Links
The link list, creating, editing, pausing and deleting links.
A link is an address on your domain that you put in your ads, for example example.com/promo. People who open it go to the destination URL; bots go wherever the template sends them.
Link list
- Target — the destination URL; Clicks — all visits, with people and bots next to it.
- The Active and Inactive segments separate working links from paused ones; Filters — by domain, template, tags, click count and creation date.
- In each row: pause, link statistics, edit, and a menu with the other actions.
- Select several links to change them at once — see bulk actions.
Creating links
Click Create Link, choose a template and domains — the destination URL, bot URL and preview are filled in from the template, and you can change them. You can also create links from a template right after saving it, see step 3.
How many links you get
You get as many links as there are destination URLs (one in All to one address mode), multiplied by Number of copies. The number of domains does not change this: 1 URL on 10 domains gives one link. Links are assigned to domains in turn.
To get one link on each domain, click Make one for each of the N domains. The maximum is 500 copies. The line under the fields shows the result before you create anything.
Slug
By default, the slug after / is random. Choose Custom to set your own — up to 60 characters, no spaces and no / ? # % \ characters. With a custom slug you can make only one copy. Just / creates a link without a slug: it opens at the domain's own address.
If the slug is already taken on the domain, the dashboard offers to generate another one.
Domain check
Before creating links, the dashboard checks that each domain responds through your server and is not blocked. A domain that fails the check is skipped, and its links go to the other domains. The dashboard shows the reasons in the result window — for example, No response received if the domain's DNS does not point to the server.
Past creation runs, including skipped domains, open from the Creation History button in the link list.
Editing
The pencil icon in a link's row opens its settings. You can change the destination URL, bot URL, preview, streams, domain, slug and template. The redirect method and bot filter are set in the template and are the same for all its links. Changes take effect immediately.
Domain and slug
The link moves to another domain with the same slug. If the slug is already taken on the new domain, the dashboard will not let you save.
Changing the template
The link starts using the new template's redirect method, filter and bot action. The destination URL and streams stay the same. To take them from the new template, use Apply Template in bulk actions.
Link streams
Streams on the link page change only this link. The from template mark means the link has no streams of its own, see link streams.
Pausing and deleting
Pause and lifetime
You can pause a link manually or give it a lifetime — with Auto-disable Links in the template or in bulk actions. The Resume button turns the link back on.
Auto-delete
In Settings → General you can turn on auto-delete: links and domains older than the set number of days will be moved to the trash.
Deletion and clicks
A deleted link goes to the trash and stays there for 10 days together with its clicks. You can restore it, and its statistics remain. After 10 days, or when deleted from the trash, the link and its clicks are deleted permanently.
Delete All Links and Reset Statistics erase clicks immediately and permanently. To keep the statistics, pause links or delete them the usual way.