Stepping away from strictly SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for a moment, I want to take a few minutes to share an idea with all of you that you may not be aware of. If you use bit.ly to shorten a ...

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When I first started on the BeatBlogging.org project almost three years ago, very few journalists and news organizations were using social media. In fact, you were considered kind of strange if you ...

Bit.ly is arguably the best and most complete service amongst the over-crowded URL Shorteners. Like me, if you are a fan of Bitly and often use it to shorten links and then track its performance, here ...

When Twitter decided to start using Bit.ly as its default URL-shortener, usage exploded. But the service was able to handle the rise in usage, and has been steadily adding new features. And now other ...

To find a Web page you wanted in the pre-Google era, you often had to guess at its address. Was General Motors generalmotors.com, general-motors.com, or gm.com? This led to all kinds of trouble—a ...

A lot of people are wondering about using .ly (Libyan) domains now that casualties in the Libyan protests are mounting and the revolutions are more closely wed to technology than many could have ever ...

Bit.ly, the worlds most popular URL shortener announced a new service called Bit.ly pro in mid-December 2009. The service was designed to let bloggers set up custom URL shoreteners using Bit.ly’s well ...

On Wednesday at Twitter’s Chirp conference, CEO Evan Williams released another bomb during the wrap-up Q&A session: Twitter is working on creating it’s own link shortener for Twitter.com. Once again, ...

For advertisers who are using Bit.ly to send out campaign messages, these real-time stats have monetary value. Companies have asked Bit.ly for much more detailed stats—the ability to test which ...