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social media

Get the Brand Promotion from Twitter

Twitter is a social network you can take no notice of when promoting your service. A study shows that 30 out of 50 leading brands use Twitter. It is a widespread network in the USA, so you have a chance to engage many users. Twitter is a social channel where the content is born and then spread to other networks. You can use it to build a brand name or improve the reputation. It is useful for businesses of different sizes. via GIPHY [https://giphy.com/gifs/ever-flawless-meryl-M33UV4NDvkTHa]

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advice

5 Use Cases of Mobile Deep Linking

A problem that bothers mobile app developers is making links on the mobile platform as reliable as on the web. When clicking a link on the web, a page with the necessary content is opened. In the mobile world, things are not that simple. It is deep linking that redirects users from a URL to a specific screen of a mobile app. When using an ordinary link, a page with the needed content is opened in a mobile browser rather than the mobile app. Deep links allow you to perform better. Imagine that y

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DNS

How to Configure a Domain on Freenom

Freenom is just like any other domain registrar. The main difference is that most of the Freenom domains are free. Today we'll walk you through a guide on how to register and configure a domain on Freenom for further using on Short.cm. 1. Go to Freenom. 2. Search for a needed domain to check if it's available. 3. Select an available domain. 4. Click Checkout. 5. Choose "Use DNS" and add the records. Region Short.cm IP Americas, Asia and Africa 18.184.197.212 or 52.5

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email marketing

Stop Doing These Things in Email Marketing

Before sending an email to recipients, think about how it looks. Is it informative for users? Whether users open and read the email or not? Finally, will you open the email if you receive it? To answer YES to all of the questions, we'll walk you through the mistakes in email marketing. Making such mistakes in email marketing campaign may lead to low open rate and conversion. 1. Not using short branded links. Some URL shorteners provide customers with the generic domain to test a service. Howev

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news

What's New

Short.cm introduces some updates we've been working hard on. This release brings some features that improve our service. * New Onboarding/Registration Brand new registration process now has an intuitive user experience. We've implemented automatically 5 short testing links for a newly created account. Each link presents a feature to make it easier to understand how the service works. * Clicks Stream You can track the detailed data of each click thanks to the clicks stream feature.

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shortcm integrations

How to Automatically Create Short Links for WordPress

The WP-Short.cm Plugin allows you to shorten links for the WordPress pages and articles from the Wordpress admin panel. It's a time-saving feature as you don't need to copy a long link and shorten it on Short.cm manually. Installing WP-Short.cm on your WordPress website is a simple procedure with some minor specialties. Let's take a look at the instruction below. Wordpress.com allows adding plugins only on a business price plan. However, we can easily avoid restrictions by applying a trick. If

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advice

5 Tools for Improving Customer Experience

When you're thinking of improving customer experience, you need to use some additional tools that let you make correct decisions and determine weaknesses. Today, on the Short.cm blog, we'll walk you through five essential instruments to help you empower your customer experience. via GIPHY [https://giphy.com/gifs/reactionseditor-interesting-hmm-3oKIPnbKgN3bXeVpvy] 5 Tools for Improving Customer Experience Before diving into the topic, read the article about what customer experience is. [https:/

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shortening service

Missing Features on Short.cm? Make a Request

Have an awesome idea for Short.cm? Share it with us to have it sent to engineers. If you're missing a feature on Short.cm, make a request and track its implementation. Short.cm appreciates every customer, so we want our service to be customer-friendly for everybody. When you notice a feature you really need to make your work process more productive on Short.cm, just leave a request. The link for a public Short.cm board: https://feedback.short.cm/ What Makes a Good Feature Request Before leav

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advice

Bug Bounty Program: Get Rewards for Mistakes

The Bug Bounty Program is a reward payment program for detecting security problems in services and applications. Short.cm has launched a program to search for vulnerabilities and bugs. The program will help to make our service safer, better and more functional, as well as the participants pleased with rewards. Short.cm takes care of every customer. We are responsible for keeping personal information secure, so it is stored according to strict privacy guidelines and requirements. We believe tha

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short links

Do Short URLs Hurt SEO?

The URL shorteners are widely used nowadays for an advanced marketing strategy and automated tasks. The short links' importance is evident, especially once social networks started implementing their personal short domain for vanity links. However, most people are afraid of using short links, thinking that the website SEO will be hurt. On the Short.cm blog, we've briefly described how short links affect SEO and if there is a reason to worry. Do Short Links Affect SEO? Custom URL shorteners oper

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DNS

A Simple Guide on How DNS Works

Understanding what DNS is plays a crucial role when making some advanced actions other than just simple surfing. The Web knowledge will be helpful when configuring a domain for using it on Short.cm or a personal website. Today on the Short.cm blog we'll sort the DNS process out to make a domain configuration as simple as ABC. How DNS works Every Internet surfer starts his/her journey by opening a browser and tapping the destination address there. For example, we want to open Google, so we type

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news

What's New

Short.cm introduces updates over the last week. Learn about them below. * New Short.cm ChatBot Short.cm provides both chat and email support for all customers for free. To advance our service and make it customer-friendly, we've implemented online chatbot. This mechanism shows the relevant tutorials according to a search query. You just type an issue, and ChatBot offers some articles on how to resolve it. Now you don't need to search for the guides in our support manually, ChatBot sends

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