What is your experience with the clk.sh link shortening service?

[AndersLarsson]

I just released a video where I try out clk.sh.

First, I wanted to see if the service was indexed in Google. I just pick a bunch of link shortening services from a list, one by one, and leverage the reputation of each one. People are looking to know more about them and to see if they are trustworthy.

In some cases, these lists that I use are pretty old, and because of how some of these services work, they will get a bad reputation after a while. Yes, the current video shows you a service that may force you to install programs in order to open up the destination page.

A bad reputation may eventually lead to a deindexed or penalized website. This is why I don't recommend people using services like this. You go against the natural flow.

After that, I checked the reputation on TrustPilot. You can't trust the 5 star reviews on TrustPilot, but the one star ratings definitely have some merit to them in my opinion.

Then I went to BHW and did a quick search. Someone got banned for trying to sneak in a link. Another example of going against the natural flow. Following a natural flow would mean spending effort to create real value, like I try to do in my video.

Then I found another sneaky method to post clk.sh links and similar. To my surprise, I couldn't find anyone getting banned, so I guess the moderator didn't understand the trick. Still, I don't recommend doing it.

Do you know about clk.sh?
Have you ever tried it?
Do they pay out?

Before they pay out, I believe they require a $5 or $10 earn. Because of the rep, I would expect them to not honor a pay out at all, but I don't know really.

I don't think I can post a link here, sorry about that.

 

[Graybeard]

Before they pay out, I believe they require a $5 or $10 earn. Because of the rep, I would expect them to not honor a pay out at all, but I don't know really.

My current tests are showing 30% to 50% are refusing Google-Analytics 3rd party cookies.

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clk.sh

I am assuming that the links are part of a pop or push scheme --that is how they monetize
;; ANSWER SECTION:
clk.sh. 300 IN MX 10 mx.yandex.net.
They give no address but they use a Russian mail server, a cloudflare DNS and SSL/TLS cert

Do the math

 

[AndersLarsson]

They give no address but they use a Russian mail server, a cloudflare DNS and SSL/TLS cert

I know they use a lot of cloned site software. I've come across 2 or 3 others so far. What is funny is that if you search for these services on YouTube, you get people posting their "secret method" of how to make money. Have you noticed that, in most cases, it is a non-English language? So I think these videos are actually the owners of these services that are promoting them in a sneaky way.

 

[Threeseba]

The passage of time doesn't diminish the importance of exercising caution and making informed decisions when it comes to using link shortening services like clk.sh. Your research into the reputation of clk.sh on various platforms, such as TrustPilot and BHW, provides a historical perspective that users can still learn from.
One of the advantages of older discussions like this is that they can serve as a record of how a service has evolved over time. Users can consider your experiences as part of a broader context in evaluating the trustworthiness and reliability of clk.sh.
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