BudUrl.com – Why You Should Keep Your Eye On These Guys

Posted by Paul Colligan on Wednesday, October 22, 2008

I wanted to give you a heads up to a very cool program/product BudURL.com. At a quick glance, they might seem like your “average” URL shortener but … watch the embedded video below:

For those who can’t see the embedded video in their RSS feeds, here is the BUDURL.com video on YouTube, Yahoo, MySpace, Metacafe, Google, Revver, AOL Video, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Veoh, Crackle, Stupid Videos, Sclipo, Viddler, Howcast and 5min – take your pick on how you want to view it.

in short, the program let’s you “shorten” a long URL (in the video, the example was the Blog post previous to this one) and get tracking on where that URL is being clicked.

These kind of metrics are a goldmine to anyone paying attention online. As one of my readers, I know you are salivating at this point.

The team assures me that deeper and more advanced metrics are coming and that a new paid version will make us very happy.

I say keep your eye on these guys for 2 reasons: 1) This is a killer product and 2) They’re actually going to charge for this thing so it has a chance of actually making it.

They even Twittered this one:

New features are coming this week. Lots of updates before month-end. Official “trials” begin Nov 1. Paid accounts mid-Nov. Thx!!!

Actually guys, thank you.

  • http://www.hotyogadoctor.com/ Robert Scanlon

    Nice one Paul – I certainly shall keep an eye out.

    As they say – if you can’t measure it, what’s the use?

    (Who exactly did say that! LOL. Probably my extrapolation of Olgivy’s “50% of my advertising is useless spending. Problem is I don’t know which 50%.”)

    Thanks Paul, you da man!

  • http://budurl.com Andy Meadows

    Paul,

    Thanks again for spreading the love on BudURL. To answer Robert Scanlon, if Olgivy had BudURL.com, he would have known which 50%. :-)

    Andy
    budurl.com

  • http://StoneColdStuff.com/blog StoneCS

    Wow! That’s too cool Paul! This will definitely get some use. This is one of the areas I’m lacking the most, tracking my ads.

    I’m getting all kinds of ideas where I can use this.

    Thanks much,
    B. Stone

  • http://monsterboxpro.com Andrew Brown

    I tried it in Twitter and got some interesting results.
    Thanks for the tutorial

  • http://www.klikdeal.com/ Peter – Software Marketing Secrets

    Budurl is good, but you should check out klikdeal. With klikdeal you can also choose the link name you want to use plus track it.

    For example my twitter links:
    http://klikdeal.com/Twitter/TestingTwitter.php

    Check it out.
    http://www.klikdeal.com/

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