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Branded Domain VS Generic Domain | Short.cm Shortener

Short.cm provides users both with a free generic domain “something.shortcm.li” and short branded domains. However, why is it better for your brand to use a separate custom domain? 1. Brand promotion. A short link with a generic domain hides the brand name and content you share. While using generic short links, you intensively promote other brands 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. 2. Brand

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Emailing

A successful email marketing campaign has an enormous impact on brand promotion. Examine the advantages and disadvantages of this advertising way, and then conclude whether email marketing is worth using or not. Advantages of email marketing. 1. Brand recognition. Constant email marketing results in brand awareness. It helps customers remember your brand and, if the information is relevant to them, share it, thereby promoting your brand. However, don’t spam users; otherwise, marketing emails co

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WHOIS Data | Short.cm

WHOIS provides information about domains, which are stored in the database on the server owned by the registrar. With WHOIS, you can find out the domain owner’s name, address, contact e-mail, and phone number, as well as contact information for administrative and technical issues. Why do you need WHOIS data? * To understand if a particular domain is available or not. * To contact the resource administrators hosted on the domain. * To study the sites of competitors and form a personal tactic

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How To Create a Successful Content | Short.cm

Many factors can influence a social media marketing campaign; therefore, you need to learn some core rules for a successful content building. 1. Update your content regularly. Permanent content updating raises the trust in search engines towards a resource. The search robots will visit your site more often. Therefore, new posts/articles will be indexed more frequently, and as a result, they will get first search engine positions faster. Allocate articles for equal periods (for example, one art

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Link Import From Other Link Shorteners | Short.cm Tutorial

Most customers appreciate Short.cm's ability to import links from other link shorteners. Why do you need to import links? You might need to import links, for example, as you want to change the URL shortener. In case your current link shortener is too expensive or has inadequate number of features or too slow support, the best choice for that is to transfer short links from one shortening service to Short.cm. You can easily do that without losing the original URLs and associated data. To start

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SSL Certificate: What Is It, and Where To Buy?

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a security level for protecting transmitted information between a server and a user’s browser. While using SSL, all private data is encrypted and can be decrypted only with a unique key. To use SSL protection, you need to install an SSL certificate on your website. An SSL certificate helps users confidently enter private information like account login data, or credit card numbers on your website. SSL secures data from third-party services as well as Internet hacke

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Filtering Statistics by Dates | Short.cm Tutorial

Short.cm shortening service provides the click-through data for each separate link and the domain on the whole. Every time somebody clicks on the short link, we get that data and display it on the statistics. Short.cm has updated the date filtering so that you can now manage it from the left side of the report. You are offered a choice on a particular period within to check the click rating. The pre-built filter ranges (yesterday, last seven days, last week (from Monday till Sunday, this month

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Short.cm application for macOS | URL Shortener

Short.cm has developed an application to shorten links via not only iOS but also macOS. Basic idea Shorten URL with Short.cm's Mac app is a service that allows you to manage short links on your own domain and share screenshots. It works from the service menu on your Mac. Short.cm takes a long web URL and converts it to a short one. After opening a Mac menu's Link tab, you merely have to press the “Shorten link from the clipboard” button, and then the pop-up window for customizing the link will

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Why do you need Buffer?

Attractive website content is only half of what makes successful engagement. To promote your web product, you need to share content on the relevant social networks. This core step will help increase visits and attract more traffic to your website or blog. Of course, you want to publish your posts on social media each time new content appears on your site. However, it is quite challenging to manage all posts as the publishing time depends on the social network. For this purpose, many auto-postin

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What is Short.cm?

Short.cm is a shortening service, which converts a long link to a short and attractive one. Short.cm is a must-use tool for any social media manager. It helps to shorten URLs to increase link trustworthiness. At first sight, clients should understand where the link redirects them. Even when creating a well-made image and a headline, you may lose the clicks because of the URL. It’s a psychological factor, which plays a crucial role. Facing a cute thing both you and me will have a desire to touch

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Short.cm and Zapier Google Extension: How to use

Doing tasks manually is annoying. You will agree with that while using Short.cm features frequently. Even if you can use the Short.cm API code to set features for continuous usage, this method is suitable only for those who are good at coding. Zapier Chrome Extension Zapier has a Google Chrome extension based on the Push application. The Push app helps at once to do tasks from the Chrome toolbar. Just connect your favorite app to Zapier's Push using the Chrome extension. Then the automated work

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QR Code Generation

You only have 6 seconds to make your brand attractive to a future customer when using printed media for marketing promotion. In case you lack the place for necessary information, implement a QR code to an offline marketing campaign that talks more about your brand. The importance of the QR Code QR codes now are advertised innovatively. With the help of smartphones, people usually scan the codes from the street banners, leaflets, and cards. After they have scanned a code, they are transferred to

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