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The 5 best URL shorteners in 2025

If you’ve been online for more than a week, you know what long URLs look like: random letters, numbers, and punctuation marks that do little more than confuse users. Whether you’re a digital marketer...

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Link Tracking: The Ultimate Guide

Tracking links helps you to know if your content and marketing are working. Without knowing the engagement of URLs, you are effectively flying blind. When sharing a link on social media, email, or eve...

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Unlocking the Power of QR Codes

I feel like every day I see more and more QR codes being used to promote products and advertisements. Below are a few use cases of how you can use QR codes that you may not know about. Types of Data...

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How Does a URL Shortener Work?

A URL shortener is a tool that converts a long URL into a short one. The long URL and short URL are stored in a database. When the short URL is clicked on, the server looks up the long URL and redirec...

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Build Your Own URL Shortener

Building a URL shortener is a classic project that many software developers tackle, mainly because it starts as a simple API but can quickly become complex when you need to scale it. In fact, designin...

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How to Fix ERR_QUIC_PROTOCOL_ERROR

If you’ve stumbled upon the ERR_QUIC_PROTOCOL_ERROR while browsing the web, you’re not alone. This error can be frustrating, but understanding what and how to fix it can help you return to surfing the...

5 MIN READ

Top Chrome Extensions Every Marketer Needs

Browser extensions enhance how we navigate the web by helping us improve our writing, adding shortcuts to save time, or even removing annoying ads. Below is a list of extensions we find useful for mar...

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Firebase Dynamic Links Deprecation

Google has announced the deprecation of Firebase Dynamic Links (FDL), effective August 25, 2025. Introduced over seven years ago, FDL aimed to enhance URLs by dynamically altering link destinations ba...

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The End of Google URL Shortener

In 2018, Google announced the deprecation and transition of Google URL Shortener (goo.gl) to Firebase Dynamic Links (FDL). This decision was driven by the evolving ways people find online content and...

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