🧠 Are Smart Links Actually "Smart"?

It seems that every affiliate network has the "smartest" smart link, but WTF?

Every time I see some affiliate network talk about how their smart link is amazing I can't do anything but roll my eyes.

If you're new to affiliate marketing a smart link sounds like a great idea. You just grab one single link, send traffic to it, and you can make money.

While it's true you can make money directly promoting smart links, most people won't.

In my opinion, smart links are probably one of the greatest inventions affiliate networks have come up with in the past decade. They convince people to run traffic to their link and get free testing on their offers that no affiliate would ever probably run in their life.

Most smart links are complete garbage. 🗑

When you run a smart link you'll mostly never know what offers are converting, which means you'll never be able to break that offer into its own campaign so you could optimize it better with the traffic you're buying.

In many cases, your traffic will just be rotated through the various offers the affiliate network put in the link. There's no magic optimization algorithm that's going