Most URL’s are too long for twitter and need to be shortened. TinyURL is great for shortening long links but doesn’t provide its users with any time of feedback or analytics. Enter Cligs- Cligs is a short URL service that gives you access to detailed traffic statistics of your short URLs.

A “clig” is a short URL hosted on the service at http://cli.gs/. .

Key Features of Cligs

It is different from the traditional URL shortening services in many different ways. The key features are:

* All your short URLs are protected by your account which means only you can see the statistics.

* Within your account, you can create an unlimited number of cligs, with an unlimited number of cligs pointing to the same destination URL. This means you can drop different cligs into different sites and watch their traffic evolve over time; for example, two cligs pointing to the same destination can be used one in a forum and one on twitter and then the traffic from each one is tracked by Cligs.

* The service forwards all cligs to their destination using an HTTP 301 Permanent Redirect. This has several advantages, the key one being that the link value is passed through to the destination. Everyone loves link juice!

* Cligs includes a ton of traffic analytics. The available analytics are:

o Total number of hits

o Referral statistics

o Recent mentions of the clig itself on twitter

o Recent links (mentions) of the clig on blogs

o Recent web links to the clig

o Recent mentions of the destination URL on twitter

o Recent blog links to the destination

o Recent blog links to the destination

o Recent web links to the destination

o Delicious bookmarks of the destination

o Total number of links to the destination

There are a lot of statistic sites for twitter but most of them deal with posts and followers a lot of nice charts but not entirely useful. This service aims to provide useful information concerning links posted on twitter.

Tags: twitter, cligs, social media, southwest seo