Social Bookmarking Support Integrated into Adjix

We're happy to announce that social bookmarking for all major social networks has now been integrated directly into Adjix. When shrinking a link or posting a tweet you now have the ability to bookmark the link and "Tell a Friend" using:
Digg, Facebook, MySpace, Gmail, Yahoo! mail, Google Talk, MSN, AOL Instant Messenger, Blogger, WordPress, Delicious, StumbleUpon, BuzzUp, Reddit, Slasdot, and more.

After shrinking a link through the Adjix website, simply mouse over the text field with the shorten link and choose how you'd like to bookmark your link or spread the word.

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When using Adjix2Twitter, your tweet link is automatically feed into the social bookmarking widget. From there you can edit it before bookmarking it or sending it on its way.

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Please don't hesitate to let us know what you think of the Tell a Friend widget.

Cheers,
Joe

Delayed Tweeting and Multiple Twitter Account Support

Today we rolled out a few key features to make using Adjix to tweet on Twitter even better.

1. Delayed Tweeting
2. Multiple Twitter Account Support
3. Adjix2Twitter with and without Link Shrink

1. Delayed Tweeting
Now you can use Adjix2Twitter to schedule tweets to be sent out either immediately or schedule them to go out hours, days, or months into the future. If you make a mistake scheduling a tweet, you can log into your Adjix Linker account and delete it.

2. Multiple Twitter Account Support
Adjix now supports multiple Twitter accounts. This is ideal for people who use one Twitter account for business and another for personal tweeting. If you already have an Adjix account then edit your profile to add a second Twitter account.

3. Adjix2Twitter with and without Link Shrink
With Adjix2Twitter Bookmarklets (also referred to as Firefox plug-ins) you have a choice: You can either shrink a link and tweet it with a single click or you can skip the link shrinking and tweet from inside your web browser in a single click.

Video: Adjix2Twitter with link shrink

Video: Adjix2Twitter without link shrink

Twitter Data Analysis

Twitter data analysis of 10.2M tweets from 2.7M users shows Adjix as the 9th most popular URL shortener on Twitter: http://adjix.com/n4e

Thoughts on Linking

We've encountered a small number of Internet purists who feel that people should not get paid to link to other websites under any circumstances. Obviously, this is exactly the opposite of how we, at Adjix, feel.

Content websites run ads (whether they're news sites or blogs) that generate revenues for the content providers. When a person forwards a link to a website, the person forwarding that link receives no benefit from the additional traffic he or she directed to the content provider. At Adjix, we're trying to help out the link forwarder and we call those people Linkers.

Options and More Options
Adjix has an option to not include any ads when Linkers use Adjix to shrink a link - but we still collect link click data for all Linkers. The data we collect is part of Adjix's "big payoff". Additionally, users have an option to remove an ad after clicking on an Adjix link. A couple months ago, an eject button icon was added in the upper right to remove Adjix ads and yesterday, to make it clearer, the eject button was replaced with a simple link that reads, "Remove ad".

Feedback
Many of our new features come from our users, either directly or via feedback.adjix.com. Like all startups, we have more features to implement than time in the day - but we're working as quickly as possible. Most recently, we've received excellent feedback on Adjix2Twitter and we'll be rolling out enhancements for this out soon.

We've noticed that a number of bloggers will constructively criticize Adjix in their blogs, but we may never hear of it; so don't forget to send us a link when you post your thoughts on Adjix. We'd love to hear your feedback, directly.

Our Favorite Tweets

We just had to brag about our favorite tweets on Twitter.

Plus, we have a little buzz going.

Twitter Comes to Adjix

Twitter Comes to Adjix
Adjix is now integrated with Twitter. With a single click of the Adjix2Twitter Bookmarklet you can create a short link for the web page you're viewing and add your comments to be posted to Twitter. Here's a 30 second video demonstrating this new feature:
http://adjix.com/78z4

Of course, these links are trackable like any other Adjix link. Just log into your Adjix Linker account and click on Bookmarklets to get your Adjix2Twitter Bookmarklet.

Use Adjix With Your Own Domain Name
Adjix2Twitter also supports your personal domain name. In other words, if you own a domain name, such as example.com, then you can configure go.example.com or links.example.com, etc., to work with your Adjix created links by updating your Linker profile. Details here:
http://adjix.com/ms83

Why is Adjix the Best Link Shortening and Tracking Site?
This page explains it best:
http://adjix.com/5wd2

Cheers,
Joe

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