Tracking Copy and Paste - Tynt

So I just added a new feature to this blog that I think is pretty interesting. It’s a company called Tynt and what they make is a snipit of code you paste in the body tags of your website and whenever someone copies a piece of text or a picture, they throw a tracking tag re-direct, bit.ly style, in when you paste it.

So for example I copied and pasted some text from a post I did about OK Go’s new video and this is what it looks like when I paste it:

OK GO’s new awesome video. Notice at the end the advertiser was State Farm. Pretty cool way of integrating an advertiser by Youtube.

Read more: http://mobtownlabs.com/post/422207939/image-by-mrmatt-via-flickr-ok-go-this-too-shall#ixzz0hYZoDODM
Under Creative Commons License: Attribution

So if you notice at the end of the link to my post they have a hash. They also pre-load in there a Creative Commons license or whatever other license you want to choose from their menu of options which is kind of cool for bloggers who do it for money (which I don’t so I chose the most liberal license).

Then you get a login and analytics kind of like bit.ly or google analytics of what text or images were copied and pasted and then the traffic that came in from it.

Anyway, I think it’s a pretty cool concept for the blogger/publisher to boost SEO as well as track what the most interesting quotes and images that they are putting in their content so they can work to make their content more and more interesting.

~~They have a bunch of premium services but I’m pretty happy with the straight free one so far.~~

Correction: The people from Tynt commented below. They are offering all of their premium services for free so feel free to give them a try!