Getting started · ~10 min

Your first smart link, bio, and tracking

A quick visual walkthrough of git-royal for independent artists — from one release link to knowing exactly which ads drive streams.

1. Create your smart link 2. Style it and connect tracking 3. Set up your bio link 4. Manage links and short codes 5. Read your analytics

Step 1

Create your smart link

Every release gets one smart link that opens a clean landing page with a button for every streaming service — Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, and the rest. Add your cover art, title, and streaming URLs, and git-royal builds the page for you. Instead of scattering a dozen platform URLs across your posts, you share a single music link — the ideal destination for a music marketing campaign, your Instagram and TikTok bio, an email blast, or a paid ad. Fans tap straight through to the app they already use, so fewer of them drop off before they hit play.

A git-royal smart link landing page for a music release, showing the cover art and streaming service buttons fans tap to listen — Your smart link: one page, every platform, ready to share.

Step 2

Style it and connect tracking

Make the page yours — pick a palette, button shape, and layout so it matches your release artwork and brand. Then, when you're ready to run a music marketing campaign, paste in your Meta or TikTok pixel. git-royal records every preview and stream-click server-side through Meta's Conversions API and TikTok's Events API, not just the browser pixel. That matters because iOS privacy changes (App Tracking Transparency) and ad blockers quietly drop browser-only conversions — server-side tracking sends the data straight from git-royal, protecting the Meta pixel conversion data your ad platform relies on to optimize delivery and lower your cost per listener.

The git-royal smart link editor, with controls for colors, button shape, layout, and pixel tracking settings — Customize the look, then connect your pixel for blocker-proof tracking.

Step 3

Set up your bio link

Your handle becomes a link-in-bio page — a photo, your social icons, and stacked buttons for every release and destination you want fans to reach. It's the single music link for your Instagram and TikTok profile, so you never have to rewrite your bio for each new drop. And because every tap is tracked, you learn which release, playlist, or merch link your followers actually click — turning a static bio into a measurable part of your funnel. Update it once and every platform that points to your handle stays current, keeping your whole social presence in sync.

A git-royal bio link page with an artist photo, social icons, and stacked buttons linking to releases — Your bio link: photo, socials, and every release in one place.

Step 4

Manage links and short codes

Turn any long URL — a playlist, a merch drop, a tour date, a pre-order — into a short, branded git-royal link you can drop into a caption, bio, or ad. Every short code counts its clicks, giving you lightweight music data analytics on exactly what your audience taps. Branded short links also read as more trustworthy than raw tracking URLs, which nudges click-through rates up, and they let you swap the destination later without changing a link you've already posted or printed. It's included free on every plan, so you can track from day one.

The git-royal link management dashboard listing short links with their destinations and click counts — Short, branded links with click counts — free on every plan.

Step 5

Read your analytics

Each release page has its own dashboard: page views, previews, and stream-clicks, broken out by paid versus organic traffic. This is the music data analytics layer most link tools skip — instead of vanity clicks, you see which ads and channels drive real listens. During a music marketing campaign you can tell whether your Meta or TikTok spend is producing plays or just cheap traffic, spot which release is resonating, and shift budget accordingly. Paired with server-side tracking, the paid numbers here reconcile with what your ad platform reports, so you can trust the cost-per-result you're optimizing toward.

A git-royal analytics dashboard for a release, breaking traffic into paid versus organic with previews and stream clicks — Per-release analytics: paid vs organic, previews, and stream-clicks.

Ready to build your first page?

Start free — create your smart link and bio in minutes, add a pixel whenever you run ads.

Start free