How to Use Bitly for Beginners 2024 Customize & Shorten Links with Bitly

Hey everybody, welcome to this new video. In today's tutorial let's take a look really really quick how we can use the Bitly platform

This website is really really easy to shorten our URLs. And we can generate QR codes and now we can create linked in bios, which I think is really really really useful

So whether you are an influencer, you are a musician, you are a content creator, you are a graphic designer, whatever you are

I think Bitly is going to be helping you a lot, really really a lot here into the entertainment world and all the creative stuff

So I'm going to leave you guys a link down below in the description so you can sign up totally for free

So once you click down below you will want to go into the free version if you don't want to pay absolutely for anything

But if you want to look for, let's say like a plan that can be helping you to get more and more features

For example we do have the basic option where you can get a custom link redirection, you can get some branded links

and you have a lot, a lot, a lot of custom domains

But if you are like not interested in that, go into the git store for free, there is no rush in that

And here what I want to do is to look for a username

I want to copy my email and then what I want to do is to create and just import a passcode and go into sign up with email

So what I want to do here is to try signed in

So what I want to do here is to choose an email

And once I do have successfully created my account it's really easy just to customize that

how you use your links for work, for personal use, both. This is not, this is totally optional, but I want to use both

And here what I want to do is to input my first name, last name, and here I have the organization, let's say White Star

And the title, you want to choose an owner, department, this is totally like just for optional

If you want to skip this step you can do this. If you want to like go straight into the material thing, let's get started

So what I want to do, why do I need to have some short URLs

Because if I want to share my music, let's say that I'm a musician, I want to go for Uke's music

Like this guy just blow it this year into the 2022. So if I want to share like a song, for example the Golden Hour, I'm going to go into the three dots, go into share

and I'm going to copy the link of this song, of this specific song

If I want to share this with someone else, I'm going to paste the link

and take a look into all the characters that appears into the URL. I mean, it's a lot, really, really, really a lot

So, sometimes, it doesn't matter if this one goes to upland.spotify.com. If a customer, if a client, if someone else looks like this, a lot of characters into a website

they would probably freaked out and they might be wondering that this is a spam or something like that

So that's the reason why I love to use shortened URLs. So this one is going to be looking more professional and kind of cute

So I'm going to go into Betley once again, I'm going to go into create your first link

and here at the destination, I can just paste my link, which I think there's a lot, a lot, a lot of characters

And here at the title, I want to look the title for the song, like, let's say, Golden Hour song by Uke

Like this. Like this. And then what I want to do is to go ways to share

You want to look for a Spotify domain. I can either choose this one or this one

So if I choose spotty.fi, it says the destination URL points to an auto-branded domain that cannot be customized

You can still copy and share just like any other Betley link

So, unfortunately, I want to choose the first option. So then I want to go into the create and my link has been already been created

So what I just need to do is to copy this link

And instead of having all of this, a lot of characters, I want to just paste my new character

Here is bit.ly and I can hit enter and it's going to be sending me directly into Spotify

Really, really easy, right? Now, if I want to generate some QR codes, I can do this

So whether you created your first website and you forgot to add the QR code or you want to create that, I'm going to go into create QR code

Now, here it appears as QR code coming soon, but you don't have to worry about that because there's another way that we can do this

After you paste your destination URL, down in here you want to enable the QR code

And boom, my QR code has been enabled right away. So we're going to go into my dashboard and I want to add a QR code to the link that we just generated

So you want to scroll a little bit down and here I want to choose create QR code

And boom, here is my color. Here's my QR code. If you have a logo, you can add that in here

And if you want to change the color, you can do that once again in here

But once again, we do need to upgrade to a basic plan minimum to customize our QR code

which I think is going to be pretty, pretty useful to have a QR code with your custom brand integrated here

And lastly, I can create a link into my bio section that appears in here

I want to choose create link in bio and here into domain, choose Bitly, back half

Let's say I want to choose golden age and choose create site

And there we go. Here is my linked bio. So what I want to do in here is to customize my link

Go into add link, go into my song on Spotify. And here I want to paste the URL that we just created and the short link domain

You can go into create. And boom, it's really, really easy. Now, in my case, this link has been already created

So I'm going to choose another song from the same artist, assuming I am this artist

Of course, I'm not. I'm just doing this as an example. I'm going to paste the destination URL. I'm going to hit into create

And boom, here is my link that already created. So I can just add more things like my Instagram and get into a new destination URL and get into create and blah, blah, blah

So everything has been just created successfully. If I want to customize my landing page, I'm going to get into customization

Of course, I want to publish the changes. I don't want to miss anything of that

I want to go into customization. I want to add an image of my profile image if I want to like this one

And I do have the page title, the page description, and so much more stuff to edit

I want to go into singer song writer, for example, or just tap

Let's say like this and tap singer song writer and scroll a bit down

I can add my socials if I want to, instead of just adding that in here to links

So I can just right away tap something like Instagram.com. And I'm going to leave it like that because I don't want to add a social platform

And then I can connect on the profile if I want to. The icon style, I'm going to leave it into black

The layout, I'm going to leave it for, let's say, hero. And I can choose different colors for, let's say, for example, this one

And here's the shape of my colors. I'm going to leave it like this. And I can change the fonts as you can see, really, really easy

And lastly, we do have the performance. So I can see in here how many people linked, clicked into my link on the last 7 days, 14 days

And I can just go into public changes, go back into my links

And boom, we do have everything successfully created. And if this wasn't enough, we do have the campaigns where you can just organize your links here

You can compare between performance across all the channels. But this is only available for the premium plan

Of course, the custom links as well. So you want to check it out the plans if you want to take a look into both of these great, great features

Which in my personal scenario, this was really, really useful for my brand

So hopefully, this was a very useful video for you guys. Thank you so much for watching the video

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