Tag: short URL
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Blog
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One Year On: Meet Teams
Today is a big day for us: it’s been exactly one year since we announced our first publicly available beta version! A lot has happened since: we sustained scammer attacks, added rule engine,…
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Make clones not war
Have you already built your perfect short link, with a bunch of UTM parameters and a zillion of smart rules? Creating and properly configuring a short link can require quite an effort and be…
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Side that bar: navigation unified
As our world’s best link shortener once.to picks up in popularity, we’re observing an ever-increasing share of users accessing our web application using mobile devices: tablets and,…
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Sharing is caring
If you’re using a URL shortener, chances are you share your links a lot. The convenience of sharing is arguably the strongest motivation for shortening links. Today we introduce an extended set…
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Rules revisited
Our smart link rule editor introduced a while ago, though powerful, may seem unwieldy and overwhelming at first because of all possible criteria displayed at once. From now on, this will no longer be…
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Bookmarklets: short link in a click
We proudly announce our first browser integration: the so-called bookmarklets. A bookmarklet is a specially prepared bookmark for your browser that, when clicked, submits the page you’re…
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URL Explorer
A brand new tool has landed in once.to: the URL Explorer, a unique combination of power and simplicity that allows anyone to unveil what’s hidden behind the scenes of browsing! Even better, the…
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Use Them Man! UTM parameters and their friends
UTM parameters are ubiquitous on today’s Internet. You must have seen those awkward-looking tokens like utm_source and utm_medium in URLs you came across. They are so popular that they’ve…
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Maintaining the HTTP status quo
Short links have just got better! If you’ve been in the short-link business a while, you must have heard of things like permanent and temporary redirect. Those who are good with numbers can also…
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On the subject of QR codes
These days you find QR codes everywhere: in brochures and newspapers, on clothes and kitchenware, on walls and windows, and even on lawns. Some of them are neat and small and some huge and unwieldy.…
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Shall we start over again?
Sometimes you just need to undo all you’ve done and start over again, from scratch. From a blank slate. A tabula rasa. It may not always be possible (hardly ever is, actually), but at least we…
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Smart links and link rules
URL shortening will never be the same. Today we at once.to announce a massive feature that has just been rolled out: smart links! This new feature opens limitless possibilities of tailoring the…
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Password-protected links
Another feature landed in the once.to web application: short link passwords. By assigning a password to a link you can now limit the audience that can use it.
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Dashboard improvements for small screens
once.to dashboard has got a small facelift which makes it a bit easier to manage on a small screen, like a mobile phone. This is how the Dashboard looked like previously on a narrow screen:
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Ignoring bots in short link statistics
A new feature has landed in the once.to web application: an option for ignoring clicks from bots in link statistics. What is it useful for?
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One Year On: Meet Teams
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Knowledge Base
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Bookmarklets
You can shorten or explore any page with a single click!
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Cloning a link
You can clone any existing link, changing only the bits you need
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Free trial
How you apply for a free trial, and what happens after it expires
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HTTP status codes
What are HTTP status codes, what they mean, and how to change the code used for redirects
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Own domain setup
How to add and configure your own domain for short links
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Password-protected link
How to create a link with a password and what is it useful for
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QR codes
When you shorten a URL, you get a QR code for its short version, for free
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Smart link and link rules
All about making smart links, link rules, and the rule editor
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URL Explorer
What is URL Explorer, what is it for, and how to use it
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UTM parameters and UTM Builder
Do you know what “UTM” stands for?
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What is a short link
What are short links, how they look like and how they work
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Bookmarklets
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Use cases
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Short links for all your social accounts
If you have numerous social channels, you can share them with ease using your branded domain
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Short links for all your social accounts