By doing so, you will be gaining traffic and earnings. That is why we are sharing with you True URL. True URL is a Blogger URL shorter or let's say encrypter. Download True URL Blogger URL shortener for free from here.
True URL a is fast loading and SEO optimised Blogger URL encrypter template that will help you make more money from your download links.
Nowadays, many Bloggers are using third-party services for shrinking links or encrypting them in the hopes of earning more money from downloads.
But most of these link shrinking services pay very little. You can get thousands of views and downloads but can't make a reasonable earning from them. So, what is the better option for you? Creating your own very link shrinking or encrypting site which functions in the same way as others(adf.ly, ouo.io, etc).
This post is focused on How to make your own link shortener with Blogger and increase earnings. By using this method with your blogger blog, you will increase traffic and earn more than what you get with other link shortener services.
Requirements to create a link shortener site with Blogger
A domain name. Your Blogger blog needs to be on a custom domain name. Although you can still create without a CNAME, it will be more advantageous to have a custom domain name for easy monetisation.
The URL shortener script(code) for Blogger.
Basic HTML knowledge
How this URL shortener will come in handy
- Increase traffic: With third-party link shorteners, your short or encrypted links go through the third-party site. But if you are having a link shortener all that traffic will come back to you.
- Boost earnings: An increase in traffic will definitely result in an increment of your earnings.
Getting started
As we said earlier, you need to have a custom domain name for your Blogspot blog. And if your Blogspot website is already monetised, then you are good. Below are the steps to follow:
Create a subdomain for your blog.
Once you have a custom a Blogspot blog with a CNAME, you can create further subdomains for your existing domain name. Let's say your blog is www.example.com. You should then create a subdomain for this domain like out.example.com where all your external download links will be pointing to, to use for the link shortener site.
Create a new Blogger blog and link to the subdomain
Once you've created your subdomain, you just need to link it to a new Blogspot blog. Alternatively, you can use it on a default Blogspot if you can't afford for a domain name
Uploading URL Shortener script
Once you have created your new Blogspot blog and pointed it to the subdomain of your domain name, you can now upload the URL shortener script or template and customise.
Note that even if you have your main site hosted on WordPress, you can still create a URL shortener with subdomain and host on Blogger free.
To upload the URL shortener script, proceed thus;
- Log in to your Blogger site
- Locate the blog on which you want to upload the template.
- Click on "theme" then "Edit HTML"
- Download URL shortener script from below, open and copy all content.
- On the HTML Editor in your Blogger dashboard, press CTRL + A to copy all content and then delete it.
- Now paste new code(the one you get from here)
- Save the template and there you go.
Customising
You can add Ads code directly from the layout. The title will auto what you've set as blog title as well as the Footer credit.
Template features
- Responsive Design
- SEO Friendly
- Mobile Friendly
- Professional HomePage
- Social Icon
- Wave Animation
- Main Title/Description
- Generate Box
- Features Box
- Footer Wrapper
- Button Get Link
- Button Go To Link
- Timer
- Crypto Js
- And Much More