Publish & share
Publishing on LinkMe is immediate — no build queue, no deployment window. When you press publish, the page is live at your address that second. This guide covers what "live" means and every way to put the URL in front of people.
Drafts vs published
Everything you create starts as a draft. Drafts are private: the URL returns not-found to visitors, and nothing appears in your site navigation or archive. Publishing makes the item live; unpublishing returns it to draft without deleting anything.
| State | Visitors see | You see |
|---|---|---|
| Draft | Not found | Full editor + preview |
| Published | The live page | Editor + stats |
| Password-gated | A password prompt (plan permitting) | Editor + stats |
Important
Publishing is always your click. Nothing on LinkMe goes live by itself — the AI assistant drafts, autosave saves, but publish is deliberate.
Where your site is shareable from
Your address works everywhere a link works. The interesting part is the packaging:
- QR codes — the built-in QR studio styles a code for your site (or any page, form or event on it) with your palette and logo. Export PNG for screens, SVG for print. See QR & vCard sharing.
- vCard — a digital business card at
/your-slug/vcardwith a one-tap contact download; its QR encodes the card itself, not just a link. Perfect for the moment someone asks "how do I find you?" - Social previews — pages and posts carry their own title, description and share-card image (with sensible fallbacks), so pasted links unfurl with a real preview rather than a bare URL.
- Shortened links — the URL shortener wraps any destination in a clean, trackable short link with optional passwords and expiry — useful for print and DMs where a long URL looks messy.
A practical sharing checklist
- Open your live site on a phone — most visitors arrive on one.
- Paste the URL into a draft DM to yourself; check the link preview renders the way you want.
- Generate a QR and scan it from arm's length before printing anything.
- Add the link to your existing profiles — the bio link IS the product here.
- Watch the first hours in Analytics — which link gets tapped tells you what visitors actually came for.
Tip
Put the link everywhere once, properly: email signature, social bios, business card (with the QR), CV header. A personal site only compounds when the address is consistently the same one.
If something does not look live
Check Site not publishing in Troubleshooting before anything else — nine times out of ten it is a draft-state or domain-DNS detail with a one-minute fix. If it is genuinely broken on our side, Contacting support gets a human on it with the context you provide.