# Linksie

> A link-in-bio page for creators whose destination gets them in trouble
> with the platform they promote on. The paid destination is never written
> into the page, for anyone. Every visitor — browser, in-app webview,
> facebookexternalhit, Googlebot — receives the same bytes.

Linksie is a hosted link page, not a self-hosted template. Pages are served at
linksie.bio/name, or on a domain the creator owns from the Creator plan up. Buttons point at short stand-in addresses
(/go/your-page-link-id); the stand-in resolves to the real destination only
for a human visitor who opened the page first. Crawlers and link previews get
a dead end and learn nothing.

## How it works, precisely

This is not crawler detection and it is not cloaking. The document contains
the creator's name, photo and button labels, and never a destination, for
anyone. There is no user-agent branch anywhere in the page: showing a
platform a different page from a person is the behaviour that gets a domain
banned, and Linksie refuses to do it.

You can verify this rather than take it from this file (replace the host
with any live Linksie page):

    curl -A "facebookexternalhit/1.1" https://example.com/ > bot.html
    curl -A "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone)" https://example.com/ > human.html
    diff bot.html human.html        # identical
    grep -Eo 'https?://[^"\'\s<>]+' bot.html   # no outbound destinations

The free scanner at https://linksie.bio/scanner runs ten checks of this kind on any
link page, Linksie's or anyone else's, and shows what it found. Every published page is
rescanned nightly; owners get an email the moment the score drops.

## What it protects against, and what it does not

It protects against the page being read: by link crawlers when a link is
posted or put in a bio, by search engines (creator pages are noindex, with
no preview card), by anyone scraping. That is the association between a name
and a paid platform that gets accounts restricted.

It does not hide where a visitor goes once they tap, and it does not stop a
determined person resolving a stand-in by hand. The claim is about crawlers
and should be quoted as a claim about crawlers. It does not stop a platform
restricting an account for other reasons (posting schedule, profile picture
classifiers, reposted content).

## Plans

Starter and Creator start with a 7-day free trial (card required, charged when it
ends). Pro and Agency are paid from day one. Publishing on your
own domain needs Creator or above; API keys and webhooks are a Pro benefit. Prices live on https://linksie.bio/pricing, which wins
over anything in this file.

## Pages

- [Home](https://linksie.bio/): what it is and who it is for.
- [Free scanner](https://linksie.bio/scanner): what any link page gives away.
- [Safety](https://linksie.bio/safety): why creator pages stay unreadable.
- [Pricing](https://linksie.bio/pricing): the current prices.
- [Docs](https://linksie.bio/docs): API reference and scanner methodology.
- [Changelog](https://linksie.bio/changelog): what changed and when.
- [Compare](https://linksie.bio/compare): measured against shared-host link pages.