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How To Effectively Use Keywords

Keywords are the phrases or separate words that reflect the topic of an article, website, or blog. Key combinations help users to find a necessary item by using keywords in search queries. Simultaneously, key phrases assist a website owner in promoting the source and making it visible in the Google search results. How to choose the right keyword 1. Before you upload a massive list of ten thousand requests, and start sorting them, find out who your visitors are. Learn their problems, demand

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Benefits of Using a Paid URL Shortener

Have you ever thought about why some URL shorteners are free, while the other ones are paid? Let’s consider why this happens. Nothing is free. The work costs money, and the hosting costs money. If a URL shortener is entirely free, it likely sells your clicks for $10 per million. If you need to shorten a link for a once-off occasion, a free URL shortener might be the perfect solution. Generic link shorteners serve a functional purpose — shortening URLs. However, they can’t deliver trust, securit

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How to Delete Short Links in Bulk

If you want to delete a pack of short links to save time on manual URL removal, Short.cm has a bulk delete feature. On the dashboard, you can select 150 rows per page by clicking “Select all.” That action deletes all links on the page. Also, you can choose only several links to remove. The advantages of using Short.cm for bulk deleting: 1. Bulk delete option is free (the only shortening service where it’s free). 2. You can remove both short links per page and just several URLs. 3. It takes

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Short.cm: Case-sensitive or Non-case-sensitive

The information below might be outdated - all links are now case-sensitive by default Short.cm is a flexible shortening service, as you can choose the case sensitivity yourself. Short.cm automatically creates non-case-sensitive links, but if you prefer case-sensitive links, simply turn on this function in the “Domain settings” tab. What is case sensitivity? Case sensitivity is a program’s ability to differentiate between uppercase and lowercase letters in URLs and search queries. Case se

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UTM-Tags: How to Use

For any online business, whether it’s a small company or an enterprise, it is essential to learn the conversion in the context of traffic sources. 100% of traffic doesn’t always work in full scale. There are cases when the overall conversion shows positive results: one advertising campaign produces a high conversion, and another pulls the rate down. How can you learn which of your ads bring customers to the site, and which ones slow growth? UTM tags help you get detailed information about each

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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. * Bulk delete/archive A long-awaited feature is available on Short.cm. Now you can delete and archive short links in bulk. Simply put a check on the needed links to remove. This feature helps to save time on manual deleting and archiving. On the dashboard you can select 150 rows per page by clicking "Select all" to delete or archive URLs. Do you like Short.cm updates? Try Now

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Manage the HTTP Status on Short.cm

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. Today, on the Short.cm blog, we’ll take a closer look at the basic 3xx status codes you manage on Short.cm. 3xx

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Short.cm for Bloggers

The business trend of blogging is spreading nowadays. A blogger is a person who manages a personal Internet account called a blog to share thoughts, interesting articles, or news. There are various fields in which bloggers can operate. It can be anything from professional business advice to simple fashion tutorials on how to use makeup. Bloggers manage different Internet sources. The most common ones are: * CMS (i.e., websites on WordPress), * Instagram accounts, and * YouTube channels. Wh

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3 Ways Short.cm Integrates with Slack

Slack is a service for collaborative work. It is usually used for corporate chatting and sharing company news. Thanks to Slack channels and integrations with other apps, you can receive essential data there. For example, you can be notified about new clicks, visits, or updates. Today, on the Short.cm blog, we'll onboard you to all of the ways Short.cm integrates with Slack. What we will show you is not only one or two versions of integration. Instead, it's 3 variants of the Short.cm and Slack i

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A Personal Brand: How to Promote

A personal brand includes all the characteristics that any enterprise possesses — a success story, broadcast values, earned audience trust, and more. In a personal branding, all that concern only a single person. Being a competent specialist is often not enough to create a successful startup or to build a career. That is why today, it is so essential to deal with reputation to get extra customers and sales. Who needs personal branding? The misconception is that personal brand is necessary only

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The Importance of Mobile Marketing

The lion's share of purchases on the Internet belongs to mobile users. This is due to mobile marketing, which plays a crucial role in promoting goods and services. Mobile marketing is more popular than desktop marketing, as the number of mobile users is increasing more and more. Mobile marketing is worth being used if you need to: * Increase brand loyalty and awareness. * Stimulate repeated purchases. * Increase customer retention. * Attract new clients. * Increase sales. Pay attention t

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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. * A/B Testing Whoo, amazing news! Now you can test which version of a web page performs better. When clicking a short link, 50% of users will be redirected to the original page, the other 50%, to the variation page. Just add the variation page and track the results. * HTTP Status Choose a rule for redirection according to your needs. Here are the four options to select from

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