Thanks for the great feedback and review! You mentioned the concern about revealing too much info in a BudURL. You can add a question mark (?) to the end of any BudURL to be taken to a preview page rather than a straight redirect. We're working on adding in future privacy measures as well. Adding a "/s" to the end of a budurl will show you the click-count, but detailed stats are only available for registered users.
More analytics insight and reporting will be coming over the next two weeks + a lot more visual enhancements.
We have received great feedback so far from our subscribers and are adding in their features as fast as we can.
You may also be interested in Cli.gs - again it's a URL shortening service with analytics. It's nearly as short as is.gd (only 5 characters) so you don't have to give up any space.
I have been collecting IP addresses for years on my sites. They have very limited value, but they did help me control spam for a while. I think budURL has a huge benefit for marketers and less savvy users. In fact I wrote an article on using budURL for your own benefit. Using the metrics to best effect can make a huge difference to your marketing efforts.
Joshua Baer
· 1 year ago
I've been using BudURL for a while and I really like it. Can't wait until they allow my own custom domain!
XR
· 1 year ago
You can use your own domain at xr.com. Simply replace xr.com with your own domain or subdomain in the Custom field.
Doesn't have as in-depth stats as Budurl though.
Adults Social Network
· 1 year ago
budurl is very nice site, just like tiny url type site.
phaithful
· 1 year ago
Having tried both BudURL and Cligs, I'd have to say currently http://cli.gs/ is a much better service as far as providing analytics back to the user.
Not only do you get a slick data visualization graph for each of your shorten URLs, you also know when Google or Yahoo search engines have crawled your link, and you can see how the shortened URL and original source URL are performing on social networks (e.g. twitter, delicious, google blogs, etc)
What especially love is that I can easily create multiple shorten URLs for the same destination URL with different tracking codes to see if I'm getting more clicks from my Twitter updates, my Facebook updates, or my FriendFeed updates.
Satyajit
· 1 year ago
BudURL seems to be good. Except for one thing. Can I delete the URL once I create it? I like everything about cli.gs except its domain name :-) Kinda sux. When oyu tell someone over the phone, they go 'What?', 'Can you spell that?'. But featurewise, its great! BudURL sounds great (remember, your domainname is the biggest marketing tool you have).
exile
· 11 months ago
Budurl is nice, but it look likes the shortest competitor is.gd received new competitor - xs.md :)
XR
· 11 months ago
exile -- actually xr.com supports use of x.bb so that seems to be the shortest competitor....
All Comments
Thanks for the great feedback and review! You mentioned the concern about revealing too much info in a BudURL. You can add a question mark (?) to the end of any BudURL to be taken to a preview page rather than a straight redirect. We're working on adding in future privacy measures as well. Adding a "/s" to the end of a budurl will show you the click-count, but detailed stats are only available for registered users.
More analytics insight and reporting will be coming over the next two weeks + a lot more visual enhancements.
We have received great feedback so far from our subscribers and are adding in their features as fast as we can.
Track us online in Twitter at http://budurl.com/hlm6
Thanks!
Andy
http://www.cli.gs/
Doesn't have as in-depth stats as Budurl though.
Not only do you get a slick data visualization graph for each of your shorten URLs, you also know when Google or Yahoo search engines have crawled your link, and you can see how the shortened URL and original source URL are performing on social networks (e.g. twitter, delicious, google blogs, etc)
What especially love is that I can easily create multiple shorten URLs for the same destination URL with different tracking codes to see if I'm getting more clicks from my Twitter updates, my Facebook updates, or my FriendFeed updates.
Can I delete the URL once I create it? I like everything about cli.gs except its domain name :-) Kinda sux. When oyu tell someone over the phone, they go 'What?', 'Can you spell that?'.
But featurewise, its great!
BudURL sounds great (remember, your domainname is the biggest marketing tool you have).