Thursday, June 25, 2009

Most Powerful Tool to Track Twitter Traffic

After completing my job hours when I reached at home, I was totally exhaused. But as a SEO consultant and providing SEO services, I was always finding the ways those will be helpful for our clients to understand and found a useful article about twitter.

There has been always a question how to track twitter traffic and get the perfect visits which was received by twitter. For it, Danny Sullivan has posted nice article along with detail information, it is worth to take a moment to visit URL Shorterners.

I don't know which method would be best for you, but for me Bit.ly works better. It allows me to track that how many people clicked on the link which I tweeted:

The above cited screenshot shows that Bit.ly had seen 15 total clicks to that URL through its system (when I did the screenshot), 15 of them coming from the shortened version which I created. But, when I saw it in Google Analytics, there was no any visit from it. It may happen that there would be different digits in your case such as Bit.ly shows 320 and Google Analytics shows 100 or 200 or anything. But the question is that how could it happen? I think as of Javascript. Google Analytics might have not been tracked mobile applications as a lot of people use twitter through mobile devices.

That's why Bit.ly is the most reliable tool for tracking twitter traffic than replaces JavaScript-based packages like Google Analytics or may be other (I don't know)

Let me know what is the powerful tool for you for twitter traffic with reasons.:)