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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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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