If you are looking to go behind TinyURL and use a URL shortener with analytics capability, these 5 services are worth trying:

dlvr.it: a content syndication service that lets you distribute your content across social media and keep track of the love your followers and friends send your way.

Bit.ly: bit.ly does not need any introduction. Those of you who have been on Twitter for a couple of years have probably used bit.ly a lot of times. Bit.ly pro/enterprise give you more flexibility and can be implemented on your own domain.

Su.pr: StumbleUpon is a blogger’s best friend. If you have content that is in demand, you can rely on this community to go viral with your content and get a ton of traffic. Su.pr is the URL shortening service for StumbleUpon that can get you more stumbles over the long run.

ClickMeter: it is a service we have used to track click fraud in the past. Lets you keep track of unique clicks on your links and even gives you access to IP information.

awe.sm: this is one exciting service, especially for developers. It has something for everyone. As a publisher, you can use it to keep track of your links and analyze your results more conveniently.

Which URL shortening service are you using?

If you have tried Google Analytics and Woopra in the past and want to try other tools to gather even more knowledge about your visitors, these 5 analytics web tools are worth a try:

Klout: a wonderful Twitter analytics tool that shows you what you have been doing wrong and helps you figure out things you need to do to take your Twitter strategy to the next level.

Mouseflow: records your visitors and shows you how they interact with certain elements on your website. Great tool if you are planning to set up a landing page or optimize an existing one.

Going Up: a very dynamic tool for those of you who have spent a lot of your effort to get traffic from the search engines. It’s a complete analytics software that shows you where your pages are ranked, where your visitors are coming from, and what keywords they are using to get to your website, among other things.

Radian6: a great tool for businesses that want to start listening to and engaging with their customers in top social networks more effectively. It can be used as an online reputation management system.

Tynt: shows you how your visitors have interacted with your website. For instance, by using this tool, you can see what people tend to copy the most on your blog. A handy tool to analyze your visitors’ behavior.

What analytics tools are you using on your blog?

Whether you are posting affiliate links to your blog or want to make sure how many clicks your banners get, it’s always nice to have a tool that lets you know exactly how many clicks you have gotten, and how many of them are possibly fraudulent. ClickMeter is an innovative service that is designed to help you figure out just that and more. If you have a URL that you want to track more closely, ClickMeter has you covered.

You can essentially think of ClickMeter as a URL shortening and management tool. It allows you to add your own links to your dashboard easily and track unique clicks and possible fraud clicks at all times. Once you have added your URL to the system, you can use the links on your dashboard to upload your link to social networking website or just map their links (see above image). 

I personally love the charting capability of this service. It makes it so easy to find out how well each link is performing. You can compare unique and fraudulent clicks as well which is a big plus. This service is capable of tracking IPs and can show you click distribution over a world map as well.

Adding a link to this service is not too hard either. You can define what tracking service you want to use for each link and can pick a friendly name for your link as well. You even have the option to choose the type of redirect you want to use for each link (307 or 301). ClickMeter may not be completely free, but it’s a useful service for anyone interested in gathering information on links. Makes dealing with links much more scientific.

Recently, I got a note from the good people behind Woopra that their beta program was coming to a close. In case you are not familiar with the service, Woopra is a deep website analytics package that helps you figure out where your visitors are coming from, where they are going, and how you can change things around on your website to increase your visitors, get them to stay more often, and even find out how to plan your future posts.

If you have used Google Analytics before, you are probably familiar with how an analytics program works. These programs show you where your visitors are coming from, and where they are going. You can easily find out which pages on your blog are performing poorly, and why that’s happening. You can also find out on which pages your visitors are spending their majority of their times on. Woopra offers you all this information and more. You can find out which country your visitors are coming your website from and what operating system and browser they are using.

What I like about Woopra is the easy to use interface. Google Analytics is very powerful as well, but with Woopra, you have everything you need in front of you. So you don’t have to jump through hoops or read a thick guide to figure out how to get it to work. The live tracking feature is very useful as well as you can stay on the top of your statistics and optimize your blog accordingly.

Ultimately, Woopra is a very easy to use blog analytics package that enables you to point out your top posts, your best entry pages, and your top exit pages. By using the information that you receive from Woopra, you can optimize your blog posts and write about topics that get the most attention from your visitors. Who says blogging can’t be scientific?

Anybody can have a blog these days. Solutions such as Blogger or WordPress make it so easy to set up a blog and start writing. In order to build a decent blog, you need to write good content and find a way to get people involved. In short, you’ve got to work at building relationships with your visitors and provide them with the value that makes them want to come back to you for more. Tynt Tracer is a cool tracking system designed for bloggers to allow them to track what their readers do on the site and what sections of it they found the most engaging.

Tracer makes it so easy to find out what people have been doing on your blog. You can easily figure out what keywords or images have been copied. Even when someone decides to highlight a portion of your content, Tracer will let you know about it. Tracer can also help you identify what pages people spend most of their time on. That can give you some more ideas about your future blog posts.

What I love about Tracer is its “credit” feature. It’s all too normal for folks to come to a site and copy/paste a portion of your content on their very own blog. You can always try to reach out to these folks and ask them to take your content down. But you can’t catch them all. With Tracer, every-time someone copies a piece of your content and pastes it to their blog, you are going to get a link back to your site. That way, you at least get credit for your work. And let’s not forget that you get traffic from all these links as well.

Overall, Tynt Tracer is a cool blog analytics platform that lets you find new ways to engage your users and build a more solid community around your blog. It also helps you fight content theft. If you are a blogger looking to get your site to the next level by engaging a larger number of your visitors, you should try Tynt. It’s free!