Apture and Kiw.is = URL shortening with a twist – Blog – Apture.com

http://blog.apture.com/2009/07/apture-and-kiwis-url-shortening-with-a-twist/

by joepestro • 17 years ago

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kineticac6• 17 years ago

Here's the example link from the post: http://kiw.is/5q

somagrand• 17 years ago

Great to see Apture and Kiw.is coming together. Huge fan of both products.

joepestro• 17 years ago

Thanks! Apture is actually really powerful and adds a lot to content (even automatically). I played with it at http://www.apture.com/create/ before implementing it into Kiwis.

zacharydanger3• 17 years ago

Yay link-jacking?

I'll send a memo to my squad of social media engine search optimization experts.

kineticac6• 17 years ago

not link jacking, it's putting a message before the redirect. You're still redirected to the original page. One way to think of it is a reverse twitter, instead of a message with a link, it's a link then a message.

zacharydanger3• 17 years ago

It seems you work on Kiw.is so I'm not sure if I should even try to articulate why I find your product to be annoying.

pclark• 17 years ago

you think a 10 second holding page is good?

kineticac6• 17 years ago

if it has good content. it would suck to get spammers or advertisers using it only, similar to following a Twitter user who's just spamming. But then there are the twitter accounts you like. It definitely can't mitigate all awful content. You're also getting these links from people you know hopefully.

ironkeith• 17 years ago

My reaction to redirect pages is always the same: "What? Oh." finds and clicks the skip ad button. So I don't really understand why sites bother with them.

Does anyone know of any metrics as to what percentage of the time that "skip" link is clicked? Does anyone know of any eyeball tracking studies to see how often people look immediately top right for that link?

I just can't believe those landing pages are of much value, but then I doubt I'm a typical user.

kineticac6• 17 years ago

Those are all good points and questions.

I think it also relies on the actual message in the content of the page. If that content is actually good, people will want to look at it. The percentage that the content is good? That's the question. Probably not too many.

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