Affiliate link shortener with click tracking.
Turn a 140-character tracking URL into linx.ly/headphones-yt. The affiliate parameters pass through untouched, each placement keeps its own click count, and the destination stays yours to change.
YouTube412
Pinterest268
Instagram134Create a trackable affiliate short link
Paste the affiliate URL into our link shortener, name the back-half per placement, and post it.
Paste the affiliate URL
Straight from the network, with the placement already written into its subID field.
Name it per placement
linx.ly/headphones-yt for the video, linx.ly/headphones-ig for the bio page. Same destination, separate counts.
Read clicks against sales
Clicks per link in Linxly, commissions per subID in the network. The two line up per placement.
Why shorten an affiliate link?
The network gives you one number per link and stops at the sale. Everything about where the click came from has to be built into the link before you post it.
Six placements, one number
Post the same affiliate URL in a video description, a bio page and a newsletter and the network reports all three as one figure. A separate short link per placement is what pulls them apart.
The link outlives the product
Products go out of stock, catalogues get restructured and programs close. A raw affiliate URL keeps sending people to a dead page forever, because you are not going to edit a video description from two years ago.
A tracking URL reads as spam
A link stuffed with tag=, subid= and clickref= is visibly watching the reader. It also wraps over three lines on a phone and gets cut off mid-parameter in a caption.
Clicks are yours, sales are theirs
The network decides what it shows you about conversions. The click count sits on your side of the redirect, which makes it the one figure that stays yours when a program changes its reporting.
Where affiliate short links earn their keep
Six placements, and what changes in each one when the link is short, named and counted separately.
YouTube descriptions
A readable slug under a video reads as a recommendation. A 140-character tracking URL reads as paid placement, which is true, but you do not have to lead with it.
Instagram bio page
One link field, so the answer is a bio page with a card per product. Point each card at its own short link — the page counts visits, not products.
Pins keep sending traffic for years, and the ones working hardest were saved to boards you cannot edit. A repointable link matters more here than anywhere else on this list.
Newsletters
Your own count for a channel the network reports as direct traffic. Check the program first — Amazon Associates bans affiliate links in email whatever format they are in.
TikTok bio and comments
Short enough to read out loud and retype from a screenshot, which is how a good share of TikTok traffic actually arrives.
Print, packaging and events
Every link generates a QR code automatically — a market stall, a workshop handout, a box insert — and scans land in the same click data as taps.
What an affiliate short link reports back
Not one blended total. Every click is logged with where it came from, on what device, and in which browser.
Clicks are counted at the redirect, before the visitor reaches the merchant, so the figure is yours regardless of what the program reports back. Requests from crawlers, preview bots and headless browsers are filtered out before a click is recorded.
Built for links already out there
Short is the easy part. These are the things that matter once the link is sitting in a description, a pin and an email you already sent.
Name the back-half
linx.ly/headphones-yt, linx.ly/headphones-ig, linx.ly/headphones-news. One slug per placement, readable in a caption and typeable from a screenshot.
Editable destination
Repoint the slug at a new product, a new merchant or a review page of your own. Every video, pin and post already published follows without being touched.
UTM per placement
Tag traffic heading to pages you own. For traffic heading to a merchant, mirror the same placement label in the network's subID field.
Real clicks only
Crawlers, preview bots and headless browsers are screened out before a click is recorded, so the number you compare against sales is people.
Expiry and password
Give a seasonal offer an end date and send the late clicks somewhere that still makes sense, or keep a link behind a password for a private list.
QR code for every link
Generated automatically for flyers, packaging and stall signage, and reported separately from taps so you can see which one worked.
Using Bitly for affiliate links?
bit.ly is the link most people recognise, and recognition is the part that matters least here. What decides it for affiliate work is whether you can name a back-half per placement, repoint a link after the product disappears, and read the clicks split by country, device and referrer.
