Guides for your link in bio

How to build the page, what to put on it, how to know what gets clicked, and how to get your links out when a tool closes. Written for someone with a few hundred followers and five links, which is most of us.

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Comparisons

Free Linktree alternatives: what each free plan really includes

9 tools, free plans compared

Prices and limits of the free plans of Linktree, Beacons, Campsite, Carrd, Lnk.Bio and others, checked in September 2026: what it costs to remove the logo, who offers a custom domain, and where your click numbers are.

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Setting the page up

What to put in your link in bio (and in what order)

4–7 rows a bio page can carry

A practical way to decide which links go on your bio page, how to order them, how to label them so people click, and what to leave off.

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How to add a link to your bio on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X

9 places your link can go

Where the link field lives on each platform, why a URL typed into your bio text is not clickable, and how to point every profile at one address you can change later.

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Clicks and search

How to find out which link in your bio gets clicked

3 ways to measure the clicks on your page

Three ways to measure clicks on a link in bio page, including UTM tags that work even when your tool hides per-link numbers behind a paid plan, plus the traps that make the numbers lie.

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Why your link page does not show up on Google

49/80 free Linktree pages blocked from search

How to check whether your link in bio page is blocked from search, what the noindex tag is doing on most free Linktree pages, and the five reasons a page stays invisible.

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Owning the address

When your link in bio service shuts down: how to save your page

4 services closed between 2024 and 2026

Koji, Linkpop, Bento and Tap.bio all closed between 2024 and 2026. What a shutdown actually breaks, how to get your links out before and after the notice, and how to recover a page from a service that is already dead.

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