use bitly to shorten your link

WHAT IS BITLY ?


Bitly is a URL shortening service.


Bitly was established in 2008.


It is privately held and based in New York City.


Bitly shortens more than one billion links per month.


For use in social networking , SMS and Email.


Bitly Services


The bitly URL shortening service became popular on

Twitter


after it became the default URL shortening service on the website on May 6, 2009.


It was subsequently replaced by Twitter's own t.co service.


In addition to its main URL shortening service, the website provides tools


to view statistics related to users that click on generated

links.


The company behind bitly launched a similar service, but for online videos


to determine what videos are the most popular on the web.


The company uses HTTP 301 redirects for its links


The shortcuts are intended to be permanent and cannot be

changed once they are created.


URLs that are shortened with the bitly service use the

bit.ly


domain or any other generic domain that the service

offers.


The company offers a paid solution called Bitly Enterprise that provides

advanced branding features.


Companies can use their own custom domains to generate

shortened links


for example, The New York Times uses nyti.ms, and Pepsi

uses pep.si.


This allows the company to push brand awareness on services

such as Twitter but use the bitly


engine to generate the shortened URLs and track

marketing metrics.


Bitly Enterprise also has advanced analytics features

and uses bitly data


to provide advanced social insight tools for companies

and brands.


Information about any short bitly URL http://bit.ly/x is

available at http://bit.ly/x+


(that is, the URL with a plus sign appended)


for examplehttp://bit.ly/QtQET+


This allows users to see and check the long URL before

visiting it.


Since October 12, 2010, users can automatically generate QR codes that


when scanned with a mobile QR code reader, automatically direct users to shortened links.


On May 29, 2012, bitly announced "Bitmarks", a new search feature


with enhanced public profiles and an iPhone app.


HOW TO USE BITLY?


Go to your browser


Go to www.bitly.com


First you need to sign up


You can sign up using your facebook


And your twitter


And email address


We can use bitly to make our link short


Let’s try to my blog site


Go to your website


This is my website


Now let’s copy the link


Go back to bitly


Paste you URL link here


Now you can build your link by adding bitly/


Then click save


Now let’s try to copy our bitlink and paste it to

browser


Now It works we build a short link for our website

URL


Now let’s back to Bitly


Bitly can show you the num. of click of your link


Let’s try this one


As you can see there is a 1 click


Now to see the stats of the click , Click view stats


Scroll down


You can see the time and days of your links has been click


Where this bitlink was shared


You can also see the geographic distribution of clicks


You can also see those who shared a bitlink to this content


Now you know how to use bitly to shorten your URL link.


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use bitly to shorten your link

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