Nick Explains:
There are plenty of options out there if you want to track how many times your QR code has been scanned. You can use a public URL shortener like http://goo.gl that provides you with metrics or you can run your own. If you chose to use a public URL shortener, the system is taken care of for you, which could be good, or bad. If your Google account password is lost or stolen, you may not be able to recover it… or if your account is locked out for any reason, it might take a long time and many headaches before you can get back in.
For many out there that have your own webservers, the clear and obvious choice is to run your own URL tracking system. The most robust and customizable option out there is also one of the easiest to install and run. Check out YOURLS to get you started. YOURLS has a plugin based architecture that allows you to easily add features that the base software is missing. For instance, if you want to make URL shortening and tracking easy to use on your WordPress blog, there is a WordPress plugin. More importantly, if you want to automatically create a QR code for each URL you create, just install the free QR code plugin. For a list of all of the known YOURLS plugins, head on over here. If you are uncomfortable around editing PHP configuration files, YOURLS is not for you. But, if you can follow directions, can understand basic PHP and know how to add users to MySQL with either command line or cpanel, its worth a shot to install your own URL shortener and tracker.
Peace,
Nick
The Screen shot below is of a 30 up mailing label sheet for a project we helped James Babb and friends with, Infiltration into the Occupy Philly effort (another example of what we can do nationwide… The Right gave us the TeaPartyExpress to play with and now The Left has provided us a Silver Platter heaping with young minds to be freed with the Occupy Wall Street/America/Planet big sister effort to the TeaParty).
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