Link in bio for YouTubers who earn from affiliate links

A good link in bio for a YouTuber who earns from affiliate links credits every sale to the video that sent the viewer. Most link-in-bio tools only count clicks, and most affiliate networks only report sales by link, so neither tells you which video made the money. You fix that by giving each video its own short address and letting your networks report sales back to the tool.

Why clicks mislead YouTubers

Clicks tell you what got attention. Commission tells you what paid. They often point at different videos.

Here is a made-up example with round numbers. A trending review gets 900 clicks and $36 in commission. An older tutorial gets 150 clicks and $90. By clicks, you would make more trend videos. By earnings per click (EPC), the tutorial earns $0.60 per click and the trend video earns $0.04. That is a 15x difference you can't see without sales tied to videos.

The same goes for links. A $30 product with a high conversion rate can out-earn a $400 product that people click to browse and never buy.

The setup

1. Give each video a word

Each video gets a short word, such as vyrl.at/yourname/storm. Say it on camera ("everything's at vyrl dot at slash yourname slash storm") and put it at the top of that video's description. Viewers land on your normal page, and every click and sale from that visit is credited to the video.

This matters most for Shorts. YouTube stopped making links in Shorts descriptions and comments clickable on August 31, 2023. A word you say out loud is the only path from a Short that still works, apart from your channel profile links.

2. Use a share link for each place

Put vyrl.at/yourname/yt in your channel profile links, the ones shown near the Subscribe button. Use a different share link anywhere else you post your page. Share links combine with video words, so vyrl.at/yourname/storm/yt tells you both the video and the place.

3. Connect your affiliate networks

Sales come back by server postback. In Vyrl you connect a network and get a postback URL to paste into that network's settings. Vyrl adds the network's sub ID to each click (subId1 on Impact, sid on CJ, clickref on Awin, sub1 on Everflow), so leave that parameter out of the link you paste. Setup guides: Impact, CJ, Awin, Everflow.

Amazon has no postbacks. You download the Earnings report from Associates Central and upload it. Rows match to clicks by sub tag, and importing the same report twice doesn't double count. See Amazon sales by video.

4. Test once

Tap your own Vyrl link, then send a test conversion from the network. It shows in revenue within a minute, credited to that click.

What to put where

Always share a Vyrl address, never the network's raw affiliate link. A raw link skips Vyrl, so the sale can't be matched to a click or a video.

What you'll see

The dashboard shows commission and EPC by video, by link and by place. You can sort videos by money earned instead of views. A live click feed shows clicks as they happen, and a daily email sums up the previous day's revenue.

Videos keep earning long after the views slow down. The per-video view makes it easy to spot an old tutorial that still sells, and worth updating, or a recent upload that got views but no sales.

Questions in the comments

Viewers ask the same things under every video: what mic, what lens, which version. The "Ask me" assistant on your page answers from your own video transcripts. It cites the moment in the video, links only products you confirmed, and shows your affiliate disclosure. If you haven't covered something, it says so instead of guessing.

What Vyrl doesn't do

• It doesn't replace your network's reporting. Networks approve, reverse and pay out sales. Vyrl shows which video and link earned.
• It doesn't see sales made through YouTube's own shopping features, AdSense or memberships. Those happen inside YouTube.
• Postbacks work with Impact, CJ, Awin and Everflow, plus Amazon by report upload. For other networks, Vyrl counts clicks per video, but the sales stay in that network's dashboard.
• It doesn't sell your own digital products with a checkout. Link to wherever you sell them.

Moving from Linktree takes a minute: paste your username and Vyrl copies your links. See importing from Linktree.

Pricing

Vyrl is free forever for one page, unlimited links and click analytics by link and source. Revenue per video, postbacks, the AI assistant and the daily revenue email are on the Creator plan: $4/month, or $3.20/month billed yearly in the US, and less in many countries. You keep 100% of your commission. See pricing or create your page.