Here’s an interesting way to use bit.ly to analyse click through traffic for posts on sites you don’t own!

I just read an interesting article on SEOMoz about SEO trends for 2010. I thought I’d tweet this on twitter as I thought it’d be of interest to the twitter.com/scotiasystems followers.

Signed in to bit.ly – I went to create a link to the post, and noticed the following metric:

 

 

The interesting thing to note here is the figure of “373”.   This is the total number of clicks going through the bit.ly service to the post on SEOMoz!

So I thought I’d try the same with some other posts on SEOMoz :

 

Here you can see that the other post has had 780 click thoroughs so far.

This could certainly be an interesting way to analyze articles on other sites to gauge the interest and click through statistics.