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Glass Analytics: Linkly's New Privacy-Focused Google Analytics Alternative
Discover Glass Analytics, Linkly's new privacy-first analytics platform. Get actionable insights without cookies, complex setups, or compliance worries. Try it free today! 🚀
Best Link Shortener of 2025: Features, Benefits, and How to Choose the Right One
Looking for the best link shortener of 2025? Discover the top features, benefits, and expert tips for choosing the right link shortener to enhance your marketing and tracking efforts.
Top Features to Look for in a Link Shortener Tool for Maximum Efficiency
Discover the top features to look for in a link shortener tool for maximum efficiency. From custom domains and click tracking to QR codes and retargeting, find the best solution for your needs.
Best Free Alternatives to Google URL Shortener: A Complete 2025 Guide
Looking for the best free alternatives to Google URL Shortener in 2025? Explore top link-shortening tools with advanced tracking, custom domains, and powerful integrations.
How to Shorten a Link in Seconds: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
Learn how to shorten a link in seconds with this easy step-by-step guide. Discover the benefits of link shortening, tracking, and customization using Linkly.
What Is a Short Link Generator? How It Works and Why You Need One
A short link generator helps you create compact, branded URLs that improve click-through rates and track performance. Learn how it works and why you need one.
How a Link Shortener Can Boost Your Marketing & Social Media Strategy
Boost your marketing success with a link shortener! Discover how shortened URLs improve branding, tracking, and engagement across social media and email campaigns. Try Linkly today!
How to Shorten Links in Seconds: Easy Steps for Social Media, Emails, and More
Discover the best link shortener to quickly create concise, trackable URLs for social media, emails, and more. Learn how to enhance your online presence with Linkly.
Fathom Analytics Review - A Google Analytics Alternative
A personal review of Linkly's use of Fathom Analytics, the opinionated, privacy-first analytics platform
Static vs Dynamic QR Codes: Know the Differences & Benefits
New to the world of QR codes? Learn more about Static vs Dynamic QR Codes.
URL Blacklist
URL blacklisting: Understand what a URL blacklist is and learn effective strategies to prevent your website from being blacklisted.
Rebrandly Alternative (2024)
Linkly is click tracking software that helps marketers and affiliates reach their goals. Linkly offers custom short URLs and vanity URLs with your branding. Free plan available.
Clickmeter Alternative (2024 review)
Linkly is click tracking software that helps marketers and affiliates reach their goals.
5 Click Tracking Software Products Reviewed (2024)
Click tracking is an essential component of any digital marketing campaign. Here’s a comprehensive list of click trackers suitable for business use. Voluum From the team at Zeropark, this tool is aimed at affiliate marketers buying wholesale traffic from ad networks. Paid only.
Using Elixir Phoenix in a Commercial SaaS Project
Linkly is written in Elixir. I had always wanted exposure to the Erlang ecosystem, and Elixir is an easy route. I won’t cover the benefits of BEAM or Erlang directly here, as that’s been written about elsewhere. Instead, I’ll focus on the practicalities of using Elixir Phoenix for a real project.
How accurate is IP Geolocation?
IP geotargeting & geolocation is done by looking up an IP address in a database. Consequently, the accuracy really depends upon the accuracy and freshness of the database used.
How to track clicks on a link
Link tracking is the process of tracking who and how many people clicked on a link. There are two types of link tracking - outbound link tracking (of which Linkly is the leader), and internal link tracking (for which we recommend either Linkly or Google Analytics). How to track clicks on a link
List of Link Rotators (Free & Paid)
Linkly gathers the best free and paid link rotators from around the web.
Click Fraud - How to Detect & Prevent (in 2024)
Click fraud detection and protection from Linkly. Free plan for 100 clicks per month.
List of Custom URL Shorteners
Custom URL shorteners allow you to create branded short-URLs, using your own domain. These 'vanity URLs' have much higher click-thru rates and than normal URLs.
Linkly vs Bitly Enterprise
Linkly and Bitly Enterprise are often used interchangeably. So much so, in fact, that Linkly has a Bitly Import feature. Both Linkly and Bitly have similar starting prices, although they widely differ in focus. Obviously, as this is a Linkly blog post, it’s difficult to be objective, however
Bitly Enterprise Pricing (2024)
Bitly is perhaps the world’s most well known free URL shortener. The challenge comes when trying to use it for business purposes. Bitly has an entry level plan at $29 per month , but after that, it’s Bitly Enterprise pricing only. In every case, Bitly’s enterprise offering is substantially more
Linkly - A PixelMe Alternative
Linkly is a free alternative to PixelMe , the retargeting pixel custom link shortener, and offers a number of additional features to boot. Linkly vs PixelMe: Retargeting Pixels If you’re trying to build custom audiences with Facebook Pixel or Twitter Audience Tags , you’ll want to add those tr
Some Linkly Alternatives
On Capterra: Linkly vs RocketLink (and in the UK ) Linkly vs Clickmeter, PixelMe & RocketLink
Rebrandly Alternative
Linkly is an alternative custom URL shortener to Rebrandly. Use your domain to create branded short-URLs, with retargeting, smart redirects, conversion tracking and more.
ClickMeter Alternative
Linkly & ClickMeter are both platforms for creating tracking links. Here's a feature showdown to see which is better.
ClickMagick Alternative
Linkly is modern click tracking software. Linkly is free for 2000 clicks per month.
Bitly Alternative
Linkly is a bitly alterantive with more features, and is targeted at professional marketers. Both of them are custom URL shorteners. Features common to Bitly & Linkly Both allow you to shorten long URLs, track clicks, and create visual reports. Both allow you to use a custom domain to
RocketLink Alternative
Linkly is an alternative to RocketLink.io. Try Linkly free for 2000 clicks per month with all features included.
Click tracking software compared
In this article, we compare click tracking software . What is click tracking software? Click tracking software is software used to track clicks on link, normally used by affiliate marketers to determine the performance of their marketing. Types of Click Tracking Software Generally, there are
How Psychometric Success increased its revenues with Linkly
Psychometric Success, the leading numerical and verbal reasoning practice aptitude test site, increased its revenues by using Linkly's vanity URLs and Linkify text features.
How URL shorteners work
URL shortening , sometimes called link shortening , is used to shorten long and nasty URLs into something more readable and shareable. At its very essence, an URL shortener is a link that 301 redirects into a new destination. Algorithms for Link Shortening When you create a short-link with any l
GDPR, CCPA & Retargeting Pixels
Privacy laws are a new and important part of the way we think about personal information online in years to come, especially as marketers. The purpose of these laws is to protect individual’s privacy and give clear guidelines and responsibilities for how companies process and protect sensitive
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6 Best URL Shorteners and How to Choose the Right One [2025 Review]
What are URL shorteners? A URL shortener, as the name suggests, is a tool that shortens long and complicated links for websites without changes to the underlying address. They are simple, quick, and easy to use. A basic URL shortener will take your link and replace it with another domai
How WikiJob.co.uk Uses Linkly to Increase Revenues
WikiJob produces global content for those interested in jobs and careers, aptitude tests , personal finance, trading , and products and wellness. The site offers well-researched free content to help millions of visitors succeed and make the right choices. WikiJob has a small but busy team of c
How TestHQ.com uses Linkly to Improve Conversion Rates
TestHQ.com is a popular practice aptitude test provider, which sells courses and assessments to help job seekers pass their interview assessments. TestHQ.com is built using Kajabi, an off the shelf e-learning solution. While Kajabi supports multiple currencies, it isn’t able to direct users to the
Link Rotators - Everything you need to know (2024)
Link rotators - how to use, A/B testing, conversion tracking and more. Linkly has a free link rotator for 2000 clicks per month.
What is Base 62?
Base 62 is the algorithm used by most URL shorteners to generate custom short links. To answer how it works, the first question we need to answer is: what are bases? What is a base? When counting up, the base is the number of numbers that you count before add another digit. We all get taught
What is a Bitly Link?
What are Bitly Links? Bitly is the first large link shortener, originally designed to help Twitter users share links and keep tweets under the 140 character limit. They’re characterised by the form:
List of SaaS Directories (2024)
This is our updated list of the best SaaS directories to submit your app to.
