When creating your Pretty Link slug, the slug is what comes after the domain name, naturally they all need to be unique. If you should create a link that is already taken, Pretty Link will tell you. This can be seen in the image below with the error message just under the Pretty Link logo.

The slug I had chosen “how-to-make-money-at-wealthy-affiliate” was already taken. So I added the word “long” so it would read, “how-long-to-make-money-at-wealthy-affiliate” and then I clicked Create at the bottom of the screen, see below image.

Once I created the link successfully the Pretty Link Links menu screen appears and you will see your newly created Pretty Link on the right side of the screen in the gray shaded box. The target URL will be below it and the Link Title on the left side, see below image.

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Loubelle Premium
Thanks I am going to bookmark this regards
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boomergp08 Premium
You are welcome Louise.
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Thanks Robert, bookmarked.
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You are welcome Brian.
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dorina62 Premium
I never ever thought to push Hits.Interesting!Thank you for the training!
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boomergp08 Premium
You are welcome Dorina. It was my pleasure to share this with the community.
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LizPB Premium
Great!! Thanks!! Question though...Is Pretty Link or Bitly better??
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KatieMac Premium
I prefer pretty links perhaps it is because I find it easier, have a try with both and see which you like best, try it out on a practice website
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boomergp08 Premium
I would choose Pretty Link because it includes your domain name and then the shortened slug. You can either select the 3 or 4 character shortened link the Pretty Link generates or you can create your own.
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LizPB Premium
Good point ;-)
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LizPB Premium
Thanks!
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boomergp08 Premium
You are welcome.
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Loes Premium
Can to explain to me what cloaking a link exactly is? I have seen that word before, but I don't understand the benefit or meaning of it
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jivitajay Premium Plus
Cloaking is where you deliberately mislead Google into telling them they are going to one site but you take visitors to somewhere completely different .
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Loes Premium
Ok, thank you, you understand I do not use that:)
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jivitajay Premium Plus
:):)
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boomergp08 Premium
jivitaa339 is correct. Some call it a form of Black Hat SEO that as you know is not recommended that you do.
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jivitajay Premium Plus
Thanks Robert.
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boomergp08 Premium
You are welcome.
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