Link Manager

• Your Aha Studio accountLinks live on your account. Visitors see a read-only example on the Link Manager page, marked as an example.
• The destinationThe address the link should go to: an affiliate link, an offer, a booking page, a sign-up page. For a rotator, two to five of your own pages.

1. 1Open Link ManagerAt linkmanager.ahastudio.net, or Account, Links: both show the same list.
2. 2Press Add a linkGive it a Name you will recognise, the Destination, and optionally a Slug (made from the name when blank) and Notes for yourself.
3. 3Copy its addressEach row shows its address, like ahastudio.net/go/your-code/your-slug, with Copy. Paste it into your page, post, email or bio instead of the destination.
4. 4Watch the clicksEach row shows its clicks, all time and this week. Clicks opens them by day, referring site and country.
5. 5Replace the destination when an offer endsPress Edit or replace, give the new destination and Save. The address stays the same, so every page that carries it follows at the next click. Nothing to republish.

A link can hold up to 5 destinations with weights. Each click picks one: a weight of 3 against 1 is three clicks in four, over time.

1. 1Press Rotate between two or more destinationsIn the link form, under the first destination. Add each page and its weight.
2. 2Use it for your own pagesTwo offers, an A and a B page, two booking pages. Never to send people somewhere they did not expect.

Your WordPress site can answer your links itself, as yoursite.com/go/your-slug. No DNS record and no subdomain: WordPress already serves your domain. It needs the free Aha Studio Connector plugin 1.6.0 or later, and the Aha Studio address of every link keeps working either way.

1. 1Connect the siteUnder Account, Publishing, connect your WordPress site with an Administrator account and install the Aha Studio Connector plugin (Download plugin, then in WordPress Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin).
2. 2Press Use this siteUnder Your domains, in Use my WordPress site. Aha Studio checks the plugin on your site first: older than 1.6.0, it says Update the plugin to use this.
3. 3Your links show the new addressEvery link that showed the Aha Studio address now shows yoursite.com/go/its-slug, with Copy. Address on changes it per link.
4. 4What a visitor getsA 302 to the same destination as the Aha Studio address, for people and search engines alike, never cached or indexed. The click is counted the same way: the referring site's name and the country, nothing personal. Only your own links answer on your site; any other address under /go/ is a plain not found page.
5. 5If Aha Studio cannot be reachedYour site keeps each answer for 5 minutes and remembers the last destination of every link, so links keep working. A link it has never seen shows a plain "This link is not available right now" page until Aha Studio answers again.
6. 6StopStop turns the /go/ addresses off on that site. Links that showed it go back to the Aha Studio address.

Show your links on a domain of yours, like go.yoursite.com/your-slug (or go.yoursite.com/go/your-slug), instead of the Aha Studio address. The Aha Studio address of every link keeps working either way. If the card says custom domains switch on once Aha Studio finishes the setup, subdomains are not switched on yet; your WordPress site works already.

1. 1Press Add a domainUnder Your domains, type a subdomain you own, like go.yoursite.com or links.yoursite.com. Up to 5 domains, each on one account only.
2. 2Add the CNAME recordWhere the DNS for your domain is managed, add the CNAME record the card shows, set to DNS only (not proxied). Copy copies its value.
3. 3Press CheckThe status moves from Waiting for DNS to Verifying while the certificate is issued, then Live. A Problem says why, for example a record that points somewhere else. DNS changes can take a few minutes, sometimes a few hours, and are checked on their own too.
4. 4Pick it on a linkOn each link, Address on picks your domain; the row and Copy then show the address on it. If the record is ever removed, the domain serves nothing and you get one email, while the Aha Studio address keeps working.

Some workers can write a managed link into what they make instead of the raw destination. The row appears in your list, and you replace it here later.