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Insights on link management, marketing analytics, and the craft of growth — written by the team behind Short.io.

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How to Download a Few Short.cm Links

If you want to download just a couple of links so they can be distributed to others, use the Short.cm link download instead of exporting a massive pack of links. Why would You Need to Export Several Links? * Say you’re a social media marketer who manages and promotes a brand’s social accounts. Your chief requires a report to check how frequently users click the links. Instead of exporting all the URLs, you can download some of them for the report. * When using Short.cm tags for URLs,

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Short.cm Tools to Optimize and Test your Website

Short URLs are widely spread on the Internet: we see them on social media, emails, offline marketing, and on the websites. The purpose of applying short links is based on improving destination performance. Using short URLs on the website is caused by testing the recent site changes. It could be a new color or position of a call-to-action button, the length of a title, or the link destinations. To conclude whether the changes are worth being implemented, the auxiliary tools are needed. In this

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How Do I Shorten a Website Link?

Each page on the Internet has a unique address. We even do not pay attention to it when surfing the Internet. However, some cases imply using a URL. After copying and pasting a link address, users might face particular difficulties. We’ll take a closer look at what kind of problems these are and why it’s becoming necessary to shorten the links. Why Do I Need to Shorten Links? Have you ever noticed that some links on favorite social media posts are too long, and others are too short? Have you e

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Why Domain Activation Might Take so Long

If you’re going to buy a domain and use it for shortening, you’ll have to accept the fact that domain activation can be a long process. If you’re wondering why domain activation takes so long, remember that domain names have different registration requirements. Every domain has a unique name and zone, so various procedures are required. Sometimes, it’s difficult to determine the exact amount of time needed for domain activation, but the generally accepted time frames are from 2 to 24 hours. Le

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How to Create Short Links for Twilio SMS

Sending bulk SMS is an effective way to communicate with customers via messaging. It is applied by media companies, enterprises, and consumer brands for a variety of purposes, such as entertainment, alerts, reminders, notifications, and marketing. For example, it could be an order status, a unique link to a personal account, a link for sale, or just a website URL with detailed information. Twilio [https://www.twilio.com/] is the SMS software that is widely used on the market. Due to its excell

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Customer Service Concept: Human Qualities or Technologies

Poor customer service may have a bad influence on customer satisfaction, retention, and the whole product. If the potential users leave a service unsatisfied, they won’t return. Each business makes customer service mistakes. Errors are an inevitable part of any activity. However, it’s essential to find the mistakes, admit them, and correct them. In this article, we’ll consider the main tips that need to be implemented to improve this process. The classic customer service strategy doesn’t seem

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Benefits of Branded Links for your Business

Every business, whether it’s small, medium, or enterprise, needs to implement branded links to the promotional strategy. So many people, so many minds. On the Short.cm blog, we’ll present some benefits of branded links so that you can appreciate their importance. Valid short branded links should match 2 main rules: 1) A link has a branded domain. * A short link with a generic domain hides the brand name and content you share. While using generic short links, you intensively promote ano

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How to Create a Perfect URL Slug

A URL slug is a part of the link that indicates the link direction. The perfect URL slug should give an idea of the content from the first sight. Such a rule helps not only to understand what’s hidden in the link but also to improve website SEO. Helpful rules to create a perfect URL slug * Add key queries to a slug By using keywords in a URL slug, you help search engines index and rank pages correctly. Users may guess at once the main idea of the web page. For example, say you are going

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5 Ways to Increase CTR

One of the main indicators of advertising quality on Google AdWords and social networks is CTR (click-through rate). CTR is a percentage of the clicks on the ad versus the number of people seen the ad on the Internet. It’s CTR that affects the click price in search advertising campaigns. The higher the CTR is, the cheaper the advertisement is. Note: CTR = the number of clicks/the number of impressions * 100%. For example, if you had 7 clicks and 100 impressions, then your CTR would be 7%. W

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What's New

Short.cm has introduced some updates over the last two weeks. Learn the details about the new releases below. Currently, we're working on the overwhelming update, which you'll see as soon as possible. So, briefly about our minor releases: * Spanish Translation Spanish Short.cm users, say "Woohoo"! Now the public pages contain the Spanish texts. Switch the language at the bottom of the site in the "Languages" section. Enjoy Spanish Translation Enjoy [https://short.cm/es] * Link Search

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How to Create a Team on Short.cm

Teamwork is a must-have for companies as it’s the best way to win sales. Creativity thrives when people work together. Collaborative work prevents stale viewpoints that often come out while working solo. Combining brainstorming ideas from each team member creates more effective selling solutions. Teamwork also helps an employer to delegate responsibilities to take up advanced tasks. Here’s how Short.cm lets you create teams for productive teamwork. Rules for Creating a Team * As a team creato

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The Difference Between 200, 301, 302, 304, 404 Status Codes

HTTP is a widespread data transfer protocol, initially intended for the transfer of documents that contain links, allowing you to organize the transition to other documents. The primary task of the HTTP protocol is the exchange of data between a user application accessing web resources (usually a web browser) and a web server. The World Wide Web operates thanks to the HTTP protocol. When a search engine or visitor requests a web server, a three-character HTTP code is returned to it, indicating

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