Understanding tracked links

A link is your destination - the affiliate offer, product page, or site you want people to land on, plus its tracking settings (UTM, geo/device rules, expiration).

A short URL is the actual clickable address people follow (e.g. golo.to/mic-main). A single link can have more than one short URL - most often one per video you attach it to - so you can tell which placement drove a click, even though they all lead to the same destination.

This is why "creating a link" and "attaching it to a video" are two separate actions: the link holds the destination, the short URL (created when you attach it somewhere) is what actually gets tracked and clicked.