How to Create a QR Code (for a website link)

Hello to the people .

My name is Robert and I'll show you how to create a QR code for a website link , any social media or just in general , any website , you'll be able to change the color of the QR code , add your logo and at the end , I'll show you how to track if somebody scans the QR code , everything I'll show you is totally free punch .

Let's start by going to this URL www QR code dash monkey dot com .

I'll leave a direct link in the description too on this page .

You'll notice you have a few different options .

So you have the URL option if you're linking to your website , but you also have text , email , phone S MS and so on .

There's quite a lot of different options here .

Cool ones .

Like you can share example , contact details with the QR code .

If somebody scans that QR code , they'll just directly download the contact details .

So they don't need to fill in your name and phone number and so on .

So let's start by adding a UL here .

So I'll go to my website and I'll grab the UL of the page .

I want uh people to land once they scan the QR code , and I'll enter the U L here , I'll paste it just in here .

You could also enable statistics and edit ability , but that's a premium feature .

So if you're interested in that , just keep in mind that it's possible .

So then let's set some colors to this one because black is a bit boring .

So I'm gonna keep it to single color and I'm gonna choose something else like red .

Uh Maybe I'll go with the blue , something like this or you could just enter directly the hex code .

Uh If you know if you have a brand color already .

Now to see the changes here , we just need to click on the create QR code and it's gonna generate a new one like that .

Now it's blue .

All right looks good like that .

Then I can add a logo .

For example , you could just go with the social media icons here .

So youtube , if I generate the QR code again , you can see the youtube logo will be in the middle , but actually you can also upload your own .

So if I choose this one , so now I need to create the code here again and you can see that my logo appears there .

So super cool thing , then you can also customize the design a little bit , you can add a bit different body shape .

So let's try that .

If you generate it , you can see the , the squares inside the girl code change a little bit .

It doesn't change anything else except aesthetics .

So you can play around with this .

I'm gonna just keep it to this one and you can also change the I frame shapes .

So if I change it to this kind of uh uh thought you can see these change and same thing , I can change the uh eyeball itself .

Let's generate it , you can see .

So now both of them are in this shape .

Now , once you're happy with everything , I would download it in PNG and also SVG .

Now , right now it's set to 1000 by 1000 .

If you need the big one , just download it like that .

So you can see here if I download this PNG , it's gonna generate the girl code and save it in your files .

You can see it here .

If I now click on it , you can see it's a huge image and it saved it nicely like this .

Now , if you wanna place this outdoors , then I would also download the SVG and use that because it's very file and it will scale up to as big as you want .

So there's no limit on that one .

Let's test the QR code with a real phone .

So if I use my phone to scan the code , you can see it shows me a link to go to the CRL .

And if I tap on it , it will go to my website in case your phone is not recognizing the QR code by default , check the video description for a tutorial how to enable it on iphones or Androids .

Now , obviously , once you place this QR code somewhere , you might want to know how many people actually use it for that , you have a few different options .

So first option is to use the premium service from QR code , Buke .

And that way you'll be able to just uh see how many people scan your QR code .

But there's also a few different ways you can go around that .

You could use uh L short like bit to actually just uh use it for statistics .

So you enter a bit link into the QR code and then it will redirect from bit to your website or if it's your website and you're using Google Analytics , you could use the UTM parameters that are already default in Google Analytics .

So how you do that is this website ?

I'll leave a link in the description and then you just enter your page L then you can add a campaign source .

I'm gonna just add here QR code and campaign medium as well .

And then the campaign name in this case for me is summer sale leaflet .

So this way I know where people came from and once you're happy with all of these settings , you can just come here , grab this URL , so copy , copy it and now I could come here and place it as a as a , the URL , you can see it adds a lot of parameters here at the end of your URL .

But that's how it's supposed to be .

Now , I can generate the QR code again .

And if I use this QR code and somebody scans it and comes to my website , I'll be able to see in Google analytics this .

So I'm here on my phone and I'm gonna scan this code .

You can see it now , I can open Safari .

It goes to my website like this .

It looks completely normal to the user .

But then if I show you how it looks like in G A , it looks like this .

So if you're in Google analytics and in real time and traffic sources , you'll see that you have the QR code .

Now here I just landed there .

It's in the last 30 minutes .

That's why it shows up here .

And then later on , you can also see it in the acquisition campaigns and then all campaigns you'll be able to later on uh filter out the QR code here right now .

It doesn't appear because it's early still since you've created your first QR code .

Now , you need to make sure that you make a good first impression when people land on your website and the easiest way to do that is to use high quality images .

I'll show you my favorite free websites in this video right here .