ShortLinks Pro lets you create shortened links with advanced features, tailored to your specific requirements.
Access to your WordPress admin area and navigate to ShortLinks Pro -> Manage Links menu. At the top of this view you can find the “Add New Link” button.
In addition, you have a shortcut to create links quickly on ShortLinks Pro -> Add New Link menu.
After add a new link, the initial edit screen looks like this:
The redirect type and link options will display the default configuration, which can be modified in Settings.
Link Settings
Basic link configuration where information such as the redirect type and the URL to which the link will redirect is specified.
Redirect Type: Allows you to define the redirect type for the new link.
Target URL: The URL your link redirects to.
UTM Builder: Allows you to add parameters to track campaign performance.
- Campaign: Used to identify specific campaigns, such as a promotion or event.
- Medium: Specifies the medium or channel used for the campaign, such as “email”.
- Source: Indicates the traffic source, such as a search engine, an email newsletter, or a social network.
- Term: Used to identify keywords.
- Content: Used to differentiate similar content within the same campaign, such as different versions of an ad.
ShortLink: How the generated link will be displayed.
Notes: You can add additional notes to your links with any information you need. Notes will not be displayed anywhere on the website.
Link Options
- No Follow: This will add the ‘nofollow’ and ‘noindex’ parameters to the HTTP response headers when enabled.
- Sponsored: Enabling this will add the ‘sponsored’ parameter to the HTTP response headers. Recommended if the link is an affiliate URL.
- Parameter Forwarding: This option will forward the parameters passed to the links.
- Tracking: Enables click tracking.
Category & Tags
This section allows you to organize your links into categories and tags that have been previously created from your WordPress admin area and navigate to ShortLinks Pro -> Categories menu and ShortLinks Pro -> Tags menu.
Links list view
Access to your WordPress admin area and navigate to ShortLinks Pro -> Manage Links menu to view the list of created links, where the information and characteristics of each link will be displayed.
Title: The title of the created link.
Target URL: Destination URL of the generated link.
Category: Category in which the link has been assigned.
Tags: Tags associated with the link.
Options: The link options are displayed: No Follow, Sponsored, Parameter Forwarding and Tracking. They will appear in green if enabled.
Clicks: Click counter for the number of times the link has been clicked. It will display both total clicks and unique clicks.
Shortlink: The link generated by ShortLinks Pro. It can be copied or redirected to the associated URL from this section.