How links, codes and campaign measurement actually work, including the parts that are messier than the marketing usually admits.
URL shortening · 8 min read
Not the feature list. The questions worth asking are about what happens when things go wrong, and almost none of them appear on a comparison page. Here they are, with our own answers.
7 October 2026
Link analytics · 9 min read
Set the privacy argument aside entirely. Collecting everything about link traffic is expensive, produces worse decisions and creates obligations that outlive whoever agreed to them. Here is what to measure instead, in your own analytics.
23 September 2026
URL shortening · 9 min read
Dynamic usually means a link whose destination you can change after publishing. Static means you cannot. Here is what that really costs, when each is right, and how to plan when all you have is static.
9 September 2026
Link analytics · 7 min read
The referrer is one optional header, sent by the visitor's browser and limited by the page they came from. Knowing how browsers decide what to send explains most of what confuses people about referrer reports.
26 August 2026
Digital marketing · 8 min read
What a branded short domain is, the DNS records and certificates behind it, the trade-offs nobody mentions, and what to check before you choose a service that offers one.
12 August 2026
Digital marketing · 8 min read
The problem arrives suddenly. One month the list fits on a screen; the next it doesn't, and nobody can find the link on the flyer. A shared spreadsheet, a naming convention and a UTM vocabulary fix most of it.
29 July 2026
Bio pages · 8 min read
Top to bottom, what a good bio page contains, the four questions that decide whether anything belongs on it, and how to tell what is working without click counts.
15 July 2026
QR codes · 8 min read
Encoding a short link instead of a long address gives you a coarser, easier code and a line of text people can type. Here is what that buys you, what it does not, and how to plan for a destination that might change.
1 July 2026
Campaign tracking · 8 min read
Technically nothing. In practice, a campaign link carries a question you want answered, and that changes how it should be tagged, named and recorded.
17 June 2026
URL shortening · 8 min read
Expiring links have real uses, and real risks once a link is printed or widely shared. Here is when expiry earns its place, and why LinkMint chose links that last.
3 June 2026
Digital marketing · 9 min read
Seven placements where a printed QR code beats the alternative, with what to encode, how big to print it and what it should open for each.
20 May 2026
QR codes · 8 min read
A printed QR code cannot be changed, so the decisions that matter happen before it reaches the printer: where it leads, how big it is, and whether it actually scans.
6 May 2026
Bio pages · 8 min read
A stack of identical buttons works at three links and fails at eight. The problem is not the number of links; it is that nothing on the page says which one matters.
22 April 2026
Link analytics · 8 min read
Almost everything you want to know about the traffic your links send can be answered in your own analytics without storing anything that identifies anyone. Here is how, and why LinkMint itself records nothing at all.
8 April 2026
Campaign tracking · 8 min read
Five labels you can add to a URL so your analytics can say where a visit came from. What each one means, which three matter most, and the small inconsistencies that quietly split your reports.
25 March 2026
Link analytics · 7 min read
The largest row in many analytics reports is the one nobody can explain. Here is what is actually in it, why short links and QR codes end up there, and how to make it smaller with tagged links.
11 March 2026
URL shortening · 8 min read
Handing a retired short link code to someone new looks like tidy housekeeping. In practice it gives a stranger traffic that was meant for somebody else. Here is how that goes wrong, and why LinkMint never reuses a code.
25 February 2026
URL shortening · 9 min read
A 301 invites browsers and caches to remember the answer; a 302 asks them to check again. For short links that difference decides who stays in control, even when the destination never changes.
11 February 2026
URL shortening · 9 min read
A short link feels instant, but a precise sequence runs in between: DNS, a secure connection, one lookup, a 302 and a second request. Here is each step, and what LinkMint does (and does not do) during it.
28 January 2026
URL shortening · 8 min read
Shortening is the least interesting thing a short link does. A good one is readable, hard to mistype, permanent, checkable before you tap it and quiet about who follows it. Here is what that is worth, and what it deliberately leaves out.
14 January 2026
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