Leboncoin Link Shortener

Current annonce pages use the shape www.leboncoin.fr/ad/<category>/<id>, for example www.leboncoin.fr/ad/voitures/2883346846 for a car or www.leboncoin.fr/ad/ventes_immobilieres/2915279638 for a property sale. The category slug is the French one used across the site, such as voitures, motos, locations, ventes_immobilieres, or telephones_objets_connectes. Older links in the legacy www.leboncoin.fr/<category>/<id>.htm format still circulate and still resolve. Flyn accepts any of these because it treats the URL as a destination, not as something to parse.

Yes. Flyn passes the entire query string through untouched, so utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, or any other parameter you added arrives at leboncoin exactly as you wrote it. Flyn never inserts its own tags and never rewrites yours. If you use campaign tags to tell your Facebook traffic apart from your WhatsApp traffic, that setup keeps working behind the short link.

Yes, any leboncoin URL works, including a pro shop page such as www.leboncoin.fr/boutique/3903779/ad_auto.htm and search or category pages under /recherche and /c/. Dealers and agencies often prefer this because the shop page keeps working when individual annonces expire and get replaced. One short link on your business cards can then point at your whole current stock. You can still create separate links for individual annonces when you want per listing numbers.

No. Flyn is an independent link shortener with no affiliation with Leboncoin and no API connection to the platform. It works the way any short link works: someone clicks, Flyn records the click, and the browser is redirected straight to the leboncoin page. Nothing is installed on your leboncoin account and nothing about your annonce changes.

Classifieds buyers are rightly cautious, so context matters more than the link itself. Post the short link next to a clear description and your own name or shop name, and people click it the same way they click any other link. Every destination you shorten is checked against Google Safe Browsing, so a flagged page will not go live behind your link. On Pro you can also put your links on your own domain, which reads as far more familiar than a generic shortener.

The free plan gives you real time click counts on every link, plus a QR code on every link. Give each channel its own link and that alone answers the question sellers actually have, like whether the Marseille Facebook group outperforms the Lyon one. Pro adds the per-click breakdown by country, device, browser, and referrer, so you can also see whether people open the annonce on a phone or a desktop, along with unlimited links, up to three custom branded domains, and geo routing.

No, and this is the main reason sellers use a shortener on leboncoin. Open the link in Flyn, paste the new annonce URL as the destination, and save: the short link and its QR code are unchanged. Anyone who saved your link, scanned your window poster, or shared it in a group lands on the new listing. Your click history stays on the same link too, so you can compare the relist against the original.

Yes, every Flyn link comes with a QR code at no cost, and it points at the same short URL. Car sellers stick it on the windscreen, landlords put it on the building notice board, and shops put it in the window so passers by can open the annonce without typing anything. Because the destination is editable, you can reuse the same printed code for the next vehicle or the next flat. Print it large enough to scan from a couple of meters and test it once before you print a batch.

Geo routing on the Pro plan sends visitors from different countries to different destinations, which helps if you run listings on leboncoin for France and something else for visitors from Belgium or Switzerland. Within France itself, the practical approach is one short link per region or per campaign, then compare them in the dashboard. Country, device, and referrer breakdowns are on every link regardless of plan. That is usually enough to see which area is responding.

The free plan gives you 25 new links a month, with real time click counts and a QR code on every one of them. Pro is $9 per month and adds unlimited links, the full analytics breakdown by country, device, browser, and referrer, up to three custom branded domains, and geo routing. Dealers, agencies, and landlords with rolling stock tend to move to Pro for the branded domain, since a link on your own domain looks like your business rather than a generic shortener. You can start free and upgrade whenever the volume justifies it.

No. The short link lives outside leboncoin entirely and only changes how people reach your page from wherever you posted it. Leboncoin still counts the visit as a normal view of your annonce, and the redirect is a standard 301 or 302 that browsers and messaging apps handle without complaint. Nothing about your listing's position, freshness, or bump status changes.

You can, by pointing the link at a leboncoin search or category URL such as www.leboncoin.fr/recherche?text=scooter&category=3 or a filtered category page, which shows everything matching at that moment. That is a good fit for a bio link or a business card where you want one permanent address. For measuring which specific item draws interest, separate links per annonce give you much clearer numbers. Many sellers run both: one catch all link plus per listing links for the items they are actively pushing.

No. Flyn is a full URL shortener that works with any link: Leboncoin, your own website, YouTube, Etsy, affiliate links, PDFs, anything with a URL. This page just shows the Leboncoin use case. Every feature here (click analytics, editable destinations, branded domains, QR codes) applies to every link you shorten.