Every feature, shown in under three minutes. Each video has chapters and a full transcript.
1:18Is Bitly free? Yes, there's a free plan, but it's smaller than most people remember. On the day this was recorded (1 October 2026) Bitly's own pricing page listed the free plan as 5 links and 2 QR codes a month, labelled "With ads". Here's what you get, what sits on the paid plans, and a free Bitly alternative for comparison.
1:36Canva has a QR code generator built in, and its QR codes are dynamic: you can change the link after printing. What Canva's free and Pro plans don't show is how many people scanned. Here's how to make a QR code in Canva and track the scans anyway, by putting a short link inside it.
1:25What does "link in bio" mean? Instagram doesn't make links in captions clickable, so creators point followers at the one place a link does work: the profile. Here's what link in bio means, how to add a link to your Instagram bio, and how to set it up once so you're not editing your profile every week.
1:31What is a vanity URL? It's a short, readable link you can say out loud, like yourbrand.com/sale, sitting in front of a long address nobody would ever type. Here's what vanity URLs are, where they're worth having, and how to create one free in about a minute, with examples.
2:01Need a link for a PDF? Upload it to Linkly and you get a short link and a QR code that open the document in any browser, with no app, no sign-in and no "request access" prompt. When the document changes, you replace the file and the link stays exactly the same, so every copy already printed, emailed or scheduled serves the new version. And because it's a Linkly link, every open is tracked: how many, when, where and on what device.
1:26Want a QR code for a Google Form? Here's how to make one in Linkly: copy the responder link, paste it in, and print the QR code on a sign. Nobody has to type a ninety character URL, and when next term's form is a new one you point the same QR code at it instead of reprinting.
1:17Want more Google reviews? Here's how to make a QR code for your Google review page in Linkly: copy the review link from your Business Profile, paste it in, and print the QR code on a table card or a receipt. Customers land straight on the star box, and you can see which spot actually gets scanned.
1:32Want a QR code that opens your location in Google Maps? Here's how to make one in Linkly: copy the place link out of Maps, paste it in, and print the QR code. Nobody types an address, and if the venue changes you point the same QR code somewhere else.
1:33Want a QR code for a PDF but the file has nowhere to live? Here's how to make one in Linkly with no website and no Drive link: drop the PDF in, Linkly hosts it, and the short link and QR code come back together. Print the QR code, and if the file changes later you swap it behind the same QR code instead of reprinting.
1:25Want a QR code that plays a video? Here's how to make one in Linkly: copy the video link, paste it in, and print the QR code on the box, the card or the manual. It plays on any phone, with no app to install, and you can swap the video later without reprinting anything.
1:28Want a QR code for your website? Here's how to make one in Linkly, free and without an app: paste your address in, style the QR code with your colours and logo, and print it. Every scan is counted, and you can point the same QR code at a different page whenever you like.
1:25Want one QR code that collects everyone's wedding photos? Here's how to make one in Linkly: create a shared album, paste its link in, and print the QR code on your table cards. Guests scan and add their photos straight to the album, and after the day you point the same QR code at the photographer's gallery.
3:38The Linkly node for n8n, start to finish: install the community node, connect with OAuth2 or an API key, run Create, Get Many, Update and Delete, wire the click trigger, and use the node as an AI agent tool.
1:53WhatsApp groups stop at 1,024 members. A WhatsApp rotator is one Linkly link that deals every click across two, three or twenty group invites by percentage, so nobody hits a full group. Built live, proved in the Destination report.
2:15How to create a vCard QR code in Linkly: pick the Contact card link type, fill in plain fields, and every scan opens a Save contact page. Dynamic, so you can edit your details after the code is printed, with every scan counted.
2:14Why social in-app browsers strand shoppers on a logged-out web page, how Linkly's Open in app interstitial hands the tap to the Amazon app with the affiliate tag intact, and the store fallback when the app isn't installed.
1:46Need a QR code for every product, table, or poster? Here's how to create QR codes in bulk: paste a spreadsheet of URLs into Linkly, then export every QR code as PNG or SVG in a single zip. Every code is a dynamic QR code: change where it points after printing, and see every scan.
1:06Mailto link anatomy (address, subject, body, CC), a free generator that builds one as you type, and a short, trackable Linkly version with the Email link type.
1:00Four rules for scannable styled codes, then a real Linkly QR styled live: brand color, dots, rounded tinted eyes, a logo pulled from the destination's favicon, and a print-ready PNG download.
2:03The 62-symbol alphabet, link #1,788,350,705 becoming 1x1jiD, why base62 is the URL-safe sweet spot, and how Linkly uses base62 codes on linkly.link with random endings on customer domains.
1:01A Linkly short link that shuts itself off: a cut-off date and time, an optional click limit, and an expiry destination so latecomers land on an 'offer ended' page instead of a dead link.
0:58Put a password on any destination URL with Linkly: build the locked link, see the password gate visitors hit, and watch the right phrase go straight through to the real page.
0:57wa.me link anatomy, a free generator that does the encoding, and a short, trackable Linkly version with a QR code — plus the sms: variant for texters.
1:12A Linkly short link that reads the visitor's country on every click: UK visitors to the UK page, US visitors to the US page, everyone else to the default — proven with a live click and tracked by country.
1:26One short link that decides per click: route by the visitor's country, their device, or split traffic between two versions — and repoint the rules any time without the link changing.
1:32301 or 302? One is a permanent move that transfers your rankings and gets cached by browsers — sometimes forever. The other is temporary: nothing transfers, nothing is memorized, and every visit checks fresh. This video explains both in plain English, shows how to check any link's redirect with a free tool, and why short links deliberately answer with a 302.
1:36A Linkly short link that reads the device on every click: App Store for iOS, Play Store for Android, your website for desktops — proven live on an iPhone, and turned into a single QR code that routes every scan.
1:38A retargeting pixel is how ads "follow" people around the internet — and normally it only works on your own website. This video explains what a tracking pixel actually is, how retargeting audiences are built, and the trick most marketers miss: putting your Meta, TikTok, GA4 or LinkedIn pixel on a Linkly short link, so every click joins your audience — even clicks to pages you don't own, like press coverage, marketplace listings, or affiliate products.
2:20UTM parameters are how marketers know exactly which link brought every visitor. This video shows the whole loop: what utm_source, utm_medium and utm_campaign actually mean, how to build a tagged link without typos in Linkly's free UTM builder, how to hide the mess behind one short link that still delivers every tag to Google Analytics, and where the click shows up — instantly in Linkly, and filed under source / medium / campaign in GA4.
1:24Most QR tools charge a monthly subscription for dynamic QR codes. In Linkly, every QR code is dynamic and free — because it's just a short link wearing a costume. Watch a printed code change its destination without being reprinted, get styled with colours and a logo (it picks up your destination's icon automatically), and track every scan by country, device, and destination.
1:25"Rename a link" means three different things — and this video does all of them. One: the display text in a doc or an email — click the link, retype the text. Two: the address itself — you can't rename a page you don't own, but put a Linkly short link in front of it, name the ending anything you like, and put it on your own domain so nothing of the original address is left. Three: the preview — set a custom title and image for the card your link shows when it's shared.
1:23The redirect is the easy part — see what a modern URL shortener actually does, live in Linkly. Shorten an unreadable link, track every click by country and device, put links on your own domain, change a destination after sharing, and tour the extras — QR codes, link rotators, geo redirects, Google Sheets sync, and more.
1:10The biggest advantage of a shortened URL — you can change where it sends people without touching the link itself. Watch a live short link flip from Apple's iPhone page to the Mac page in one edit, while the printed link, the QR code, and the click history all stay exactly the same.
1:22Watch the full setup — connect a domain you already own, add one CNAME record (or use one-click Cloudflare setup), and every new link you create goes on your domain automatically. Free to attach.
1:26Turn an ugly affiliate URL into a clean branded link in under a minute. Paste the messy link, rename it, and put it on your own domain — people still land exactly where you promised, but the link now looks like you. No code, and nothing for the person clicking to notice.
2:04Make a tracking link in Linkly in about a minute — a short link that logs every click's city and region, phone vs desktop, and which channel sent it. No code on your website, and Linkly filters bot clicks out of your headline numbers by default.
2:29Build a link rotator in Linkly in about a minute — split one short link across multiple destination URLs, set the traffic percentages, then watch the Destination report show exactly where every click went. Ideal for A/B testing landing pages, rotating offers, or distributing WhatsApp group members.
1:27Use this as the first step to build custom audiences on Meta. You'll add this pixel ID to your link, which you can then use for building audiences across Instagram & Facebook.
