How to Organize Your Short Links with Tags
· Tips · 5 min read
Once you've created a few dozen short links, finding the right one gets hard. Learn how to use tags to organize, filter, and manage short links by campaign, client, or channel.
The first ten short links are easy to keep track of. The next hundred are not. Once you're running multiple campaigns across email, social, and print, a flat list of links becomes a haystack. Tags turn that haystack into something you can actually search.
What Tags Are
A tag is a short label you attach to a link — like q3-launch, client-acme, or newsletter. A single link can carry several tags, so one link can belong to both a campaign and a channel at once. Tags don't change how the link works; they're purely for organizing and finding links later.
A Simple Tagging System That Scales
- Tag by campaign: Group every link for one initiative under a single tag, e.g. summer-sale, so you can pull up the whole campaign at once.
- Tag by channel: Labels like email, instagram, or print let you see which distribution channel a link belongs to.
- Tag by client or team: Agencies and larger teams can separate work with tags like client-acme or team-growth.
- Keep tags lowercase and consistent: Pick one convention (hyphens, no spaces) and stick to it so tags don't fragment into near-duplicates.
Filtering Your Links by Tag
In your Alias dashboard, tags become filters. Click a tag to instantly narrow your link list to just those links — across your entire account, not only the page you're looking at. Combine a tag filter with a sort like "most clicks" and you can answer questions like "which of my summer-sale links performed best?" in a couple of clicks.
How to Add Tags
- When creating a link, type a tag into the tags field and press Enter to attach it. Add up to ten tags per link.
- On an existing link, use the tag button on the link card to add or remove tags at any time.
- Click any tag — in the list or on a card — to filter your whole account down to links that share it.
Tags vs Custom Slugs
It's worth keeping these separate in your head. A custom slug is the public, shareable identity of one link (alias.live/summer-sale). A tag is a private, internal label that groups many links and is never shown to the people who click. Use slugs to make links memorable, and tags to keep your own workspace organized.