URL Shortener
Create sleek, manageable short links in seconds.
Why Shorten Your Links?
Clean & Professional
Long, messy URLs with tracking codes look suspicious and unprofessional. A short, branded link from PicLinks instills trust and is much easier to share in emails, social bios, and messages.
Powerful Analytics
Stop guessing how your content performs. Every link you create comes with a dashboard showing unique clicks, referrer data, and geographical breakdown, helping you optimize your campaigns.
Best Practices for Link Sharing
- Track Everything: create unique short links for different channels (e.g., one for Twitter, one for Email) to see exactly where your traffic is coming from.
- Test Before You Post: Always click your short link once to ensure the destination URL is correct and active before sharing it with your audience.
- Avoid Double Redirection: Don't shorten a link that is already a short link (like bit.ly). It slows down the user experience and triggers spam filters.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Once you create a short link, it stays active permanently unless you violate our terms of service. We do not recycle URLs.
Yes. To support our free high-performance infrastructure, visitors may see a brief interstitial ad before reaching the destination. As the creator, your own visits are ad-free if you have the creator cookie enabled.
Currently, we autogenerate cryptographic short codes (like /s/a1b2) to ensure uniqueness and speed. Custom aliases may be available in future updates.
Our robust infrastructure and global network ensure that redirect lookups happen in milliseconds, so your users never have to wait.