LinkBlip: Get email notifications when someone clicks a link

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LinkBlip: Get email notifications when someone clicks a link

by Brad Linder Feb 18th 2008

You spend the day scouring the web for funny, interesting, and gross articles to send to your friends, family, and colleagues. But is it really worth it? Do they even click the links you email them? LinkBlip provides an easy way to find out.

All you have to do is enter your email address and the URL you want people to click on. LinkBlip will spit out a TinyURL-style shortened link that you can share with anyone. When they click on the link, you'll receive an email. You also get a link to a site that will let you know how many times people have clicked on your link. In theory, you can also see the geographic location of those who click on your links, but we found that the results weren't particularly accurate.

[via Lifehacker]

Tags: linkblip, notification, tinyurl

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jordan Running said 7:48AM on 2-19-2008

This reminds me of Instant Gratification, a now defunct service by Dan Grigsby that would send you an IM every time someone visited your web site.

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