Why You Should Use Bit.ly's Free Features to Track Links, Clicks, Share Content and More
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Bit.ly is an awesome tool you can use for tracking the results advertising campaigns, domain tracking, content sharing and much more. And best of all, this great little tool is free. It allows you to shorten long URLs such as affiliate links so you can easily insert them into emails, tweets, newsletters, articles etc. Bit.ly Pro (also free) allows you to track your clicks as well.
Bit.ly Features:
1. Bit.ly's Chrome Extension and Bitmarklet make saving and sharing easy. Bitmarks are the interesting links you collect through the Internet. With a bitly account you can start using the Chrome extension or Bitmarklet. These two tools make it a breeze to save, bundle and share bitmarks on Facebook, Twitter, and email, directly from your browser.
2. You can access all of your bitmarks anywhere. When you save a link with a Bit.ly account you can find it in your bitmark list. And you can also view your bitmarks at any time when logged into your account on the Internet or with the iPhone app.
3. Also you can curate your links around a specific theme with Bit.ly bundles. Bit.ly bundles make it easy organize and curate your bitmarks around different themes or topics. Create a marketing bundle of all your favorite or most popular marketing tips.or use a bundle to brainstorm your next ad campaign - the possibilities are endless. You can also add numerous curators to a bundle so they can include their bitmarks also.
4. With Bit.ly you can explorer new things with your network view. Numerous Bit.ly users integrate their Facebook and Twitter accounts to Bit.ly to make it easier to share content. Integrating your Bit.ly account with Facebook and Twitter is an awesome benefit because you can review your shares on your network view. With your network view, you can see the public bitmarks saved by the people you know on Facebook and Twitter. Also, if you see a post that you like and want to share, you can save it to your own bitmark list.
5. You get your unique Bit.ly profile page. By registering with Bitly you'll get a public profile where all your public bitmarks & bundles are published.
6. You get your stats, all on one page. Your stats page provides click counts for all bitmarks saved in the past 30 days. You review the amount of clicks on your bitmark, as well as the total amount of saves on Bit.ly and total clicks generated by specific links.
Bit.ly Features:
- Shorten Links - When you log into your account, you'll see a box a where you enter the long URL that you'd like to shorten. Simply enter the long link and click the "Shorten" button.
- Short Domain & Tracking Domain (optional steps)- With the Pro version of Bit.ly, you can enter a short domain and a tracking domain.
- Tracking Domain - This lets you to get data on how your domain is being circulated around the Internet. For instance, if you own the domain getlove.com and set it as your dashboard tracking domain, all of the bit.ly redirected traffic to getlove.com would be displayed in your stats. You just need to enter your root domain and click the "Add Tracking Domain" button.
- Sidebar Bookmarklet - Bit.ly has a sidebar bookmarklet that lets you to tweet, review your stats and see who is talking about the linked page on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed and blog comments directly from your browser's sidebar.
- Reviewing Stats - After you've had your links published to the web for a while, you'll be able to view your stats. To do this, log into your account and click "Analyze". The Metrics Summary will give you a breakdown of your stats in graph form for the past 30 days. Also, the Dashboard Summary will give you a different view of your stats for the past 24 hours.
1. Bit.ly's Chrome Extension and Bitmarklet make saving and sharing easy. Bitmarks are the interesting links you collect through the Internet. With a bitly account you can start using the Chrome extension or Bitmarklet. These two tools make it a breeze to save, bundle and share bitmarks on Facebook, Twitter, and email, directly from your browser.
2. You can access all of your bitmarks anywhere. When you save a link with a Bit.ly account you can find it in your bitmark list. And you can also view your bitmarks at any time when logged into your account on the Internet or with the iPhone app.
3. Also you can curate your links around a specific theme with Bit.ly bundles. Bit.ly bundles make it easy organize and curate your bitmarks around different themes or topics. Create a marketing bundle of all your favorite or most popular marketing tips.or use a bundle to brainstorm your next ad campaign - the possibilities are endless. You can also add numerous curators to a bundle so they can include their bitmarks also.
4. With Bit.ly you can explorer new things with your network view. Numerous Bit.ly users integrate their Facebook and Twitter accounts to Bit.ly to make it easier to share content. Integrating your Bit.ly account with Facebook and Twitter is an awesome benefit because you can review your shares on your network view. With your network view, you can see the public bitmarks saved by the people you know on Facebook and Twitter. Also, if you see a post that you like and want to share, you can save it to your own bitmark list.
5. You get your unique Bit.ly profile page. By registering with Bitly you'll get a public profile where all your public bitmarks & bundles are published.
6. You get your stats, all on one page. Your stats page provides click counts for all bitmarks saved in the past 30 days. You review the amount of clicks on your bitmark, as well as the total amount of saves on Bit.ly and total clicks generated by specific links.