THE URLZBIT BLOG
Practical guides to short links, QR codes, campaign tracking and smarter destinations.
Guides
Rebrandly built its name on branded links: your domain, your name after the slash, your brand on every shared link. It is a good product. It is also an increasingly expensive habit. If your monthly bill feels too heavy for what is, at heart
Oct 24, 2026Guides
A vanity URL is a short, custom, human-readable web address built around your brand name, a keyword, or a campaign — designed to replace a long, forgettable link with one people can see, remember, and trust. The "vanity" in the name makes i
Oct 23, 2026Guides
Bitly vs Rebrandly: which link shortener is worth paying for? Choosing between Bitly and Rebrandly? The two most visible "comparisons" on Google are written by Bitly and Rebrandly themselves — the contestants, judging their own fight. This
Oct 23, 2026Guides
Running your own URL shortener sounds free. The software costs nothing, the domain is yours, and nobody can cut your free plan to 5 links a month. But "free" hides a stack of real costs — hosting, renewals, and the most expensive one of all
Oct 22, 2026Guides
Amazon product URLs are long, ugly, and — if you earn from Amazon's affiliate programme — surprisingly fragile. A raw link pasted into a YouTube description, a tweet, or an email signature wastes characters, breaks across lines, and quietly
Oct 22, 2026Guides
A practical tutorial for the URLZBit developer API: authenticate with a Bearer key, create short links with cURL, Python and JavaScript, manage links, pull analytics, and respect the 120 requests/minute rate limit.
Oct 21, 2026Guides
Add a password prompt to a managed short link, test the visitor experience and understand why the destination website still needs its own access controls.
Oct 21, 2026Guides
Bulk URL Shortener: Shorten 100 Links at Once (Paste or CSV) Shortening one link takes about ten seconds. Shortening two hundred links one by one takes your whole afternoon — and it is exactly the kind of repetitive work that produces typo
Oct 20, 2026Guides
If you manage links for a small business, a freelance practice, or a growing team, you have probably hit the same wall: Bitly's free plan now allows just 5 new links and 2 QR codes a month, and the next step up is a paid subscription that r
Oct 20, 2026
