How to Change a Link's Destination — Without Changing the Link
The 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.
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The full spoken transcript, split by chapter.
- 0:00The link on the poster
- This is the link from the poster in our shop window: demo.linkly.so/spring-sale. Right now it sends everyone to Apple's iPhone page. But say the promotion moves on, and that page has to change.
- 0:10A short link is a pointer
- You don't reprint a thing, because a short link is just a pointer. The printed link stays the same forever; you just change where it sends people.
- 0:20Change the destination live
- Watch: I open the link, point it at the Mac page instead, and save. That's the whole edit, done in about ten seconds. Here's that same link again, unchanged, exactly as it was printed.
- 0:30Proof: click the same link
- Click it now, and it lands on Apple's Mac page. Nobody who saved the old link notices a thing. And your click history carries straight on — one link, one report.
- 0:40Old vs new in one report
- The Destination tab even splits it out: twenty clicks went to the iPhone page, and ten to the Mac page since the switch. So put anything you'll reuse on a short link — a poster, an email signature, a bio link, an ad you can't edit once it's live.
- 0:50Get started free
- Point it once, re-point it forever. It's the same trick that makes printed QR codes editable. Linkly is free to start.
