You can limit access to your website by setting up password protection for the short links. One of the main advantages of this Short.io feature is that the password-protected page is not accessible by web crawler bots.
When visitors click on a short protected link, they have to enter the correct password to reach your content. If the password is not valid, an error message is displayed.
In addition, you have the option to allow customers who experience any problems with the password, to contact you via the email address you have entered in your Short.io account settings.
Note: Password protection is available starting from the Pro plan.
To set up password protection
Sign in to your Short.io account.
You can either
shorten a link and click on
Password protection:
or
open a short link for editing and navigate to Password protection:
In the Password protection panel:
toggle the switch Password enabled
enter a password to protect the short link
you can modify the appearance of the password's web page by clicking on Customize CSS. More information on the feature is available in this article
you can activate the option Allow visitors to contact me which will make your Short.io account email address visible to all users who visit the link
Click on Save to complete the settings.
Hereafter, users browsing the protected short URL will be prompted to enter the correct password in order to access the link's content.