Posts by J. Shams

By J. Shams in URL Shortener May 18, 2026

Bitly has been cutting its free tier for years. In 2026, free users get 10 branded links per month, no retargeting pixels, no custom QR codes, and analytics locked behind a paywall. If you are shopping for a serious Bitly alternative, you are not...

By J. Shams in URL Shortener May 17, 2026

Your email open rate is a vanity metric. What actually matters is which links your subscribers click, how often, and what they do next. If you are using raw, untracked URLs in your campaigns, you are flying blind. A url shortener for email marketing...

By J. Shams in URL Shortener May 15, 2026

You run one paid ad campaign. Your audience spans the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia. But your landing page only exists in one version, with one currency, one phone number, and one offer. Every visitor who lands on the wrong page costs you money....

By J. Shams May 13, 2026

If you are building a product that generates links at scale, manually shortening URLs is not a workflow. You need a URL shortener API that handles authentication cleanly, returns predictable responses, and gives you full control over targeting,...

By J. Shams in Analytics & Tracking May 12, 2026

You're running cold traffic to a landing page. The visitor clicks your link, bounces before the page fully loads, and your Facebook Pixel never fires. They're gone, and you have no way to retarget them. This problem is exactly why attaching a...

By J. Shams in URL Shortener May 11, 2026

Long UTM URLs are killing your click-through rates. A link like utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=summer_launch&utm_content=story_v2 appended to your destination URL turns a clean post into a wall of text. And yet, if you...