions it gives you more than a browser.
    Great article Ades i love your blog too.

  9. GDI Blog says:

    normally i used to track bit.ly stats by puting a + in the end of bit.ly shorten link :)

  10. clickonpost says:

    Thanks a lot Ades.. Nice article.

  11. titan says:

    yap. i’m using bit.ly to check that click. It really useful.

  12. Pinoy says:

    I am loving more my firefox browser. Its like a one stop shop! Nice addon!

  13. That click tracking is very cool. It sure beats having to login to some system just to see those stats.

  14. GDI Blog says:

    by the way, is there any option ofr IE 7?

  15. 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.

  16. used tires says:

    Great idea for tracking the stats :D I know I am curious just how much click-threw a certain link gets.

    Till then,

    Jean

  17. Money Bins says:

    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.

  18. bit.ly is the bets shorten url. better than tiny url :)

  19. 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?

  20. Essays says:

    bit.ly generate more hits but it’s conversion rate is to low.

  21. pen tablet says:

    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.

  22. Link Wheels says:

    Just added the plugin to firefox, works a treat!

  23. 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.

  24. vitamins says:

    Just signed up for it. Handy!

  25. Tony says:

    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.

  26. Ahhh yes, I was trying to find something like this. What makes bit.ly better from tiny url anyways?

  27. Bidet says:

    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.

  28. agree. Bit.ly really useful. To me. :)

  29. 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.

  30. metformin says:

    Google is also providing same service as url shortner and you can also track the click on specified shortner .

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