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Re: Bit.ly + Google Analytics Campaign Builder Tool

ukjobs — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:22:04 -0000

Wow. nice.

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Re: Bit.ly + Google Analytics Campaign Builder Tool

David Rinnan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:35:41 -0000

works like a charm

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joshuaguffey — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:56:45 -0000

Wow. Took me about five minutes of staring at the columns, fields, etc... to firgure out how to use it. Then I came back to write this comment and saw the instructions! LMAO. FYI your embedded images from flickr aren't present. ;)

Re: Bit.ly + Google Analytics Campaign Builder Tool

sideffects — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:29:31 -0000

I'm having a hard time understanding this tutorial without the pics. :(

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Re: Bit.ly + Google Analytics Campaign Builder Tool

AndyBeard — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:29:41 -0000

Do you have a list of which parameters can be added to the end of the URL, and for it still to be counted as the same canonical URL for the Info+ grouping?
Does 301 rewriting to a canonical URL affect how a link is treated?

Re: Bit.ly + Google Analytics Campaign Builder Tool

Edd — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:30:17 -0000

@TheRealTerry is this additional bit.ly feature mentioned on their user suggestions page? http://bitly.uservoice.com/... - which one to vote for? I'm guessing the Google Analytics one is the closest to what you're asking for

Re: Bit.ly + Google Analytics Campaign Builder Tool

kortina — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:11:26 -0000

Patch is forthcoming. It's on the staging server and will be live soon.
Please bear with us.

Re: Bit.ly + Google Analytics Campaign Builder Tool

zenshadow — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:55:12 -0000

maybe a bit off topic, but very important. anyone else having posting issues thru bit.ly lately (since the release of firefox 3.5) ... particularly the sharaholic firefox addon that has bit.ly as a social bookmarking (to twitter) keeps reporting a 'problem'. twitter working fine. cannot seem to post from the bit.ly site as well. help?? @zenshadow

Re: Bit.ly + Google Analytics Campaign Builder Tool

Nathaniel — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:11:44 -0000

Excellent stuff! I have always wanted the amazing features of analytics to be worked in tandem with Bit.ly - and now I can! Keep up the excellent work you guys - excellent work.

Re: Bit.ly + Google Analytics Campaign Builder Tool

Brian Geisel — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:25:28 -0000

Nice addition!

I was looking at some of the URL shorteners today and wondering why bit.ly is so popular. Now I know. I'll definitely be implementing this myself and adding a post on my blog about the merits of bit.ly.

Thanks!

Re: Bit.ly + Google Analytics Campaign Builder Tool

Dumb.ly — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:35:00 -0000

Unless bit.ly allows me to preview urls on a preview page without any downloads like bookmarklets and stuff like that, I'm never clicking any bit.ly link. Tinyurl gives me that option, by allowing preview links..and also enabling 'preview' on their site. So when I click on a tinyurl likn, I land on a tinyurl preview page, where I can see where I'm heading at..and I can make an informed decision whether to go ahead and visit the linked page, or abandon it.
In these days of viruses and trojans and malwares, I'm never clicking any random, unknown links..if I don't recognize it.

And btw, your 'Customer Feedback/Suggestions Feedback' page http://bitly.uservoice.com/... is retarded. What gave you the idea, that I can express this problem..which I just did above, in less than 140 stupid characters.

Re: Bit.ly + Google Analytics Campaign Builder Tool

fstop4 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:37:12 -0000

Very cool indeed, nice to see you guys keep adding more features.

Re: Bit.ly + Google Analytics Campaign Builder Tool

Mr. Gunn — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:03:21 -0000

Now this is the kind of discussion I'd like to be having! I'm going to say some stuff you're going to disagree with, and probably some stuff that pisses you off, Terry, but I want as much as you do to get analytics that works well, because I need to measure social media impact for my job, too. So I'm speaking from my perception of reality on how to get analytics that works, with no malice intended.

On a daily basis, I deal with problems and questions about measuring social media activity, and there really is no way to get corporate boards made up of mostly people who remember the Golden Age of radio to get on board with social media unless there's a good way to measure it. Unfortunately, the analytics tools are mostly made by people with a marketing/analytics background, which means most people won't use them, so the very use of them tags the user as a marketer, which means any link shortened with them starts out with a performance penalty. Bit.ly is popular because of the fact it's simple and clean - no frames or heavy tracking overhead, no wonkiness.

As much as I would love better metrics, the non-metric aspects of the shortener must come first if anyone's gonna use the thing. This is what bit.ly does well and ow.ly does really poorly.

Professional marketing and SEO is absolutely necessary for social media to be taken seriously by people with money, but you've got to think of yourselves like trash collectors. You provide a necessary service, but most people would rather you stayed out of sight and out of mind. Now, I understand that sounds really harsh, but I also think it reflects reality. It's a tough job - you're doing something really valuable and important, but you'll never be well-respected except among your own profession.

Now, how do we get analytics that puts the usability first, but also allows stats to be collected. IOW, without changing how bit.ly looks to the average user, how to we add analytics, invisibly?

Re: Bit.ly + Google Analytics Campaign Builder Tool

Eric P — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:20:22 -0000

Bit.ly's tag line is "Shorten, share and *track* your links". Analytics/Metrics/Tracking is the #1 reason that URL shorteners exist. Besides shortening URLs, of course :)

Go back through all the blog posts here, 80% of them deal with analytics.

Re: Bit.ly + Google Analytics Campaign Builder Tool

Djames — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:55:40 -0000

That's cool, they don't need to use this feature.

Re: Bit.ly + Google Analytics Campaign Builder Tool

onelag — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:29:24 -0000

Hey, I found out about this blog today. Sorry to bug but: why can't you use the "connect" twitter feature? It seems very insecure to set up a twitter account inside bit.ly, considering you don't really need to do it...

Re: Bit.ly + Google Analytics Campaign Builder Tool

Mr. Gunn — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:56:04 -0000

I do agree better analytics support would be great, but let's not forget that there are people besides marketers who shorten links and use twitter.

Re: Bit.ly + Google Analytics Campaign Builder Tool

kortina — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:36:13 -0000

Not right now, sorry.

Re: Bit.ly + Google Analytics Campaign Builder Tool

sourcedelica — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:19:44 -0000

We would like to be able to have Google Analytics source and medium url parameters automatically added to each link that gets shortened. That way our marketers and bloggers (who use Tweetdeck and bit.ly) don't have to remember to add them. Is this possible?

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Bordellführer — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:41:00 -0000

wow, really great instructions, thx! I'll give it a try

Re: Bit.ly + Google Analytics Campaign Builder Tool

Ted Rheingold — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:50:49 -0000

Nice.

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nickgonzalez — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:07:17 -0000

Awesome.

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digideth — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:39:35 -0000

thank you!