Cloaking SMS Links (6)
Im currently promoting an adult dating site with my sms traffic. I have an initial message that request the user to opt-in. Once the user opts-in, I send a second message which includes a bit.ly link to the dating site I'm promoting. I see that this is working properly when initially setup but after about 12 hours, Verizon carrier (and maybe some other carriers but I can only check Verizon) blocks my second message (the one with the link).
Does anyone know why this happens and if there is a work around via cloaking the link further? Is it through users marking the message as spam or because Verizon is crawling the link and banning the message?
Thank you! And if anyone has questions on SMS or my setup please feel free to ask.
why would you use bitly?
I use bitly mostly to shorten the link, as my aff link it too long for sms. I could do a domain redirect but if this issue occurs then I'd just be wasting money on purchasing new domains.
I'm no expert in SMS traffic, but if these kind of stuff happens what I would do is register bunch of domains and send them our randomly.
If you use bit.ly over and over then it looks like they are just blocking the exact URL, not the domain itself.
In this case you could just make multiple bit.ly links, but better to automate that and setup your own self-hosted link shortener.
Hello, you have to change domains every 8 hours, also you have to setup several variations of script...
Originally Posted by kevinwyncrest
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