bit.ly url shortening

I never really saw the point in shortening URL’s before I got onto twitter.

I can see the appeal maybe for cloaking links, but I was never that type of guy. The only reason I started shortening my weblinks was out of necessity… twitter only gives us 140 character so typing a long ass domain name would have wasted most if not all of the space for a tweet.

So for months there I was just following the crowd by using tinyurl.com and that seemed to do the job well enough. Then recently I got onto this bit.ly thing and now I’m loving it because it tracks a bunch of stats on the clicks. As an Internet Marketer, you want to know the stats! As an obsessive, compulsive traffic hound… you want to know the stats!

If you’re not yet using bit.ly then I highly recommend you open a free account with them. Then you can track all your URL’s from the one interface, allowing you to take a visual glance at which are getting the most clicks and where you traffic is coming from.

Sorry I can’t tell you anymore, it’s really late and I should be in bed not blogging at 3am.
Night