@jasonwiser I use bitly but haven’t really been leveraging the metrics enought yet. I am in the process of working on including that with my analytics reporting.  I also use the Owly from HootSuite, and again the same applies to leveraging metrics.

Well, now see….  I just learned yet another thing thanks to SME.   I didn’t even realize bit.ly kept track of the click throughs; I only occasionally use it for links that are way too long or when I don’t want to tip people off on the “punch line” via the SEO URL. 

Or what about using the custom URL button to change the bitly from just random letters to something recognizable. 

I just put up a quick tip vid that might interest bitly people. Some creative and interesting uses. http://youtu.be/4r70MOVuMO0


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@davidblide I think Bit.ly is a respected service and one of the most reliable. I am curious which sites do you see that are banning URl shortners? 

I have a sidebar for bit.ly that allows me to shorten the address of whatever site I am on. Then click the copy button which allows me to paste a shortened address in twitter or anywhere I need to. Helpful when needed but a disadvantage is the name of the site is not in the address anymore. For example, my site name will not show up so people won’t know where it is taking them unless you state somewhere else that fact. @jasonwiser

@jasonwiser First thing that comes to mind is email. There are several url shortners that Gmail bans. I’ve also seen some Ning social sites that do not allow them.

@deairby , I use Pretty Links, a Wordpress plugin that lets you shorten URLs and keep the name of the site in it.

I do like Bitly but now everything changed.. They created a new look to the site and now I have to get used to finding information that I need. I do like the customization feature.. I use this a lot.. have a lot of people clicking on the link, which is good… but conversions are slow… I do think FB and others are blocking this.