How it differs from a link page
A link page lists your other addresses: your newsletter, your shop, a piece you published elsewhere. You add each link by hand, you remove it by hand, and every one of them sends the visitor away.
In a newspaper, the byline is the line under the headline that names the writer. Your typoza.me page stands behind yours: a profile and links, as on a link page, and under them the articles you publish on Typoza, added as you publish them.
The address is typoza.me/yourname. That domain serves writer pages and nothing else: no sign-in, no dashboard, no workspace sites.
What the page shows
It reads your default profile, the one that belongs to no workspace.
- Your name, your handle, your avatar and your banner.
- Your bio, your location and your own website.
- Your social links, in the order you set. Add your Mastodon profile and Mastodon can mark the link to this page as verified.
- Your twelve latest articles, grouped by the workspace that published each one, with each workspace's name linking to its site. The full archive stays on those sites.
- Your badges, unless you hide them.
- A button to write to you. The message reaches your inbox, and your address never appears on the page.
typoza.me/your-name
Your name
One line about what you write.
- Mastodon
- GitHub
- Bluesky
Logbook
- What rebuilding my site taught me
- Two weeks without writing
The Thursday Review
- Notes on a slow interface
What it never shows
Your drafts, articles scheduled for later, anything from a deleted workspace, and the email address or phone number of your account.
Why it keeps itself up to date
Typoza builds this page from your profile and your workspaces, so there is no list to keep.
- Publish an article and the page shows it. There is nothing to paste.
- Unpublish an article and it leaves the page too.
- Edit your name, bio or links in your profile, and the page follows.
- Articles stay grouped by workspace, since one account can write in several: a logbook, a client's publication and a company blog each keep their own heading.
- Every link leads to a site you publish on: a workspace's name to its home page, a title to its article, on the workspace's own domain when it has one.
How it compares with Linktree, Beacons and Bio.link
If your links point to other platforms, such as a shop, a podcast or a video channel, a link page does that job. The difference shows once you write: this page holds your articles too.
| What we compare | Typoza | A link page |
|---|---|---|
| What the page holds | Your profile, your links, and your latest articles under them. | Your profile and a list of links. |
| Who keeps it current | Publishing does: the list changes when you publish or unpublish. | You do, link by link, each time something changes. |
| Where a visitor goes next | To the sites you publish on, under their own domain from the Collective plan. | To whichever platform you linked to. |
| What a search engine finds | A profile marked up as a person, your bio, and the titles of your latest articles. | A list of outbound links, with little text of its own. |
| Whose address it is | Ours: typoza.me/yourname, as theirs is theirs. It links to your writing. | Theirs. |
These rows compare the format, not any one product: each tool's features and prices change, and this table would fall behind them. If one of them suits you better, use it.
How to get yours, for free
The page comes with every Typoza account, on every plan, the free one included. There is no separate sign-up and nothing to install.
- Create an account. No card needed, and your page exists from that moment.
- Choose your handle. Typoza makes one from your name at sign-up: typoza.me/yourname. To change it, open Compte, then Profil, then Adresse publique (the dashboard is in French for now). Lowercase letters, digits and hyphens, three to sixty characters.
- Fill in your profile. Name, bio, avatar, banner, and links to wherever else you publish, in the order you want them shown.
- Publish when you are ready. Your articles join the page as you publish them, whichever of your workspaces they appear in.
Before your first article
The address works from the day you sign up. Until you publish, it shows your profile, your links and a line saying that nothing is out yet.
Until then, it asks search engines neither to index it nor to follow its links. A name and a portrait are not what people search for, and links from an account that has written nothing vouch for nothing. Your first article opens the page to search engines, with nothing to set.
So you can share the address on your first day, while you try Typoza. It becomes a byline page with your first article.
What it does not do
The limits, so you know them before you sign up.
- No design of its own. It uses Typoza's default theme, light or dark as each reader's setting asks, and your workspace themes stay on your workspace sites. The few words the page adds itself, such as the heading over your articles and the contact button, are in French for now.
- No custom domain. The page lives at typoza.me/yourname and nowhere else.
- No click statistics. Typoza does not count visits to the page, and its links go straight to their destination, with no redirect in between to count clicks.
- One page per person. A project gets its own workspace, with its own site.
Questions
Is it free?
Yes, whatever your plan. The page is part of the account, and no plan adds or removes anything on it.
Do I need to blog on Typoza to have one?
No. The page exists from sign-up and shows your profile and your links. The article list fills in once you publish on Typoza.
Can I turn it off?
Yes. In Compte, then Profil, untick “Votre page de rédacteur”. The address then answers like a handle that never existed: no empty page under your name, and nothing for a search engine to keep. The page is on by default, because everything it shows is already public on your author pages.
Will my email address be on it?
No. The contact button passes the visitor's message and email address on to you. Yours reaches them only if you reply, from your own mailbox.
What happens if I change my handle?
Every address built on it changes: this page, and your author page on each of your sites. The old addresses stop working and nothing redirects them, so settle on a handle before you share it.
Can I use my own domain for it?
Not for this page. It gathers several workspaces, so it cannot sit under the domain of any one of them. Your workspaces can use your own domain from the Collective plan, and the page links to them there.
Do search engines index it?
Yes, once you have published. The page gives them a person and a profile in structured data, a canonical address, and a share image taken from your banner, or from your avatar if you have no banner. Turn the page off and the address answers “not found”, so search engines drop it at their next visit.
The post you keep putting off
Write its first paragraph today. The post stays a draft until you publish it, and no reader sees it before then.
Free to start, no card. You can export your posts at any time, on every plan.