How to Track Shortened Urls With bit.ly

In this day and age of social media, blogging and micro-blogging, shortened URLs are a blessing, and in the case of micro-blogging, save you valuable posting 'real estate'. You may have wondered how to track your URLs or to see if your tweets are resulting in increased views. bit.ly allows you to do that quickly and easily.

Steps

1. Go to www.bit.ly/ and sign up  for a free account.




2. Fill in the area for your twitter  account if you will be posting the URLs through there.  This allows the site to send out the URL that you will be tracking.




3. Decide whether or not you want to shorten another one. 
Once you have shortened one, the screenshot shows your screen with the results. You can choose to shorten another one at that point.




4. Watch the results from your shortened URL !!




5. Take advantage of the toolbar or 'bookmarklet'.

Tips

• See your top three of your URLs at the right side of your screen.