Goo.gl Link Shortener – Free Stats At Your Fingertips!
Google offers a free and popular URL shortener, Goo.gl, which gives you the power to see click-through data on any goo.gl shortened link… not just ones that you created.
While not as deeply integrated in as many third-party services as Bit.ly (which also has trackable stats) is, Goo.gl is a viable choice when you need to shorten and track a URL and retrieve click stats.
Want to see the stats on that goo.gl URL you just saw scroll by in the twitter stream?
Easy peasy!
Simply copy the URL… for example: http://goo.gl/WPgUS
And paste it into your URL bar…
Add a + sign to the end of it… and hit enter!
Creating a Goo.gl Shortened Link at: http://goo.gl
Checking The Click Stats on A Goog.gl Shortened URL: http://goo.gl/WPgUS.info
So, while I use BudURL Pro when I am paying for click traffic from solo ads, and while I use Pretty Link Pro for on-site link tracking, this is another viable alternative for free link shortening services.
Do you use Goo.gl links?
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