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A short link is a compact address that forwards to your long URL and counts every click. Create one while you write a post, then watch its clicks under Short URLs.

You need: a post open in the composer.

  1. In the composer, click Shorten URL (the link button) under the text box.
  2. Paste your long link in URL to shorten and click Shorten.
  3. Under Your short URL is:, click Copy to clipboard.
  4. Paste the short link in your post text. Click Shorten another for the next link, or Close the dialog.

See how many people clicked

  1. In the sidebar, click Content → Short URLs (Short URLs). Every short link you created is listed with the title and description of the page it points to.
  2. Use Copy URL to copy a link again, or View Details to open it.

The details page shows:

  • Short URL and Original URL
  • Link Title, Link Description and Link Image, taken from the original page
  • All-Time Click Count and All-Time Unique Click Count
  • Short URL Statistics: charts of Clicks Statistics and Unique Clicks Statistics. Pick a period with the from and to dates.

On the details page, click Edit URL. Change the Original URL (and the HTML Title if you want), then click Update. The short link now forwards to the new address, including in posts already published.

On the Short URLs page, choose Delete on the link and confirm with Yes.

To clean up automatically, open Team, expand Data retention settings and turn on Auto cleanup short URLs after post deletion. When you delete a post, its short links are deleted too, unless another post still uses them.

UTM parameters set in the composer's Advanced settings, or in a channel's default UTM settings, are added to every link in the post text when it publishes, short links included. To make sure the tags reach your website, add them to the long URL before you shorten it, for example https://example.com/sale?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=spring. See Create a post.

On the Pro and Agency plans (lifetime deals included), short links can use a domain of yours, such as go.example.com.

  1. At your domain provider, create a CNAME record for the subdomain you want, pointing to rpst.cc.
  2. In Robopost, open Team and expand Short URL Settings.
  3. Click Setup short URL domain.
  4. In Request Short URL Domain, enter the subdomain (for example go.example.com) and click Confirm.

Robopost checks the CNAME record first. If it can't find it, you see a message that it couldn't verify your short URL domain: DNS changes can take a few hours to spread, so wait and try again. Once the request is accepted, Short URL Settings shows Short URL domain name requested. Please allow 24H to take effect. When the domain is active, it's listed as Your Short URL Domain.

Note

Use a subdomain you don't use for anything else. All short links created after the domain is active use it.

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