Easy Way to Convert in Twitter

If you don’t know what Twitter is by now, then you must be living under a rock. While the obvious plus of the network is that you can converse with many people at one time, I believe the best benefit of Twitter is URL cloaking.

By url cloaking, I mean websites showing up as different URL’s than what they really are:

i.e. http://youraffiliate.com/yourtrackingid turns into http://tinyurl.com/jkdhfs

For the most part, Twitter automatically coverts most URL’s into TinyURL format. The beauty of this is that, you are given the ability to easy cover your affiliate links and ids, which allows for higher conversion rates. Also people must rely more on your brief description than to know what they are clicking on by the URL address.

People are curious. If they can’t tell what something is by the address, then, at the very least, they will at least click on the link and see what it is. That is all you can ask for.

While you can’t go wrong with just using the default of TinyURL, there are better options. The key to online success is to track everything you do. Track clicks, where people are coming from, what they are seeing, and so on. Yes, TinyURL cloaks your URL, but it doesn’t track it.

A very useful service I came across called Bit.ly allows you to easily, cloak, share, and track your url from anywhere. So if you post the link on some other site than yours, you can still track the link. If you are really lazy, then you can also share your links to various social networks straight from the site.

Free to sign up and easy to manage. Check out Bit.ly.