Exploring Bitly

- Hi, and welcome to another episode…of Weekly Marketing Tips.…I'm Brad Batesole, and this week, I'd like to talk about a…quick way to explor Bitly statistics from your competitors.…Now you likely have encountered these…Bitly links around the web.…Here's an example of one that was published by lynda.com…on their Facebook page.…And bit.ly is really a link shortening tool.…So you'll take a really long link with all of your…wonderful tracking, you'll put it in bit.ly,…and it'll generate this nice, concise, short link.…

Now if I click on this and open it in a new tab,…you'll notice that it drives me directly to the page…that Lynda intended me to go to.…If I go back over, I can also show you that…by copy and pasting this link, and I'll paste it…into the address bar above, and choose Enter.…Again, you can see it just acts as a simple redirect.…But here's something that you may not have discovered yet.…If you take a Bitly link and add a plus symbol…to the end of it, so just add that plus icon directly…to the Bitly link, and choose Enter in the address bar,…