Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Referral Based Tracking

We've just added referral based tracking to Adjix. When you publish your Adjix link to different places on the web (Twitter, blog, website, discussion forum, etc.) you'll know where a person was when they clicked on your link.

In technical terms, this is known as the "referrer". In other words, let's say you post the link http://adjix.com/h4hr to both your blog and on Twitter. Each time someone clicks on it, you'll know if they were viewing your link on your blog or Twitter.

Google AdWords
Here at Adjix, we've found this feature extremely helpful when used in conjunction with Google AdWords. We take our landing page, that we use in AdWords, and run it through Adjix to get an Adjix URL which we paste into Google AdWords. Now, whenever someone clicks on our Google AdWords ad, we know exactly where Google was running our ad. Using this, we can refine which of Google's third party ad partners generate the most clicks. Also, since we collect the "clicker's" IP address we can confirm that our ads targeting the U.S. are only being run in the U.S.

Additionally, Google AdWords lags a couple hours between receiving an AdWords click and reporting it. But, with Adjix, you know instantly when your AdWords ad was clicked.

We've actually been collecting referral information for Adjix ad-free redirects for a while, so you'll see details in your Link Stats going back several weeks. We've just begun collecting the referrer data for Adjix ad links, so, newly created links, as of this week, will now have this feature.

When the Referer is "None" this usually means that the person either typed the Adjix link directly into their web browser or they clicked on it inside an e-mail.

We believe this feature along with last week's Bookmarklets announcement make Adjix a very appealing solution.

Please let us know what you think of the referral data.

Cheers,
Joe

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

One-Click Link Shrink

Bookmarklets
Today, we introduced Bookmarklets which let Linkers shrink URLs (web links) in a single click directly from their web browser.

Linkers no longer need to visit adjix.com in order to copy and paste links to shrink them. Now, it's as simple as a single click and the shorten link is automatically pasted into your clipboard. Each Bookmarklet is customized for each Linker.

You'll find your custom Bookmarklets under the main menu once you log into your Linker account. They work with Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari on Windows, Mac OS X, and the iPhone.

We've posted several video tutorials to demonstrate the power and convenience of Bookmarklets (Requires QuickTime - if you have iTunes installed then you have QuickTime):

1. Create your personal Bookmarklets video

2. One-Click Bookmarklets in action video

3. The Two-Click Bookmarklet in action video



Time Zones
 Also, with today's release, we're happy to introduce time zone support. Now each Linker and Advertiser can edit their profile and set their time zone to their local time.

With the Adjix Bookmarklets, link shrinking has never been easier.

Cheers,
Joe Moreno, President
Tel. 760.444.4721

Friday, October 3, 2008

Amazon downtime and Adjix

See how Amazon's downtime can affect Adjix link creation:
http://adjix.com/fpx4

Update (Oct 9): Regardless of Amazon downtime, Adjix links now go live instantaneously.