How to use the Smart Redirector on JotURL

The Smart Redirector takes care of redirecting users depending on specific conditions.

To select these conditions, you must first access the Smart Redirector page.

First you must click on one of the links within your projects, select it, access the Joturl additional options page and click the "Smart Redirector" box.

Inside the page you can find a box with the URL used to create the tracking link, the destination 1. 

This destination will be the default destination, that is: your customers will be redirect to this URL if none of the condition will be satisfied.

Furthermore, even if the second destination URL has problems, the user will be redirected to the first URL, without 404 pages appearing, etc.

The Advanced "Check Rule" Button,  a new addition, is a feature that allows you to avoid logical errors within the conditions set in your Smart Redirector. That is, if two conditions are in conflict with each other (and would not allow the tool to function correctly) this will be indicated to you through the advanced control of the conditions.

The other Box on the right provides you to add a new URL. Just click on the "Add new alternative destionation" box.

In the new screen you can choose any tracking link within the project as a secondary destination.

You can already add a branded domain without having to go back to the home dashboard, you can also select the alias to give your link the best look. Remember that branding and customizing a link can increase your click rate!

Once you have selected the URL of the new destination you will have to select the conditions.

In the first drop-down menu, there are many conditions.

They concern the categories to divide your visitors: 

• Language
• Country
• Operating system
• Mobile device
• Operating system version
• Browser
• Browser type
• Main browser version
• Unique visits
• Visits
• QR Code?
• Already Visited?
• Time (UTC)
• Referrer

Depending on the category you will have different options in the second and third drop-down menus.

You can manage your condition with the creation of groups - click on "+ GROUP" button and create a new group.

By creating a new group you will have a default first condition, to have more conditions just click "+ Condition". 

If you have more than one condition you can decide whether to tick the option "AND" or the option "OR". 

AND: both conditions must be fulfilled.

OR: it is enough that only one of the conditions occurs.

Let's take an example with "Language" option. 

If you select "Language" in the first drop-down menu you will have the following fields:

In the second drop-down menu there are the options: "equal to" and "not equal to". 

In this way you are setting the terms of the condition. 

Finally in the third drop-down menu we can choose ( just for an example) the languages we need: English or Italian or German, etc.

In this way you can create a condition based on the language used by your visitors. 

If that visitor uses the language of your condition he will be redirected to the destination URL that corresponds to his language.

Considering that you can have many URLs destinations and many different conditions, it could be possible to create landing pages for each language used by your visitors. 

You can use all the different conditions present in the Redirector in order to create and manage every step of your customers journey. 

Through all the conditions and fields of the Smart Redirector you will have even more control over your users and your traffic. 

Once you have selected your options and conditions, just click the "Save" button to set the new conditions.

The conditions must be set by you manually according to your needs.

If you have any questions left on the topic please don’t hesitate to to contact us.