How to Create a Tracking Link (2026) — See Every Click's City, Device & Source
Make 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.
Transcript
The full spoken transcript, split by chapter.
- 0:00Every click, revealed
- Every click on this link — where from, what device, which page. If you share links anywhere, this is what you're currently not seeing.
- 0:11What a tracking link is (and your own domain)
- A tracking link is just a short link with a memory. You wrap the page you're sharing, share the short version instead, and every click gets logged on the way through. No code on the website. Nothing for the person clicking to notice — the link itself does the work. And it doesn't have to say linkly.link: connect your own domain, and every link you share carries your brand. People trust links they recognise.
- 0:37Build one in Linkly
- Right, let's make one. Paste in whatever you're sharing — and it's already done, honestly. Short link, page title, QR code. If it's for a campaign, open UTM tags: source, medium. Google Analytics will agree with Linkly now. That name is just for you; it's never shown publicly.
- 1:02Share it — looks normal
- That's the link you share. It looks normal and opens instantly. Nobody clicking it sees anything different. But back in Linkly...
- 1:18Read the report (hourly clicks, platforms, bots filtered)
- That number is human clicks — bots are already filtered out. City and region for every click, so you get to see where they landed. Platform tells you phones versus desktops. And referrer shows which channel did the work.
- 1:40Where tracking links work
- Anywhere a link goes, a tracking link goes: social bios, newsletters, ads, QR codes on real-world stuff. If it's clickable, it's measurable.
- 1:50Free plan & what's next
- Linkly's free plan does a hundred links and five hundred tracked clicks a month, no card. And once you're tracking clicks, the next trick is splitting them between two pages.
