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New! Check Open Graph links & debug deep links on our website for free

We've added two more free tools to the Short.io Tools tab — an “Open Graph checker” and a “Deep links debugger”. If you share links on social media or route users into mobile apps, these are for you. No sign-up, no limits, and available right now. Open Graph checker You drop a link on LinkedIn, Slack, wherever, and it’s all wrong. Wrong image, missing description, naked URL with no preview at all. That's an Open Graph (OG) problem. Here’s where the discrepancy happens. Pages use meta tag

Emanuil S. Apr 21, 2026

New! Generate, customize, and debug QR codes on our website for free

Short.io’s website now has a dedicated Tools section, featuring four brand-new, useful utilities. All are completely free, and there’s no sign-up required. The first two we’ve added are “QR code generator” and “QR code debugger.” Here’s what they do. QR code generator This isn't a bare-bones "paste a URL, get a square" tool. Our QR Code Generator gives you real control over how your QR codes look before you download them. You can customize: * Color (code, finder, background, and label)

Emanuil S. Apr 16, 2026

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Bot vs. human traffic: How it works & what you can do about it

You launch a campaign, you check your clicks, and the numbers look great… …except 99% of it isn’t real. That’s not a random number we pulled up. Bots will consistently be over 99% of your traffic. Now, this isn’t something to panic about — every website, link, metadata, image, etc. on the internet experiences bot traffic. They’re simply an inseparable part of being online. And they can come from many places and for different reasons. Some are malicious, but most are benign. Thankfully,

Emanuil S. Mar 26, 2026

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