Track Number of Clicks on Your Bitly Links in Your Tweeter

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Posted in » Firefox, Google - by Ades on December 23rd, 2009

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.

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28 Responses to “Track Number of Clicks on Your Bitly Links in Your Tweeter”

  1. By Tampa Real Estate on Dec 23, 2009

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

  2. By Marketing Man on Dec 23, 2009

    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. By PS3 on Dec 23, 2009

    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. By The Guru on Dec 24, 2009

    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. By The Net Fool on Dec 25, 2009

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

  6. By Faydaliweb on Dec 25, 2009

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

  7. By Latief@AnotherBlogger on Dec 25, 2009

    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. By ferforje on Dec 25, 2009

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

  9. By GDI Blog on Dec 26, 2009

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

  10. By clickonpost on Dec 26, 2009

    Thanks a lot Ades.. Nice article.

  11. By titan on Dec 28, 2009

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

  12. By Pinoy on Dec 28, 2009

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

  13. By Laptop Briefcases on Dec 30, 2009

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

  14. By GDI Blog on Dec 30, 2009

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

  15. By Marketing Man on Jan 1, 2010

    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. By used tires on Jan 2, 2010

    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. By Money Bins on Jan 2, 2010

    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. By Photos Comment on Jan 3, 2010

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

  19. By Laptop Briefcases on Jan 5, 2010

    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. By Essays on Jan 5, 2010

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

  21. By pen tablet on Jan 7, 2010

    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. By Link Wheels on Jan 8, 2010

    Just added the plugin to firefox, works a treat!

  23. By living room furniture on Jan 8, 2010

    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. By vitamins on Jan 11, 2010

    Just signed up for it. Handy!

  25. By Tony on Jan 12, 2010

    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. By Website Marketplace on Jan 15, 2010

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

  27. By Bidet on Jan 16, 2010

    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. By greenvtseries on Jan 16, 2010

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


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