Social Media Examiner | How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? | Topic Replies http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/feed/ How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? - Forum Topic in the Group Small Business Thu, 23 May 2013 06:16:49 +0000 http://buddypress.org/?v=1.5.5 en http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-34049<![CDATA[donald Ukponu replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-34049 Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:05:16 +0000 donald Ukponu replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business Bitly.com is popular in the social sites.Everyone has something to say about it.It's nice shortening service.I have not tried the customise feature.I  will check it and try them again.I would like to ask is it […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-33437<![CDATA[Preston Odenbrett replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-33437 Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:55:17 +0000 Preston Odenbrett replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business 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 […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-33428<![CDATA[Reg replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-33428 Sun, 10 Jun 2012 07:00:42 +0000 Reg replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business I started out with bit.ly, but now I set up my own with ShortSwitch (http://shortswitch.com).

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-33237<![CDATA[Karlene Cameron—Wordpress web designer for solo biz owners replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-33237 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:52:33 +0000 Karlene Cameron—Wordpress web designer for solo biz owners replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business @deairby , I use Pretty Links, a Wordpress plugin that lets you shorten URLs and keep the name of the site in it.

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-33223<![CDATA[donald Ukponu replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-33223 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:26:10 +0000 donald Ukponu replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business I  use bitly.com for sharing on social network and view clicks.It' s very nice using it.With recent developments other site hootsuite .com and  seesmic.com play an importance role on my personal social efforts.I […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-31187<![CDATA[David Blide replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-31187 Tue, 15 May 2012 04:14:01 +0000 David Blide replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business @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.

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-31153<![CDATA[Michael Goes replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-31153 Mon, 14 May 2012 21:48:16 +0000 Michael Goes replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business I use bit.ly mainly for link shortening and tracking clicks.  I was unaware of the custom link naming feature, so thanks for that @jasonwiser.

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-31110<![CDATA[Dea Irby replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-31110 Mon, 14 May 2012 15:22:13 +0000 Dea Irby replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business 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 […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-31098<![CDATA[Deborah Latham-White replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-31098 Mon, 14 May 2012 14:22:07 +0000 Deborah Latham-White replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business I have learned more about Bit.ly by reading the comments on how other people are using the service.  I definitely will have to dig in deeper this week and learn more about the full extent of this application.
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]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-31073<![CDATA[Jason Wiser replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-31073 Mon, 14 May 2012 11:40:49 +0000 Jason Wiser replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business @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? 

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-31047<![CDATA[David Blide replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-31047 Mon, 14 May 2012 04:24:34 +0000 David Blide replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business I've seen some url shortening services that are being banned or blacklisted by some networks. Is this something that bit.ly may face in the future?

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic//#post-<![CDATA[Jason Wiser replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic//#post- Sun, 13 May 2012 21:23:33 +0000 Jason Wiser replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business 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 […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-31034<![CDATA[Kristy C. Cartier replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-31034 Sun, 13 May 2012 21:00:26 +0000 Kristy C. Cartier replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business @jasonwiser Like  @joanmuschampfagnani and  @rich-brooks I have yet to really look at the click through metics (or the Ow.li links). Right now I track my tweets via basic metrics from Buffer (clicks, retweets) […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-31032<![CDATA[Holly Elliott replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-31032 Sun, 13 May 2012 20:35:56 +0000 Holly Elliott replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business 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 […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-31028<![CDATA[Rich Brooks replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-31028 Sun, 13 May 2012 20:21:51 +0000 Rich Brooks replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business @jasonwiser
LIke @joanmuschampfagnani I only scrape the surface of bit.ly. However, it's my go to tool, because I can always log back in and see the click throughs of previous bit.ly's, even if I didn't pay […]
]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-31027<![CDATA[Joan Muschamp (Fagnani) replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/how-do-you-use-bit-ly-or-do-you/#post-31027 Sun, 13 May 2012 20:20:30 +0000 Joan Muschamp (Fagnani) replied to the forum topic How do you use Bit.ly? Or do you? in the club Small Business @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 […]

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