cli.gs
I don’t think I’ve ever done a review on a URL shortening service. Frankly, I think they’re useful, and they’re fun (if you’re hiding weird Internet URL’s in them and spreading the horrors of the Web to your friends), but outside of that, most of them don’t have much of a value, and by that I mean – a way to measure how that link you create is used. Cligs has introduced “short URLs with analytics”, says so right there in their tagline.
What’s this do? Well, it lets you at least see if what you’re spreading is effectively being spread, that’s for one. The other? I can think of applications where analytics for a shortened URL could come in handy. Heck, if you don’t want to take the time to stand up an email service, you could effectively build an entire email campaign using cligs and measure how it’s doing based on their charting.
Perhaps that’s a bit much, but it’s possible to run little URLs from cli.gs and get their successes and failures in a report. Pretty neat, I like.
