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May 06, 2026 · 4 min

The lifetime value of a well-tagged link

Most teams treat links as disposable campaign assets. But a properly tagged link is an appreciating asset — one that compounds analytics value, retargeting data, and institutional knowledge for months or years after creation.

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Apr 29, 2026 · 4 min

How click fraud inflates your unit economics — and what to do about it

Bot traffic and click farms don't just waste ad spend — they corrupt the unit economics your team uses to make channel decisions. Here's how to spot the signals, quantify the damage, and build defenses that actually work.

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Apr 24, 2026 · 3 min

Cost per attributed click vs. cost per click: why the gap matters

Your CPC is the easy number. But when dark traffic, UTM breakage, and cross-device loss erode your attribution, the cost per click you can actually act on is much higher. Here's how to measure the gap — and close it.

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Apr 17, 2026 · 3 min

The economics of link rot: what happens when your short links break

Every broken link is a quiet tax on your marketing budget. Lost traffic, wasted ad spend, and eroded trust — link decay has real unit economics, and most teams have no idea how much it's costing them.

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Apr 10, 2026 · 3 min

What a click actually costs you

Paid, organic, email, social — every channel quotes you a CPC. But that number is the tip of the iceberg. Here's how to count the full cost of a single marketing click, including the infrastructure and attribution overhead nobody puts in the deck.

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