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Thanks. FWIW, we do own optimize.ly but we have it set up with bitly Pro. This makes it easy for us to do short URLs (see: http://twitter.com/optimizely http://

Thanks. FWIW, we do own optimize.ly but we have it set up with bitly Pro. This makes it easy for us to do short URLs (see: http://twitter.com/optimizely http://twitter.com/optimizely). Unfortunately it costs $995 per month to do the root domain redirect (see: http://bit.ly/pro/products http://bit.ly/pro/products). Hard to justify the cost considering how many delicious burritos per month this could buy.

rubergly 16y ago
Sounds like a good decision for now. Although I wonder if it's smart in the long run to be blocking out root redirect to optimize.ly, which is the URL many users may attempt to reach, in order to have shortened URLs of that form in tweets, where the domain name matters less since people would just be clicking a link. I really like the concept of the name showing up instead of bit.ly in retweets, but then that might lead people who hear about Optimizely on twitter to be even more confused if they try to go to optimize.ly. I wasn't aware of this kind of setup with bit.ly; is this a common issue since the pro price point is so high?