you need password-protected links

You may want to add an extra layer of security when you share certain types of content. Privacy and security are important for industries like healthcare, finance, telecommunications and telecommunications. Password-protected hyperlinks are an effective way to safeguard sensitive or important information, whether you want to share sensitive information with others or give exclusive access a new promotional campaign or product.

Rebrandly offers password-protected hyperlinks starting with our Basics plan .

Rebrandly on Demand will offer password-protected URLs as an optional feature for plans Professional and higher. If you have any questions, reach out to [email protected] or book a demo here.

Use Cases of Password-Protected Link

Here are some of your most important uses for password-protected hyperlinks:

Marketing

The password protection tool is an effective way to make exclusive content available only to certain audiences, like subscribers, clients, or members. This feature is useful for companies, organizations or creators that want to restrict access or offer special privileges to their valuable resources. You may want to limit access to a webpage while it is still a work in progress, but remove the password when you are ready to launch it. Rebrandly offers analytics and tracking tools that allow you to track who clicked on the link when. This transparency can be especially valuable for content creators and businesses who want to measure engagement, track the success of campaigns, or collect data on user behaviour.

Compliance

In some industries such as healthcare it is important to implement password protection in order to ensure that patients only have access to their own medical data, maintaining privacy and adhering HIPAA regulations. Rebrandly offers Link Redirects where broken links are automatically redirected to an active link. This feature is essential for businesses that rely on timely communications and account notifications.

Password-protected hyperlinks are a great way to comply with local laws and regulations in the highly regulated financial service industry. A business, for example, may want to limit access to certain materials based on group or individual specifications, such as geography. This ensures that the content is only accessible to people in specific places. Businesses can meet compliance standards and safeguard sensitive information by recognizing and using password-protected hyperlinks.

Avoiding Spam

Password protection prevents unauthorized users from crawling and indexing the web pages of your company. Password protection can also help protect against malicious activity, such as content theft, spamming, and data scraping. When you combine Rebrandly with password protection, you can shorten spammy links and replace them with your own branded ones. This will increase the open rate of links that users trust.

Create password-protected links

A password can be set easily on a brand link. Once you have chosen a link shortener that allows password protection, such as Rebrandly, you can start. Learn more about Rebrandly’s password-protected link here. Remind yourself to always test your link once it has been created.

Password-protecting web pages is also possible directly through your CMS. You can password protect a URL or a folder.

Tips for choosing Secure Passwords

It’s not necessary to have long passwords that you will always forget, but it is important to ensure they are secure. These guidelines are recommended.

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  Combine uppercase, lowercase, numbers and special characters.
  
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  Do not use information that is easily guessed, such as your birth date, name or other common words.
  
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  Create a password that is unique for each URL or page protected by a password.
  
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  Use a password manager to store and create strong passwords.
  
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  Avoid using sequential characters or repeated characters.
  
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  Knowledge based authentication (KBA), for example, “What was your first pet’s name?” should not be used.
  
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  Passwords shouldn’t have any hints.
  

Password-protected hyperlinks are a powerful tool that offers many benefits. These practices can help make your online experience safer and more efficient. They do everything from safeguarding sensitive data and giving you exclusive access to valuable contents to improving security and simplifying the sharing of links. Individuals and businesses can protect their privacy and control access by implementing password-protection and using link-shortening tools.

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Author: Carla Bourque