Recently I started helping my wife on her social media stuff and figure it out that if we wanted to check her click-rate older than 30 days we would need to pay $15/month to Linktree. Insane stuff, specially for such a basic product (I know it has a bunch new features and all, but no one really uses it).
So I put together something quickly for her to start using, but wonder if there are any better or potentially free alternatives out there.
Literally just crate a page on the website with links and track with tag manager
Linktree will also tank your SEO, if that’s any interest. Major search engines are reformulating for AI-driven responses and Linktree stuff just gets ignored.
honestly if you already have a website, i'd just make your own link page. you get full control, your own branding, and you're not stuck paying for features that should be basic.
Planoly's creator store aesthetically looks very similar to what you've built, but it has analytics and payments built in. You can also set up auto-dms if your wife is interested in that. If you get the basic plan (I think it's also around $14), you get both the creator store and the social media scheduling tool.
Jabburr let's you put your website and social links in your profile. You can create a store, event, business page and other stuff directly in Jabburr that can link together. It's free.
Carrd is a super simple website builder that can do this.
Here is a free template https://www.tempeld.com/carrd-templates/social-profile-link-in-bio-landing-page/
honestly the free plan on most of these is enough unless you need the analytics deep. I just use a simple one & call it a day
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What you built is probably the better answer if click history is the only missing feature. Put the page on her own domain and track each outbound link as an event in GA4. She keeps the full history, the URL stays hers, and there is no migration when the next link-in-bio tool changes its free tier. Carrd plus analytics is the low-code version of the same setup.
Btw this is what I put together for her - not advertising it, but just to show that it's really not complex.
https://mylink.social/
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