Link Beautifier

This page explains how to use the link beautifier. This is a features which allows to shorten the links which are now in the quiz pages.

Why is this necessary?

If you have the quiz installed into a domain called

http://www.myowndomain.com/quiz.

And you have an active quiz http://www.myowndomain.com/quiz/index.php/best-diet-quiz/ that links is very long.

And it can get even longer if you use the tell-a-friend feature http://www.myowndomain.com/quiz/index.php/best-diet-quiz/tell-a-friend or http://www.myowndomain.com/quiz/index.php/best-diet-quiz/tweet-my-quiz

This features allows to shorten those links, by automatically creating for you files that will redirect to the root quiz, tell-a-friend and tweet-my-quiz.

You can then take those files and place them in to any place of your domain.

In this way when you want to pass along the URL for those links via emails they are shorter and look nicer.

so instead of http://www.myowndomain.com/quiz/index.php/best-diet-quiz/tell-a-friend

you can have

http://www.myowndomain.com/tell-about-diet-quiz

The Video

Watch this video and see exactly what your website visitors will experience and how you need to set it up:

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How to configure that?

There is not much to configure. The dashboard creates all the files. You just need to download them and eventually change their names as you wish

1 - Step One: Download the files

Go to Extra Features for a particular quiz.

Download the files you need

From the corresponding section select which file you want to use and hit the Download button.

2 - Step Two: Change the name of the files

As you can see the files come with predefined names: index.php, tweet-64.php and tell-64.php. A small explanation is required.

1. As you reached this "Extra Features" area, each of the files from the Link Beautifier section correspond and contain inside the redirect to the quiz links that you chose from the list. Each of the quizzes from the quiz list will have a different files names for the tweet-my-quiz and tell-a-friend. The index.php will be the same (as name) but the content inside is different.


2. The file tweet-64.php has the name composed by the action tweet + 64 where 64 is the id of the quiz you are working on now. It's the same for the file tell-a-friend. That number will be different from one quiz to the next. So you will have tell-64.php, tell-12.php, etc. Obviously you can change that name with something that you like, or you can leave it like that.


3. The first file index.php is called like that because it most case the nicer way to send people to a link is to create a folder on your domain let's say www.YourDomain.com/diet-quiz and in that folder place the file index.php. The file will redirect to the quiz from which you took the file from. In this case let's say it is http://www.myowndomain.com/quiz/index.php/best-diet-quiz.

The first file index.php is called like that because it most case it’s a nicer way to send people to your quiz.

The first thing to do is to create a folder on your domain let's say

www.YourDomain.com/diet-quiz

and in that folder place the file index.php.

This link will redirect to the quiz from which you took the index.php file from. In this case let's say it is http://www.myowndomain.com/quiz/index.php/best-diet-quiz

Which means you can give away the shorter, nicer link to your prospects:

www.YourDomain.com/diet-quiz

and the file you placed inside index.php will redirect them to

http://www.myowndomain.com/quiz/index.php/best-diet-quiz

Additional tips:

The rule about using folders as redirect is simple.  The file you put in that folder must be renamed to index.php

If you don't want to use folder you can simply rename the file you take from the link beautifier area, to something that make sense to your prospects.

See some more examples below:

Besides using the redirect as a folder you can use it as a file. Using redirect as file is like this: 

Download from the dashboard the index.php from the link beautifier section of a quiz.  Then rename that file to let's say diet-quiz.php.  Place that file in any folder and in any domain you want, e.g.:

www.YourDomain.com/diet-quiz.php

or

www.AnotherOfYourDomains.com/diet-quiz.php

In this way giving any of these short links to your prospects they will be redirected to:

http://www.myowndomain.com/quiz/index.php/best-diet-quiz

obviously you can do the same with the other two files: tweet-64.php and tell-64.php

you just need to rename them to something nicer:

www.YourDomain.com/retweet-my-diet-quiz.php for tweet-64.php

www.YourDomain.com/telll-about-my-diet-quiz.php for tell-64.php

It is up to you how you want to name those files.

You can also use the link beautifier in case you have subdomains:

Let say that you created yourself a subdomain:

http://diet-quiz.YourDomain.com

In your hosting account management system (cpanel, or anything else) you have set up to point that subdomain to something like:

public_html/diet-quiz-subdomain

or (depending on your server)

www/dite-quiz-subdomain

then the only thing you need to do is place the index.php into that folder.  In that way you can give to your prospects the short link

http://diet-quiz.YourDomain.com

and they will be redirected to:

http://www.myowndomain.com/quiz/index.php/best-diet-quiz

Additional tips about tell-a-friend or tweet-my-quiz:

if you want to use the re-tweet and tell a friend you have lots of options.  One idea is to create folders for that subdomain:

http://diet-quiz.YourDomain.com/retweet

and

http://diet-quiz.YourDomain.com/tell-a-friend

then rename the files:

tweet-64.php into index.php and place it in the retweet folder of that subdomain

rename the file tell-64.php into index.php and place it in tell-a-friend of that subdomain

 

3 - Step Three: Use the files

Regardless if you decide to change the files names or not, at this step you just need to decide where you put them. Technically it makes no difference where they are located.

It is advisable to put them in a location that it's as short as possible.