Comments on: 5 Steps to using Bit.ly to track your Online and Offline PR

By: Dave Chaffey

Dave Chaffey — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:03:21 +0000

Hi there – it could give some benefit, but not in Twitter since these links are no followed in Google if you believe that :). So just in other places the bit.ly links posted in the open. This fits into the category of things that don’t give enough incremental benefit to bother with IMO.

By: Littlemisswedding

Littlemisswedding — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:43:21 +0000

I read somewhere (I think E consultancy) that you should shorten the bitly links to a link with some of the relevant keywords or at least the subject e.g.
http://bit.ly/buttonholes_wedding
but I noticed that you just use the standard ones that they generate for you (for your tweets). Do you think it is not necessary to do what I am doing – presumably there is no SEO effect otherwise you would be doing it?

By: Dave Chaffey

Dave Chaffey — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:38:57 +0000

In reply to Brian Clifton.

Good shout Brian – not aware of that – installed now – thanks!

By: Brian Clifton

Brian Clifton — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:07:15 +0000

Hello Dave – maybe I have missed something here, but doesn’t the Tweetable plugin for wordpress do this for you?

You cannot customise the GA campaign parameters but they are tracked as utm_campaign=post title, utm_medium=social, utm_source=twitter

Then whenever you publish your article or someone tweets it, the campaign variables are past along…

By: Dave Chaffey

Dave Chaffey — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:50:15 +0000

In reply to Nathan McKelvey.

Yes, Nathan, I’m sure it will happen. I think Tweetdeck or similar is the most convenient place for it to happen. Or perhaps Twitter will develop its own desktop app sometime.

By: Nathan McKelvey

Nathan McKelvey — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:38:17 +0000

A Google analytics integration with Twitter would be amazing. Maybe some entrepreneurial programmer will come up with something for us. I would certainly pay for it. Thanks for the article.