![]() ![]() It honestly does not matter to me how many times a link was decoded (or even that it’s called that) … if a link is decoded 1,000,000 times, but only 2 people have clicked on it and seen the resulting content, the important number to me is 2, not 1,000,000. I think what everyone is trying to say is that it doesn’t matter to us what causes the additional visible clicks on our bit.ly links, if they aren’t visitors, we don’t want to see it. I’m considering using a different tracker for a while and see how it compares with the other stats. One bit.ly link alone shows 380 clicks, another 180, another 75.Į is a large site and I get traffic from a number of other sources.Īgain, if we ignore all of those other sources and just imagine the bit.ly links are providing traffic, that’s hundreds and hundreds of hits compared to 85. Their reporting tool shows 85 hits for one day, but I have multiple bit.ly links pointing to the column. I have bit.ly links pointing to my column on. I have other bit.ly links pointing to the Blog, and other links elsewhere, and a tiny bit of regular traffic.īut even if my ONLY traffic was from this bit.ly link, 125-24 is 101. ![]() Bit.ly says I got 125 clicks on a single link yesterday, but Analytics says I have 24 visits for the entire day. I have a bit.ly link pointing to a Blogger Blog with Analytics on it. I’ve had this issue on different platforms. Update: There’s a discussion of possible causes on FriendFeed. Particularly if you’ve seen the same thing for a different blog platform, like Blogger or Typepad. If you’ve got any hypotheses or have seen this yourself, I’d love to hear about it. Is bit.ly borked? Is WordPress off? This isn’t the first time I’ve seen these kinds of differences. How can the numbers be so far apart? I mean, that’s not a rounding error. Say what?!!! Bit.ly is telling me the post got 125 hits. Hey…that sounds pretty good, doesn’t it? Plenty of clicks to the ol’ blog.īut then check out the number of views recorded for this same blog post the past week: Bit.ly dutifully tracked the clicks on my shortened URL. This post was from last November.įast forward. The second bit.ly URL links to my post Newsletters Are Still Viable? How I Approached My First Newsletter Email. The first bit.ly URL is to Dennis Howlett’s blog post. That, or something is seriously wrong with ’s traffic stats. Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan has a nice write-up about it.īut something isn’t right with the counts I’m seeing from bit.ly. The service recently moved to make click counts much more visible, which is really helpful to see at a glance what got the interest of people you shared the link with. It’s a tremendous service, provide wonderful analytics along with the basic URL shortening feature. ![]() I love the URL shortening service bit.ly, as I’ve written before. ![]()
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