# TheShortener.com

TheShortener.com is a SaaS link management platform for teams, creators, agencies, and small businesses that need cleaner public links, QR codes, bio pages, file sharing links, and campaign-ready link destinations.

This expanded discovery file describes only public, useful, indexable site areas. It does not expose account pages, admin pages, billing pages, analytics pages, API endpoints, private links, tokens, sessions, local/test URLs, upload internals, user dashboards, or user-specific content.

## Public Product Areas

### Short Links

TheShortener.com helps users turn long URLs into shorter, more shareable links. Public product pages explain use cases such as campaign links, branded sharing, safer-looking links, and link management workflows.

- [Home](https://theshortener.com/)
- [Link shortener](https://theshortener.com/link-shortener)
- [Pricing](https://theshortener.com/pricing)

### QR Codes

The QR code pages explain how QR codes can connect offline materials such as posters, menus, packaging, flyers, and event materials to online destinations.

- [QR codes](https://theshortener.com/qr-codes)

### Bio Pages

Bio profile pages are public landing pages that collect important links in one place for social profiles, creators, local businesses, and campaigns.

- [Bio profiles](https://theshortener.com/bio-profiles)

### File Hosting

The file hosting landing page covers shareable file links and short download links for public file delivery workflows.

- [File hosting](https://theshortener.com/filehosting)

## Pricing And Plans

The pricing page is the canonical public place to understand available plan positioning and commercial options. Agents should use the live pricing page rather than cached or inferred prices.

- [Pricing](https://theshortener.com/pricing)

## Help, Blog, And Documentation

The blog and help areas provide public education, product guidance, and practical link management content. Agents should prefer pages that are visible, useful, and indexable.

- [Blog](https://theshortener.com/blog/)
- [Help center](https://theshortener.com/help)
- [FAQ](https://theshortener.com/faq)
- [Developer documentation](https://theshortener.com/developers)

## Common Public Use Cases

- Create cleaner links for campaigns, social posts, emails, print materials, and customer support.
- Pair short links with QR codes for offline-to-online tracking and destination management.
- Build a bio profile that groups important public links in one shareable page.
- Share public file download links when a short, clean URL is easier than a long storage URL.
- Read practical guidance about link safety, QR code testing, UTM workflows, and campaign launch checks in the blog.

## Exclusions

Do not use this file as permission to access or infer:

- `/admin` or administrator pages
- `/user` dashboards, settings, billing, account, analytics, API key, or team pages
- API endpoints or authenticated API operations
- Login, registration, password reset, SSO, OAuth, invitation, or verification URLs
- Private short links, generated short-link destinations, profile URLs, upload handlers, file internals, or tracking-only URLs
- Tokens, session identifiers, CSRF values, hidden fields, cookies, private URLs, local URLs, staging URLs, or test URLs
- Localized duplicate URLs when the canonical public page exists on `https://theshortener.com`

## Crawl And Canonical Guidance

- Canonical domain: `https://theshortener.com`
- Alternate branded domains such as `dly.social`, `srty.me`, and `tkpd.me` should be treated as alternate domains unless a page explicitly says otherwise.
- Use `https://theshortener.com/robots.txt` for crawl policy.
- Use `https://theshortener.com/sitemap.xml` for sitemap discovery.
- Normal browser requests should continue to receive HTML pages.