Bluesky makes it easier for editors to follow referrals

Social network Bluesky, A source open X Rivalhe made a change that will allow the editors to better follow the original reference traffic from plays on their platform. According to A comment by Bluesky employee Emily liu, company is now sending the reference traffic to make “of the subdom to make the publication to follow when visitors to his site came into the Social Network Road.

When clicking on a shared link on Bluesky, you are briefly shows that you are shown as a “GO.bsyky.app” URL “to land in the editor’s domain. This allows the peeling systems of warning to determine that the visitor has arrived from bluesky.

Liu notes in a post in Bluesky that the change has come through the children and reposition in the app but had a hardest time that has been translated into the website traffic. ‘

The editors are an important demographic for bluesky to attract, especially if you go out of becoming a real news source, similar to x.

A number of news entries have already been reported increases In the Bluesky reference traffic, with some too discovered that Bluesky has exceeded the references of other platforms, as the meta musk’s x.

For example, Boston’s globe stated in the November 2022, who was he sees 3x more traffic than bluesky, compared to threadsThe 4,5x higher conversions for paid subcruities. Even in November, Guardian Australia by Editor Dave Earley share that the bluesky traffic at the guardian site was already 2x that of the wires, and bluesky traffic to their seats was higher than X24 reference traffic.

New York times as well as others More small Publishes have also seen a higher user commitment with bluesky.

COO Blues Rose Wang explained By the time the Bluesky references were because “contrast others platform, we don’t define your links.”

His message was a dig to two threads and x, the last one of which changed the way the links appear in their app To encourage more people to post to x directly, instead of the site site. (X owner musk confirmed that algorithm x was designed to optimize the time spent on x, which is why links don’t have “so much attention.”

The market intelligence provider is not noticed that Bluesky generated 38.6 million exit visits In 204 years, tights through a variety of news states, while the threads generated 24.5 million references. However, the Succession has signaled 42% of Direct Threads traffic in their SAF SAPORY, instagram, not publicity “

Techcrough asked Bluesky when he exactly did the change in the links because of his “Go” SUBDomain, as it is not clear on the basis of LIA. The company did not answer our question, but later confirmed the function rolled with the 1.99 of the App last week and a following correction.

After publication, Bluesky account has also published that has now easier for ugly to track the traffic to their sites.

“Starting this week, we still have it easy for the ugly and bluest traffic to be in their sites” for those who settle for analytics of bluesky is go.bsky.app “,

The company worked on reference problems for some time. Last november decided not to advance with another solution to the reference problem that includes an option opt-out. Liu said before this month that the refereher question had been fixed with the The last bluesky update rolled March 10, 2025. She also answered a place on Wednesday to add that the function of reference Just got another bug fix in Monday night to address other problems.

Updated after publication includes bluesky post and confirmation on the new feature.