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Re: BudURL Provides a URL Shortener With Analytics

XR — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:54:39 -0000

exile -- actually xr.com supports use of x.bb so that seems to be the shortest competitor....

Re: BudURL Provides a URL Shortener With Analytics

exile — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:35:44 -0000

Budurl is nice, but it look likes the shortest competitor is.gd received new competitor - xs.md :)

Re: BudURL Provides a URL Shortener With Analytics

XR — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:33:01 -0000

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.

Re: BudURL Provides a URL Shortener With Analytics

Satyajit — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:51:02 -0000

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).

Re: BudURL Provides a URL Shortener With Analytics

phaithful — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:51:49 -0000

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.

Re: BudURL Provides a URL Shortener With Analytics

Adults Social Network — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:24:18 -0000

budurl is very nice site, just like tiny url type site.

Re: BudURL Provides a URL Shortener With Analytics

Joshua Baer — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:47:39 -0000

I've been using BudURL for a while and I really like it. Can't wait until they allow my own custom domain!

Re: BudURL Provides a URL Shortener With Analytics

Guy McLaren — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:19:28 -0000

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.

Re: BudURL Provides a URL Shortener With Analytics

Nick Wilsdon — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:17:13 -0000

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.

http://www.cli.gs/

Re: BudURL Provides a URL Shortener With Analytics

Gregg G. — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:59:59 -0000

Budurl.com has replaced my need for TinyUrl.com. Thank you!

Re: BudURL Provides a URL Shortener With Analytics

Mark Dykeman — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:29:29 -0000

This looks interesting. Thanks for writing the review. I hadn't realized this kind of service existed.

Re: BudURL Provides a URL Shortener With Analytics

Andy Meadows — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:33:02 -0000

Leslie,

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