Using Google Analytics is an amazing way of understanding your traffic and business. In this guide will teach you how to add Google Analytics to Zubbit.

Follow these Simple Steps

1) Go to the your Zubbit Dashboard and select Profile on top menu:

2) Enter your Google Analytic tracking code. Your tracking ID will start with UA- but more information can be found here:

3) Click Save Settings.

ALL YOU’RE LINKS ARE NOW BEING TRACKED

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Changing the destination of URL link is something that is quite often needed. It’s such a simple and obvious thing to do, yet most of the link shortening services don’t let you do it… Zubbit does!

Well let’s say you create a link and share it across multiple channels and then one day in the future you need to change the page your link points to? What do you do? Well, most services don’t let you change it so that leaves you in trouble.

But all is not lost as Zubbit will let you change the URL destination of any link you’ve created and shared and it will just take you seconds to change the destination and all those links you’ve shared automatically switch over to the new destination, just like magic.

Follow these Simple Steps

1) First select Links on the menu and then press edit on the link you want to alter. You can do this on both Call-to-Action Links and Retargeting Links:

2) Click Edit on the link you want to change the destination URL for:

3) Then all you need to do is change the value of the Destination URL field and click Save:

THE DESTINATION IS NOW CHANGED AND ANYONE CLICKING ON THOSE LINKS WILL GO TO THE NEW DESTINATION!

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You can easily use your own custom domain instead of the auto-generated one by simply adding it through the dashboard (please note this feature is not available on all subscriptions) and then updating a few DNS entries in your domain provider’s dashboard.

This will turn your Zubbit Links from https://zubb.it/1a2b3c to https://yourdomain.com/1a2b3c

You can use your root domain or if you already have a website hosted then a subdomain can be used as well.

For this example, we’re going to be using the following domain – zubbit.org

We will also set up a subdomain of subdomain.zubbit.org to show how you can do this if your root domain is already being used.

If you would like to use a custom domain, but don’t have one, you can buy one from here!.

Follow these Simple Steps

1) From the dashboard click Custom Domains:

2) Click the + Create Custom Domain button:

3) Enter an Alias to identify this Custom Domain, in this example, we have entered MyCustomDomain. Next, enter your Custom Domain Name, for this example, we have entered zubbit.org. If you are already using your root domain you can create a subdomain instead, for example, subdomain.zubbit.org:

4) Click Save:

5) You need to head on over to your domain’s provider.

Updaing Your Domains DNS to Point to zubb.it

For this example, we will use the domain provider Fasthosts.

6) Login to your Domain providers account.

7) Locate your domain name, in this example zubbit.org and then click on DNS:

8) Update the A record as shown below so that the A record points to IP Address 109.228.55.211:

Your domain should work almost immediately but in some cases, it can take up to 24 hours to work.

Using a Subdomain of Your Root Domain is Already Being Used

If your root domain is already being used (to point to your website for instance) then you can use a subdomain instead, in this example, we will use subdomain.zubbit.org.

9) Add a CNAME record of subdomain and point it to zubb.it as shown below:

Your domain should work almost immediately but in some cases, it can take up to 24 hours to work.

Using Your Custom Domain

10) When creating a new Zubbit Link all you need to do is pick the Customise tab and then select the custom domain you’ve set up. Easy!

11) This is Important! If you require your custom domain to use https:// you will be required to send us a ticket asking for your custom domain to be added to our SSL Certificate to avoid certificate errors within the browser.

YOU’RE CUSTOM DOMAIN SHOULD BE READY TO BE USED WITHIN 48 HOURS

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A custom short link is great for letting your readers know what they will be connecting too and gives confidence that it’s safe to click when they see it shared on social networks. It’s also a great way of you organising your Zubbit links.

When you shorten a link on Zubbit by default we generate you a short link which will look something like this:

zubb.it/abc123

On all our link types we offer the ability to change that auto-generated code with a shortlink of your own choosing.

Whether you are generating a short link or creating a call-to-action advert link or even an RSS Feed, we now have a tab called Customise where you can customise your link with either a custom domain or a custom short link.

All you need to do is drop in your custom shortlink and when you click save and generate your Zubbit Link it will now use your custom code:

Of course, you can leave this field blank and a shortlink will be automatically assigned by default.

You could put your product, service or offer name in there.

You get the idea!

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Open Graph Meta Tags are the tags that Social Media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and lots more use when you share a post on one of those platforms. They use the tags to pull in an image, the title, and a description from the web page being shared.

What we have done with Zubbit is to allow you to override the tags pulled in from the actual website you’ve shared via a Zubbit link, which lets you enhance those tags to better suit your message and intent in sharing that link:

Follow these Simple Steps

1) Click on the Tags link on a Call-to-Action Link you want to edit on your dashboard:

2) It’s now time to edit the Open Graph Meta Tags.

In this example below we are sharing a page describing the 85 best movies on Netflix and on it we want to advertise Domino Pizza via one of our Call-to-Action Adverts:

So if you look at the image below I’ve decided to spice it up a bit by added some pizza Emoji’s to the title tag and also pre-framed the viewer by adding the text “Sit back with some Pizza 🍕🍕🍕” to the description. So when they click on my link they are already thinking about Pizza:

3) Click Save and you are now ready to go.

As an example here is what my tags look like on this link once shared on Twitter:

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Zubbit is the No.1 site for creating short links with Call-to-Actions as we support more formats of Call-to-Actions than anyone else, from text, images, audio, video and content from social platforms.

Creating a Call-to-Action link is easy with Zubbit:

Watch the Video

or just Follow these Simple Steps

1) Click on the Links option on the dashboard menu:

2) That will then reveal a list of your existing links and the option to create more. From here just click on the + Create Call-to-Action Link button:

3) That will then initially display an empty form:

4) Next step is to select a Call-to-Action to use on this link. All you need to do is select from the list of existing reusable Call-to-Actions from the list. If you have not created a Call-to-Action yet then check out our section on the different types of Call-to-Actions you can create:

5) Next step is to select a Theme to use on this link. All you need to do is select from the list of existing reusable Themes from the list. You can either use one of Zubbit’s themes from our library of themes or you can create one of your own that fits your brand. so what the theme does is apply the look and feel to your Call-to-Action:

6) Grab the URL of the page you want to share:

7) You then copy and paste the URL into the destination URL field, and with the Call-to-Action and theme selected things are really shaping up. When you copy the URL in you can also see a preview of the page with your Call-to-Action on so you can see what it will look like:

8) The link is now good to go and you can press SAVE. Note you can also add retgareting pixels and also customise the link with a Custom Domain or Custom Shortlink. When you press SAVE this will then take you back to the list of links with your new link ready to use:

ALL DONE – YOU CAN NOW SHARE THIS LINK

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Zubbit is the No.1 site for creating short links with retargeting pixels as we support more retargeting platforms than nearly every other link shortening platform. On this page, we will tell you exactly how you can create shortened retargeting links.

At present we support Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, Quora, Google Adwords, Adroll, Citrol, Retargeter, Perfect Audience, Site Scout, Exact Drive, Centro and Choozle retargeting pixels, but if you have another one you want to use then let us know and we will look at adding in support for it fast!

Watch the Video

or Follow these Simple Steps

1) Click on the Menu dropdown and click Zubbit Links in your dashboard:

2) Click on the Create Retargeting Link button:

3) Click on the + Create Retargeting Link button to display the Create Retargeting Link dialog box:

4) Find the URL of the web link/website you want to shorten:

5) Copy and paste your URL into the Destination URL box:

6) Add your retargeting pixels to your Link:

All you need to do is click on the Retargeting tab and add the pixels you want to use from the list on the left and it then adds those pixels to be used on this link. To remove a pixel just click on the pixel on the right-hand side.

7) Customise your Retargeting Link:You can customise your retargeting link by either using a custom domain you’ve linked to zubbit or using a custom short link. Just click on the Customise tab and select from any custom domains you’ve added or enter the short link you’d rather use than the link we auto-generate.

8) Tag your Retargeting Link:Finally, add a tag to your link to help you organise your links in your dashboard. So for example your Tag name could also include a campaign name so you can group all your links for one campaign together:

9) When you’re happy just click Save:

10) To use your Retargeting Link, click the Copy button against your link. If you want to test your retaregting link without recording a click in the dashboard then click the Test button:

YOU’RE RETARGETING LINK IS NOW READY TO BE USED

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A URL slug is the part of a URL or link that comes after the domain extension.

They can be used for websites:
In www.zubbit.io/links – ‘links’ is the URL Slug.

Or they can be used in your custom short links:
In zubbit.io/content-remarketing – ‘content-remarketing’ is the URL slug.

Using a specific and relevant URL slug for your website or custom short link has many benefits.

In websites, the keyword used for your URL slug can be used to SEO optimize the URL by showing Google the structure of your site and the contents of the page in question.

Using the proper URL slug in your short link could lead to more clicks on a certain link or anchor text within a blog post or piece of content in a few ways:

• If it is memorable, users can easily remember it at a later date and find it quickly.
• If it is benefit-driven or compelling, people may see the URL slug and be convinced it’s what they are looking for- prompting them to click.
• If it is masking a confusing, lengthy, or unrecognizable URL, users won’t overlook it

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