title: Smart Deep Links Guide description: Complete guide to Smart Deep Links for app developers and mobile marketers keywords: smart deep links, deep linking, app install attribution, deferred deep linking, Appgain.io tags: [deep linking, attribution, mobile marketing, app install] author: Appgain.io Team date: 2024-01-01
Smart Deep Links Guide
📚 Related Documentation
- *Setup Guides*: New Project Setup | Dashboard Configuration
- *SDK Integration*: Android SDK | iOS SDK | Flutter SDK
- *How-To*: Create Smart Deep Links | Custom Domain Configuration
- *Marketing*: Marketing Automation | Push Notifications
- *API*: REST API
What is a Smart Deep link?
Short links Allows app developers and mobile marketers to create single link that sends user to a certain page inside an app and trace every step in user journey from click , install to recurrent deep link opens with built in detailed analytics.
Features
- App Install Detection: detects if the user has your app already installed or not , with deferred deep linking the user screen flow will continue to the target screen even if app was just installed .
- App Install Attribution: Detect each user acquisition channel ,thanks to our SDK matching algorithm you can identify from where you got highest LTV App users
- App Install Detection/Attribution: for any link based campaign , like traffic campaigns .
- Location Aware: Detects user's location, device and OS , and log each link click user location ,device and OS and browser and from where he reached (referral).
- Cross Platform: Works on PC & mobile even if your app is not installed, opposite to standard deep links which works only on mobiles have your app.
- Customizable for better CTR: weather you want to use custom sub domain (YourName.appgain.io) to domain branding (Yourname.com) .
- User flow routing: Route user flow to a page inside the app , even if its not installed.
- Contextual routing: Any routing action can be defined either per platform(ios, android , desktop) or per location.
- Detailed attribution Analytics:
- hits PER platform
- hits growth over time , per day, per hour , per month
- hits per country
- hits per browser
- hits per browser
- app installs: users that didn't has the app and install it from the smart deep link
- deep link open: users that already has the app and opened the link
- app user Id for each user opened the link and install the app
- refers: from the site the leads to this link
- Works with /without mobile app
- Cross platform: work on PC, or mobile
- Social Media Preview:
- preview its content on social media share , for better CTR
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customizable social media appearance
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Deep Linking Standards Ready:
- Complaint with iOS Universal Links, Firebase Dynamic Links, Facebook App Links.
- Easy Online Editor: easy to use UI to create the links and define its primary and fallback actions per platform.
- Robust Rest API: link creation automation with SDK integration or Rest API
- URL Shortener format: https://4all.appgain.io/s/bWBee
- Deferred Deep Links: trace app installs via matching
Last updated: July 27, 2025 22:05:55