First of all if you ever want to shorter a web link that you’re going to use on twitter you have to use www.bit.ly . Bit.ly is an excellent free tool to shorten your url. For example: you have this address: http://twitterskills.com/twitter-marketing/7-steps-to-a-ton-of-traffic/ you can use the url shorter Bit.ly to make this address smaller in size so your whole tweet is not just a web address. You would go to bit.ly and submit this url and they will give you a shorter url, for example something like this: http://bit.ly/911A0 . The whole purpose of this tool is to shorter your url so it doesn’t take up your whole tweet you tweet!
1. go to bit.ly submit this url http://twitterskills.com/twitter-marketing/7-steps-to-a-ton-of-traffic/
2. Bit.ly will come back with shorten version of this site such as http://bit.ly/911A0
3. Use the short url to tweet the website!
So now that you know how to use bit.ly to shorten your url we can go to the pro league of using bit.ly. Many people don’t know that you can track the statistics or how many people have clicked on your shortened link of bit.ly/website-that-you-shorted. Yes you can run statistics on your free short url, why you would want to run statistics on websites you tweet is a whole new subject that I promise to cover soon because its very important for you do so.
Here is 1 step to track your Tweet link:
1. After you created your short url on bit.ly just add /info/ right after bit.ly
here is an example:
bit.ly/info/911A0
That’s it guys, nice an easy twitter skill for your business. Soon I will cover the topic of using statistics and why your business absolutely needs it.
