The Buzz Bin

Move over TinyURL, there’s a new player in town – Cligs! This free service shortens URLs (known as cligs) and offers statistics for the cligs and web destinations. You can receive for URLs through Cligs’s many offerings. Features include the total number of hits, referral statistics, recent mentions of the URL on Twitter, Delicious bookmarks of the destinations and recent blog links to the URL destination.

Mentions of the cligs are categorized by Search Engine Bot Sightings (Yahoo!, Googlebot hits, and Googlebot Mobile hits). Cligs are highlighted with hits per day within the last 30 days in a graph. The service also calculates the social media mentions by cligs and by destination (the number of incoming links to the URL destination). Cligs’s Bookmarklet lets you drag and drop URLs into your browser’s toolbar. A unique trait Cligs offers is users can create multiple cligs per URL.

In addition to Cligs’s many offerings, they’ve created a customer feedback forum called We Want. Users submit ideas, vote and discuss what they want the Clig developers to add or remove from the service.

Buzz Meter Ranking: 4 out of 4 Buzz Bees

Positive: Cligs has one uped from their competitors (i.e. TinyURL and Short URL) with their unique offering of multiple cligs per URL. The implementation of a feedback forum specifically built for users in order to better the service lets users know their voices matter. Customer service is always number one for service companies.

Negative: Users are waiting for an API. Cligs created a specific mailing list for API developers to ‘geek out and take code and APIs.’

Conclusion: I really enjoy this tool. Overall Cligs offers their users an excellent service with the features and customer service forum. The blog lists their updates and as well as their mistakes and solutions to their errors. Cligs is certainly upping the anty for URL shortening services!