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There are many web services that shorten your URLs, e.g., tinyurl, etc. Cligs is another FREEweb service that allows you to shorten your URLs. Besides that, it also track every single click with detailed traffic statistics for that shortened URL.

The key features for Cligs are:

• All your short URLs are protected by your account which means only you can see the statistics.
• Within your account, you can create an unlimited number of cligs, with an unlimited number of cligs pointing to the same destination URL. This means you can drop different cligs into different sites and watch their traffic evolve over time; for example, two cligs pointing to the same destination can be used one in a forum and one on twitter and then the traffic from each one is tracked by Cligs.
• The service forwards all cligs to their destination using an HTTP 301 Permanent Redirect. This has several advantages, the key one being that the link value is passed through to the destination. This means that Cligs does not interfere with your SEO efforts.
• Cligs gives you a ton of traffic analytics, and more are constantly being added. At the moment, the available analytics are:
  • Total number of hits
  • Referral statistics
  • Recent mentions of the clig itself on twitter
  • Recent links (mentions) of the clig on blogs
  • Recent web links to the clig
  • Recent mentions of the destination URL on twitter
  • Recent blog links to the destination
  • Recent blog links to the destination
  • Recent web links to the destination
  • Delicious bookmarks of the destination
  • Total number of links to the destination

To get started, you will need to register for a FREE Cligs account. Once you have an account, the service guides you through the one-step short URL creation process.

You can also use the bookmarklet to create a clig, which can always be found at the create new clig page.