The payout programme opens when you reach 10,000 unique valid views across your links. Below that, an application is dropped. Here is how people who already share links get there without inventing an audience.
Do not start from zero
KooLink does not find you readers. It meters the ones you already have.
Take the raw URLs you already paste:
- YouTube / TikTok descriptions
- Telegram or WhatsApp channel posts
- A blog, newsletter, or resource page
- A pinned tweet or Threads post that actually gets taps
Replace them with a kool.ink short link from a signed-in account. Same destination. Now the clicks count toward the gate and toward the estimate.
A guest link (no account) will redirect. It will not earn and it will not move the 10,000.
Where clicks actually happen
A link in a bio is a souvenir. A link in the body of a post is a door. Put the short URL next to the reason someone should open it.
Telegram and WhatsApp will unfurl the link. That preview is not a view. The tap after the preview is.
If you have 500 real clicks a day, you are at the gate in about three weeks. If you have 50 a day, it is closer to seven months. The dashboard progress bar is the only number that matters. Refreshing your own link will not help.
What to skip
- Buying "traffic" or click exchanges. We filter the obvious stuff. What slips through still is not an audience you can keep.
- Shortening twenty tiny URLs instead of the two people actually click. The gate is unique valid views, not number of codes.
- Asking friends to smash refresh. Same network, same burst, same discard.
While you wait
The estimate accrues from view one. At $3.50 per 1,000 valid views, 10,000 views is about $35 on the clock before you can apply. That is small on purpose. The gate is a "this is real traffic" check, not a wealth test.
Referrals: if you send other publishers in, you get 10% of what they earn, for life, after they are paying. That does not replace your 10,000.
How to apply
When the bar fills, open the dashboard Payouts tab and apply. We look at the account. We do not take a below-threshold form.
Payouts themselves are still rolling out. Approval means you are in the programme. Withdrawals start when payouts go live, at the minimums on payout rates (PayPal $5, Wise $20, Payoneer or wire $500).
After you are in
Keep using the same links. There is no reset. Archive a link if you want it off the dashboard; that does not erase the views already counted.
If you stall under 10,000, the honest fix is more places you already publish, not a new shortener. KooLink is a meter. The audience is the job.
Start at signup if you have not made an account yet.