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A/B Test With Short Links: One Link per Variant
How to A/B test links: one short link per variant, a fair split, a sample size worked out in advance, and a significance test you can run in Python or JavaScript.
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Find Your Best Time to Post From Link Click Data
The big best-time studies measure other people's engagement and disagree with each other. Your own links' click times show the best time to post for your audience.
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Bot Clicks and Link Previews: Why Your Click Count Is High
Link previews, email security scanners and crawlers follow short links, and each can count as a click. How each works, how to spot it, and how to subtract it.
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GA4 Unassigned Traffic From UTMs: Causes and Fixes
When GA4 files UTM-tagged traffic as Unassigned, one of your values matched none of its channel rules. How to find which, fix the links, and regroup the data you already have.
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Instagram Link Tracking: Bio, Stories, DMs, Ads and QR
Track every Instagram link: five bio slots, Story stickers, DMs, ads, creators and print. Plus how to target an Instagram campaign, when to post, why GA4 calls Instagram traffic Direct, and a campaign checklist.
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Instagram Story Link Sticker Clicks: How to Track Them
Track Instagram Story link sticker clicks with one short link per frame: taps versus visits, the first 24 hours by hour, Highlights, expiry and password links for Close Friends.
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LinkedIn Post Link Tracking: Comments and Employee Shares
One short link per place a link appears on LinkedIn: the post, the first comment, each colleague's share. How to set it up, test body vs comment, and tag it for GA4.
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QR Code Size for Print: Minimum Size, Quiet Zone, Checklist
As a rule of thumb, print a QR code at least 2 cm wide, and about a tenth of the distance people will scan it from. The worked maths from URL length to module size, the quiet zone, and a checklist for the printer.
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Custom Short Link Slugs: Naming Rules That Work in Print
What makes a good custom short link: the seven rules, SendURL's exact slug rules, why case matters, which characters to avoid, and naming patterns with examples for launches, sales, podcasts, events and print.
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Social Media Link Tracking: One Link per Placement
Social media link tracking that holds up: where each network allows a clickable link, one short link per placement, UTM values GA4 files correctly, and an ungated campaign sheet with code to create every link.
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How to Track TikTok Bio Link Clicks and Find the Video
Put a short link in your TikTok profile, then line its click times up with your posts to see which video sent people to your site. UTM values and a script included.
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How to Track Link Clicks (With or Without Google Analytics)
Count clicks on any link you share, on your site or off it: which method sees what, what a click record contains, and how to pull the numbers out with code.
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How to Track QR Code Scans (and Tell Them From Clicks)
A QR code can't count anything by itself. Point it at a short link that logs every visit, give each placement its own code, and read scans apart from taps on the same link.
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URL Shortener API in Python: Create Links, Export Clicks
Shorten URLs from Python and JavaScript with the SendURL REST API: create links, bulk-create from a CSV without hitting rate limits, page through every click and export it to CSV, with the errors you need to handle.
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UTM Naming Convention: Rules, Allowed Values and a Template
A UTM naming convention is a written list of rules and allowed values that everyone tagging links follows. This one is built around GA4's channel rules: the values that work, the ones that break, and code to check them.
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UTM Parameters: GA4 Rules, 25 Examples and Templates
UTM parameters are tags on the end of a URL that tell Google Analytics 4 where a visit came from. GA4 reads nine of them and files each visit into a channel by fixed rules; 25 tagged links below land where you expect.
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Track Link Clicks in WhatsApp and SMS Messages
WhatsApp and text messages hide where a click came from. One short link per group, broadcast or list fixes that. Previews, SMS length, and the UTM values GA4 files right.
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Can You See Who Clicked Your Link? What Click Data Shows
A short link can't name who clicked. What a click log does show, how to estimate the people behind a link, and the cases people ask about most.
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Change Where a Short Link Points Without Changing the Link
On Pro and above, update a SendURL short link's destination in the console or the API. The slug, QR code and clicks stay, so printed codes keep working.
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Disable a Short Link Without Deleting It
Switch a SendURL link off and it shows a not-found page until you switch it back on. Its slug, QR code and click history are kept.
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How to Shorten a URL for Free: Web, Phone and API
Paste the URL, choose Shorten, copy the link. Step-by-step for the web, iPhone and Android, a custom slug, the command line, and links with UTM parameters.
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How URL Shorteners Work: 301 vs 302, 404 vs 410
A short link is a stored code plus an HTTP redirect. The whole path of a tap, with real responses from snu.to: the slug lookup, the cache, why it's a 302 and not a 301, when the click is written, and what 404 and 410 mean.
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Password Protect a Link: How Protected Short Links Work
Add a password to a SendURL short link so visitors must type it before they're redirected. How it works, the rules, and what it doesn't protect.
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Where to Find a Link's QR Code and Download It as PNG or SVG
Every SendURL link has a QR code on its QR card in the console, with PNG and SVG downloads. Scans are counted apart from the link's other clicks.
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