Archive for the ‘URL Link Shortener’ Category

Don’t Spew Link Vomit: Brand the Good Stuff!

Monday, October 26th, 2009
Social media has become THE marketing darling of 2009, and being in complete control of your brand and message via the different platforms becomes more and more important as the medium gains momentum. I had the pleasure of moderating a panel last week at BarCamp Nashville with members of the social media team at The Tennessean to talk about content and branding as it relates to social media campaigns, and wanted to highlight some of the discussion and great insight from those guys on how they go about marketing in the social space. We are now producing and sharing more content ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/1572/dont-spew-link-vomit-brand-the-good-stuff

How to Setup kl.am URL Shortener on Tweetie 2 for iPhone

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Atebits recently released their new version of Tweetie for the iPhone. For me, it’s the best Twitter client that’s ever been made for the iPhone. You can read this in depth review of Tweetie to get a better idea of everything Tweetie 2 has to offer. The feature I want to highlight is Tweetie 2’s ability to support 3rd party URL Shorteners. We developed our own URL shortener called kl.am, but since it’s not called bit.ly or Digg, we’ve had a difficult time getting 3rd party Twitter clients to support it natively. Tweetie lifted that barrier by building in support for ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/1508/how-to-setup-klam-url-shortener-on-tweetie-2-for-iphone

Kl.am API

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
People use Twitter in a vast variety of ways, and one of the more popular is pulling your blog’s RSS feed to it so that your followers can easily see when you have an updated blog post. But wouldn’t you like to track that traffic as well? See what kind of headlines grab attention, what doesn’t work, etc. Popular service Twitterfeed now includes kl.am integration so you can do just that. When you sign up for Twitterfeed, you’re given a basic screen to input your Twitter information, as well as information for the feed of your blog or news page: However, if ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/571/klam-api

kl.am URL Link Shortener Now Supports Google Analytics Campaign Source, Medium and Name Variables

Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Did you know that you can tag your links so you can sort results in Google Analytics? Well you can and Google even has a link tagging document to prove it. Google Analytics’ link tagging capabilities allow you to uniquely identify virtually any campaign you can think of. But, don’t think that you must use all six fields in the URL Builder form in each of your links. On the contrary, you’ll usually only need to use Source, Medium, Name, and Term (for paid keywords). The table below shows how you might tag the three most common kinds of online campaigns ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/393/klam-url-link-shortener-now-supports-google-analytics-campaign-source-medium-and-name-variables