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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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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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GDPR: Everything you need to know

GDPR – recently adopted legalization describing personal data security and how it must be regulated. It is related to European companies, but it will affect website owners and developers outside of Europe. It means that if your website gathers personal data from people in Europe (or if your code is used by sites that do), you will be under the GDPR. What is the GDPR? GDPR (The General Data Protection Regulation) is an EU law that went into effect starting on May 25, 2018. The goal of GDPR is to

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Link Cloaking

Short.cm provides “Link cloaking” feature to keep the original URL in privacy and safety. How does it work? Short.cm converts a short link to a long one, which helps a person read links and remember them more easily. After clicking on the short link, the system redirects users to the original URL, which they can see in the browser’s address bar. When you activate a link cloaking feature, the original URL is replaced in the address bar with the shortened one. For example, instead of this link,

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Short links tracking with Heap Analytics

The Heap tool is a mobile and web analytics with a smart approach to tracking. How does Heap work? Heap is based on a JavaScript library that you need to install on all website pages you want to track. The Heap app collects all actions taken on your site with some basic contextual information like page information, CSS selectors, and text on links or buttons. If you want to track additional information about the events, you are required to add custom code to your website using the Heap JavaScr

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Links with the same slugs: Why not?

The link slug is a unique part of the URL, which describes the page’s content. For example, in this article that part of the link is simply “same-slug”. Slugs help to increase the CTR, even though they are short. You just need to follow some essential rules. Detailed about clickable slugs: http://shortcm.xyz/slug-importance What happens if to create the identical slugs for two links? 1) Shortening services Shortening services forbid to create the same slugs for one domain. This is a necessary

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Introducing Short.cm for Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a free tool for tracking detailed website statistics. Moreover, GA offers analytics for mobile apps. It helps to determine the advantages and disadvantages of marketing projects. How does Google Analytics work? The operating principle lies in providing all website pages with JavaScript code. Google Analytics displays the code in the Admin panel. So copy it and paste into the website footer. After that, page views, traffic sources, and visitor data are collected automatically

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Short.cm and Slack integration

Slack is a platform which brings people together. With Slack app unite the team for setting common goals and sharing company news. Thanks to an API, Slack platform works with many services. Thus, connect Slack conversations with 1500 apps to streamline your work. Short.cm and Slack integration Short.cm is one of the apps Slack works with. Short.cm allows to create short links using your own domain. For example, "www.longlong.com/morecharacters" becomes "www.yourdomain.com/euh4". There are two

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Retargeting campaigns with Short.cm, AdRoll, and Segment

AdRoll is a retargeting platform. Retargeting is a process of showing ads to the visitors who have left your site. The advertisements display the products which visitors haven’t purchased. Retargeting platforms turn “window-shoppers” into buyers. How does AdRoll work? AdRoll provides with a JavaScript code, which you should add to your website footer. The retargeting code anonymously implements cookies in visitors’ browsers. Thus, cookies let monitor people who visit your site. After leaving th

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Tracking offline marketing campaigns

The online marketing has come out on top for the last years. Usually it is easier to track and to implement the information in the Internet than in the billboard. However, there are plenty of offline marketing ways which help to build a recognizable brand. Note: the successful brands combine the advantages of online and offline marketing. Such companies occupy users from both external and internal sides of the world. The main traditional marketing problem is that it can be difficult to check t

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