Add Bitly to Google Chrome to Save Time

Nicki Gauthier

November 30th, 2011
by Nicki Gauthier

Time is precious and every minute and second that can be saved is worth it. I discovered something today that will help me be more efficient with my time. What is it? It is the bitly extension addition to my Google Chrome toolbar. With this tool you can shorten, share and track links with your bitly account, right from your browser!  Check out the nifty screenshot I made (using Jing) to show you how I use it. To add this tool, go here. 

Other benefits:

* Preview metrics and page titles for bitly and bitly Pro links before you click them.
* Receive instant notifications about your trending bitly links.
* Shorten links on Twitter.com with a single click.

Google Chrome and Bitly extension

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Comments:

  1. Jennie Jacobs

    Jennie Jacobs
    (November 30th, 2011 at 6:43 pm)

    To my dearest Nicki,
    This is such a great time saving tip that you just made my day! I go back in forth between Twitter and Bitly and linking pages in my tabs that my web browser becomes such a mess. This is a lovely time saver and keeps my window free of one extra tab!

    Couple of notes from my self exploration:
    - Bitly will give you a short link to the page you are on, but you ALSO have the ability to highlight any link on the page before hitting the bit.ly icon and it will shorten that link as well!
    - you must make a bit.ly account before the extension works (which allows you to edit your extension options to your liking)
    - In your options you can also set up Auto Copy Short Urls so your short url is ready in your paste board automatically! Brilliant!

    Hope that helps!

  2. Nicki Gauthier

    Nicki Gauthier
    (November 30th, 2011 at 6:51 pm)

    To my dearest Jennie, JJ, Jennie Jen Jen,
    Love your comment and thank you for sharing more benefits :) Yes, peeps you have to create a FREE bitly account first. And there are cool customization tools and more so of course review the tool to get the most out of it and to save time!
    - Nick Nack

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