Make link management easy with advanced features to help you track and manage marketing campaigns and affiliate links all in one place with BetterLinks! To view all of the help documentation for BetterLinks, click here, or follow the abbreviated quick-start guide below.
Create New Links #
BetterLinks helps you to add and create new links with ease. You will be able to use the shorter version of the new link outside of your website as well.
Step 1: Add New Category in BetterLinks #
Go to your dashboard and navigate to BetterLinks → Manage Links. In the middle of the page, you will find the option to ‘Add New Category’.
Click on the blue ‘+’ icon to add a new category. Provide a suitable name for your new category and hit the ‘Submit’ button. Thus how you can add new category successfully to manage links.
Step 2: Create New Links #
It’s time to create new links with BetterLinks, and you can make it happened in two ways. You can click on the ‘Add New Link’ or click the plus icon button under the new category.
Either way, a popup will appear as you can see below and you have to fill up some mandatory fields like Title, Redirect Type, Target URL, and you can manage your shortened URL from there.
Besides, you can add Description, Category, and Tags as per your preferences. Let’s go over which input field represents what.
Title: You have to add a title to create new links. It’s a mandatory field and it’s not necessary to copy and paste exactly the same title of the post. For your better understanding, you can add any type of meaningful title.
Description: It’s an optional field. You can add a short description of the new link in fewer lines. later on, you will be able to find out the purpose of those links at a glance.
Redirect Type: Select your preferred redirect from the drop-down. It’s also a mandatory field. There are now available 3 types of redirections; 301(Permanent), 302(Temporary), and 307(Temporary).
Target URL: You have to provide the link you are going to shorten. Just copy the link from your browser bar and paste that. It’s also a compulsory field.
Shortened URL: After giving the target URL, a shortened new link will be generated automatically. You can customize the shortened link and copy that link directly from your BetterLinks dashboard as well.
Category: You have to choose a category for the new link from drop-down. If you do not select a category, BetterLinks will categorize it as Uncategorized. When you click the plus button under any category, it will pull up the category name immediately.
Tags: You can create tags instantly in the input field or use previously created tags for the newly created link in BetterLinks. It is an optional field. Tags will help you to categorized new links efficiently.
Link Options: Set Your New link’s attributes from this section. Depending on your link’s purpose and attribute you can tick on more than one section. At present there are four types of link options available; No Follow, Sponsored, Parameter Forwarding, and Tracking. Characteristics of every option are given beside each option. you have to tick on the link options based on your new link characteristic.
After filling up every section carefully, hit the ‘Publish’ button. Your new link will be created successfully under your selected category.
Autolink Keywords for Affiliate Marketing #
An automatic link solution or tool can help marketers turn specific keywords on their website into affiliate links. It can also help to include and insert links to older posts, pages, or even attachments into keywords to help you increase conversion rates and engagements.
Follow the step-by-step guide below to learn how you can embed links to specific keywords throughout your website posts or pages in just a few steps using the ‘Auto-Link Keywords’ feature.
Step 1: Create A Redirect Link Using BetterLinks #
Make sure you have a redirected or shortened link on your WordPress website, created using your BetterLinks plugin. This can be your affiliate link, the URL to any other website, or any link that you want to embed into your keywords using the Auto-Link Keywords feature.
Step 2: Insert Links To New Keywords #
Now navigate to the BetterLinks→ Auto-Link Keywords interface. Here, click on the ‘Add New Keywords’ button as shown below.
A popup window will appear on your screen, where you can set a keyword of your choice, select the link you want to insert on that keyword (as created earlier in step 1), and set the post type.
Here, the post type determines where the BetterLinks Auto-Link Keywords feature will insert your desired link – a post on your website, a page, or an attachment.
Note: You can also add multiple keywords. All you have to do is separate the keywords using a comma in-between them.
Step 3: Configure The Auto-Link Keywords Setting #
Next, you can also further customize your link on your keyword. You can set a category and tags to ensure the keyword gets inserted into the right post or page. Also can configure types for the link inserted with this ‘HTML Options’ by clicking on the checkboxes:
- Open New Tab – the link will be opened in a new tab when the keyword is clicked on.
- Use No Follow – the link will not be followed and will be ignored in determining crawling & ranking by search engines.
- Case Sensitive – the link will be only inserted into keywords that match the case you set exactly.
You can also configure other aspects of this feature from its Advanced Settings. Among these you can set the ‘Left Boundary’ and ‘Right Boundary’ of the keyword from the options:
- White Space – there will be ‘Space’ next to the keyword
- Comma – the keyword will be followed by a comma
- Point (Full Stop) – the keyword will be followed by a full stop
- None – no boundaries
If the keyword you choose appears multiple times on your post or page, you can also set ‘Keyword Before’ and ‘Keyword After’ to be more specific about which keyword to link onto. Here you can set the word that comes before and after the keyword of your choice.
For example, suppose there is a phrase in your post ‘BetterLinks QR Code Generator’ where your selected keyword is ‘QR Code’. Here, your keyword before will be ‘BetterLinks’, and the keyword after will be ‘Generator’.
You can also set a limit on how many times the link will be added to the keyword on your post. For example, suppose the keyword appears 50 times on your post but you only want to insert the link to the first 10 keywords on your post, then all you need to do is set the limit to 10, shown below.
And finally, when you are done with the customizations, simply hit the ‘Publish’ or ‘Update’ button. BetterLinks will identify the keywords across your website based on configurations you have set and automatically insert the links on your keywords.
