<A href="http://www.weblogswork.com/">Alexander Muse</A>非常<A href="http://www.weblogswork.com/?p=280">困惑</A>：我的<A href="http://elfurl.com/">elfURL</A>比<A href="http://www.tinyurl.com/">TinyURL</A>优秀多了，为什么访问量始终上不去呢？<BR><BR>* elfURL should shrink giant URLs.<BR>* elfURL should provide statistics o­n the number of times the elfURL has been clicked.<BR>* elfURL should deliver those statistics via RSS.<BR>* elfURL should automatically create <A href="http://del.icio.us/">delicious</A> tags for the links.<BR>* elfURL should automatically create <A href="http://microformats.org/wiki/reltag">Rel-Tags</A> for the links as well.<BR><BR>elfURL的确比tinyURL强大，抛开delicious、rel-tag不说，statistics via rss就已经非常吸引人。在有些不能插入脚本的网页里，用elfURL来统计访问数是个非常简单又非常有效的方法。<A href="http://www.kdrmedia.com/blog/index.php/2005/08/02/talking-to-the-elves/">Grasshoppermind</A>认为，将elfURL放到邮件广告中，可以得知广告的具体点击数。这也是个好主意，不过有些不厚道