Tag: short URL

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,…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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.

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:

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?

You can shorten or explore any page with a single click!

You can clone any existing link, changing only the bits you need

How you apply for a free trial, and what happens after it expires

What are HTTP status codes, what they mean, and how to change the code used for redirects

How to add and configure your own domain for short links

How to create a link with a password and what is it useful for

When you shorten a URL, you get a QR code for its short version, for free

All about making smart links, link rules, and the rule editor

What is URL Explorer, what is it for, and how to use it

Do you know what “UTM” stands for?

What are short links, how they look like and how they work

If you have numerous social channels, you can share them with ease using your branded domain