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Custom Domain Names: How to Choose the Best One

Have you noticed that short links spread up everywhere these days? The majority of world companies use vanity links with their own 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 another brand instead of your own. Unless you use a branded domain to tell others about the content, you’re missing out on a massive branding opportunity. Remember to follow some useful tips while choosing a branded

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Reddit: What Is It & How To Use With Short.cm?

Reddit is a popular social network for sharing news. It has an extensive collection of forums, where people read and share content or comment on other communities’ posts. Reddit is full of interest-based communities. It is something similar to Twitter. Having a Reddit account, you can subscribe, vote, and comment on all your favorite pages. Users who create communities known as subreddits. Each subreddit is unique and has a set of rules. You will find it in the community sidebar. Once you surf

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What's New In Short.cm

Short.cm introduces some updates over the last two weeks. Learn the details about the new releases below. 1. The New Short.cm Web-Design! Short.cm team completely changed the color of the website. Now it contains a fresh and modern color palette that helps to absorb the information easily. All pages introduce the new illustrations, rounded shapes and tabs, as well as updated icons. The website is fully responsive with mobile devices, making it easy to navigate on a wide range of web browsers a

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Short.cm — The New Website Design Announcement

We are excited to introduce the launch of the Short.cm [https://short.cm/] newly designed website! Our goal is to provide our visitors with a simple way to discover more about the product and the solutions we can offer. We created a user-friendly browsing experience for our customers. The website is also fully responsive with mobile devices, making it easy to navigate on a wide range of web browsers and portable devices. The uncluttered design is easy to surf and use. Short.cm team completely

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How To Use Short.cm Chrome Extension

The Short.cm extension for Google Chrome lets shorten links being at the necessary web-page. By adding the Short.cm extension, you can access some key features: * Shorten links. The speed and ease are the most valuable things in the work process. Short.cm simplified the way of shortening links with Google Chrome extension. * Change a domain. It takes too much time to go to Short.cm dashboard for choosing a domain and then go back to the extension for shortening a link. Sh

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The List Of Short.cm Integrations

We made a full list of Short.cm integrations for your convenience. Now you can browse them and choose a necessary one. Direct Integrations Short.cm direct integrations are aimed to simplify the configuring process. You don't need any third-party service to integrate with analytical and retargeting tools. * Short.cm and & Facebook Pixel [https://blog.short.cm/facebook-pixel/] — Facebook shows the ads only for those people who've clicked a short branded link. Users who were earlier inter

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Why Is Image Optimization Important To Your Website

Images drive extra traffic to the website. They affect the behavioral factors and speed of loading pages. In the case of correct optimization, images improve your search engine rankings. Why do you need to optimize images? Search robots index not only text content but also image content. To help search engines correctly analyze the content of images, you need to conduct a comprehensive optimization. SEO-friendly images depend on some factors: image creation and internal optimization of image on

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What's New In Short.cm

Short.cm introduces some updates over the last two weeks. Learn the details about the new releases below. 1. Circular Progress Control. We show an indicator while your links are loading, so you will not be scared about your links vanished on the first page load. 2. QR Code API. Using API, you can create and read QR code graphics by yourself. We added API docs [https://short.cm/api#/reference/0/qr-code-api]on how you can generate QR codes automatically for your links. We use goqr.me [http://goq

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Black Friday Makreting Tips With Short.cm

It’s a Black Friday soon! Black Friday sales last for one day, however, marketing campaigns start one or even two weeks before Black Friday. In the run-up to Black Friday, companies actively promote discount products. Many ads with Black Friday headlines are spread on the Internet to attract people. It is social networks, websites, emails, and SMS, which are usually used to promote discount links. The common mistake is to use long links in promotional ads, posts or emails. Short links, especia

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How To Track Source Traffic Effectively

Сheck and analyze site traffic with UTM tags. They allow you to find out which social network post, email marketing campaign, or advertisement campaign brought the most benefits. Data from UTM tagged links are sent to analytical services, such as Google Analytics. In Google Analytics, you will find statistics reports with all the necessary information: where and how people got to your site. Note: UTM tags are used to track external traffic. Every time a tagged link is clicked, Google records t

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Direct Integration: Short.cm & AdRoll

AdRoll is a retargeting platform. It contains a piece of code, which you paste to your website to measure and customize the audience for the advertising campaign. To connect AdRoll to Short.cm, you don’t need to be a developer or know all about codes. The only thing you need to do is to input AdRoll Pixel IDs to Short.cm settings. Short.cm and AdRoll create the additional action to optimize audience for showing the advertising campaign. Integrating with Short.cm, AdRoll shows ads to those visi

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Ways To Increase CTR With Short Links

CTR is a ratio of users who viewed a link to users who clicked it. CTR reflects the interest of users in your articles. The more clicks a link has, the more interesting the content is for users. In addition to increased traffic, Google often encourages websites with a higher ranking. You may get CTR through some channels: social network posts, email marketing campaigns, paid advertising campaigns. Wherever you add a link, you need to convince users to click it. Short.cm specializes in link opti

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