Pretty Links helps build your online presence by shortening your URLs with your domain.
Let’s take a look at the competition and shorten this URL to one of my posts to see how important Pretty Links are.
The post URL is: https://resignwithmoney.com/my-wealthy-affiliate-it-might-be-for-you/
Pretty Links- https://resignwithmoney.com/laura3
Bitly- https://bit.ly/2AVA0PP
Tiny URL- https://tinyurl.com/y8ofm49f
While all three of these URL shortening tools are good ways to shorten your URL, Pretty Links include your domain in the makeover. It is easier for your readers to remember your site when your domain is visible in the shortened version. And it can increase your conversion rate by up to 25%
I used a short example, but you can easily see the increased benefits of Pretty Links and how it incorporates my domain with my name at the end.
This is a pretty cool plug in that will make our links, well, as they should be – not only short but pretty.
I was introduced to Pretty Links by a friend who has been doing affiliate marketing way ahead of me and I thought it’s really neat. So I tried using it to create nice-looking affiliate links. There’s just one problem I had and that is, that my website load time has slowed down. This could be due to too many plug ins that I installed.
So I had to temporarily deactivate it until such time that I have enough contents into which I will integrate my affiliate links. By the way, isn’t there a free starter account for Pretty Links so we can try it out for a couple of months before deciding if it is worth investing money into it?
Alice, You got my mind working. I searched the pretty links plugin. It says, lightweight. But that is not good enough. So I searched an extensive list of plugins that slow down the site and pretty links are not on any list of a few hundred plugins.
I do hope you can use it because it is excellent to cloak links and the no follow option in the free version is a favorite of mine.
Yes, there is a free version that you can use as long as you like. It is good but the pro version has more really cool options.
Hi Laura,
I have read the whole review of Pretty links plugin. I believe this is the best Plugin for link shortener. I have little bit concern about this plugin. Is it possible to shorten link using this plugin for non wordpress site through my domain name? And if I want to customize it for other domain name, is there any problem? I am going to bookmark it for more thorough analysis. Thanks for sharing this review.
Hello, these are great questions. Yes, you can use it to shorten any link and you can download it to any site. But you can not change the prefix so the site you have it on will use the domain of that site.
I hope this helps.
Thanks for the great reminder about Pretty Links. I did put this plugin on my site a while back but have forgotten about it in the daily business of life. Your article has motivated me to go back and start using it again.
I like the fact that with the pro version you can change all the links on your site to pretty links automatically. That is maybe the answer to saving many hours of hard work changing all my links.
You are welcome my pleasure. I know what you mean about time-saving. I love that feature also. When you do start using it again be sure you check the no-follow option. Google will not follow all of the link redirections and you will not be dinged for too many links. But still be mindful of loading your site with too many links, please. If I can be of assistance to you please let me know.
Thank you for this insightful post. I have been using bitly as my URL shortener and without complaint, however, I have always felt that it is more geared to promote bitly itself rather than my website. from personal experience myself, I find it hard to trust URLs that do not directly implicit what you are clicking on. Pretty links is perfect for website branding and feels more personalized and have trustworthiness about it seeing your site being referenced. I will be sure to give it a try after this. thank you
Hello, Bitly is a good link changer but as you stated Pretty Links is more personal and helps to build your brand. Not to mention is so easy to remember a pretty link. Why don’t you try pretty links for free on your site to see how you like it. I think it will be a good fit for you.
Hey,
Thanks for the informative post. It’s funny that I came upon this article because I just heard about link shorteners about a week ago and I must say Im intrigued. So I’m pretty new to the website designing arena but i have found that there are a lot of tiny things you can do to improve your site. Maybe this is one of the qualities i should invest in? I’m trying to put some finishing details on my website that put me above others. Would this be a logical idea for me or is it something I should wait on until I’m more acquainted with the website designing? Thanks again!!
Michael
Great questions. If you are linking products on your site to outside sources then it would be good to go ahead and use this plugin. If you haven’t started this yet you could wait a bit. But the link pretty links is good for posting on social media as well. It shortens the URL so it is not as long and fits better on Twitter. The cloaking option in the premium is really good for social media as some platforms will not allow a business URL. the cloaking actually hides your business URL from the algorithm.
All the best to you on your new website. If I can help in any way please let me know.