You will then be sent back to the main dashboard where you can see both the long and shortened Bit.ly link versions. Then, click the “Create” button at the bottom the page. Then paste that link in the ‘Paste Long URL’ section. Take the link that we created on Share Link Generator and click ‘Create Bitlink’ button in the top right-hand corner. Once you create an account, you will be sent to the main dashboard where you can create links. There are multiple tools you can use to increase social shares on Kickstarter, but Bit.ly is on that’s popular and easy to use. If you want, you can tag yourself by using can test this link by copying and pasting the URL-only link in a browser window. The prompt prepares a tweet for the user including the content you write in this section. It should prompt you to share the page on Facebook.įor Twitter, you need to add the copy that you want to show by default in the ‘Your awesome tweet’ field. You should test this link by copying and pasting into your browser.

The ‘URL only’ is the URL text that you will copy. You can go to to create the links. Using the Facebook section, add the link to your Kickstarter campaign in the top section. Then click ‘Create the Link!’. We have previously outlined tools to help increase social shares.įor this example, we are going to use Share Link Generator for the links and Bit.ly for link tracking. Once you have downloaded the files, you need to create specific campaign links that we can use to prompt the user to share and track how many shares were created. The images can be downloaded here: Kickstarter Social Share Images.

If you don’t have photoshop, you can use Canva to create your Kickstarter graphics. The most important thing to remember is for full-width images you want the images to be 680px wide. If you are making your own, be sure you optimize your Kickstarter images.

You can download Facebook and Twitter CTAs templates here. The social media CTA’s are shown on the campaign page and when clicked users are asked to share the campaign. Pebble is frequently looked up to for launching some of the best Kickstarter campaigns. I first saw Pebble using these CTAs on one of their campaigns. In this post, we will provide free, downloadable CTA templates and show you how to upload them to your campaign. A great tactic to get more social shares on your Kickstarter campaign is to add calls to actions (CTA) for major social media accounts.