An adult smartlink is one network link that picks the offer for each click; a direct offer is one program you chose yourself. Use both: send the clicks you understand to direct offers, where you get the program’s full rate, and let the smartlink catch the rest, so no click earns nothing. This page is part of my adult affiliate marketing guide, and below is how smartlinks pay, which adult networks run them, and how to decide which click goes where.
What a smartlink is
A smartlink is one URL that sends each visitor to whichever offer the network currently thinks converts best for them. CrakRevenue’s page says its smartlink routes “based on location, device type, language and traffic type”. You send the click and the network does the matching. CrakRevenue’s smartlinks are the best-known ones in adult, and for a beginner they answer the hardest early question, “which offer?”, one click at a time.
A smartlink is different from a fallback offer. A fallback is a fixed backup list: when a visitor’s country isn’t accepted by the offer you picked, the network sends them to the next offer in a set order. CrakRevenue’s own guide gives the example of a MyFreeCams fallback running through set backup options in order, where a smartlink picks the best offer for the click “regardless of rank”. A direct offer with a fallback is still a direct offer. A smartlink hands the whole decision to the network.
How an adult smartlink pays
A smartlink pays whatever the offer it showed pays. CrakRevenue calls this Multi-CPA: “With the Cam Smartlink, your payout type depends on the offer displayed to your users”, so one conversion can be a pay-per-lead signup, the next a pay-per-sale and the next a revshare customer. Three things follow from that:
- Payouts per conversion jump around. Judge a smartlink on earnings per click (EPC) or per thousand clicks, never on the payout of a single conversion.
- You earn the network’s rate for each brand. If the smartlink sends a click to LiveJasmin, you are paid CrakRevenue’s LiveJasmin terms, which are lower than AWEmpire’s direct revshare.
- Revshare is possible, but you don’t choose it. Some smartlink conversions land on revshare offers and pay for as long as that offer’s terms say. You can’t steer your best traffic into lifetime deals the way you can with a direct link.
Direct rate vs the network rate
This is what a routing layer costs, in the rates a network lists for brands you can also join directly. CrakRevenue’s figures are from its cam offers page, checked 29 September 2026.
| Brand | Direct program | Through CrakRevenue |
|---|---|---|
| LiveJasmin | 35 to 45% revshare (AWEmpire) | $130 PPS and 10.24% lifetime revshare |
| Stripchat | 20% lifetime revshare (Stripcash) | 16.25% lifetime revshare, $168 PPS or $3.50 DOI |
| MyFreeCams | 20% revshare (MFC’s own program) | 18% lifetime revshare |
On revshare, going direct pays more on the big brands you can join yourself. The network’s PPS options are the exception: a flat $130 or $168 per sale is money now, and a direct revshare needs time to build up. And some brands, like MyFreeCams, only exist through a network, so there’s no direct rate to compare with.
Which adult networks run smartlinks
These are the adult smartlinks I could confirm on each network’s own pages on 29 September 2026. Payout minimums and schedules are in each network’s terms; I’ve listed them where the page states them.
| Network | How it pays | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| CrakRevenue | Multi-CPA: the payout of whichever offer was shown | Cam and dating smartlinks (its 2022 guide also lists gay, VOD, adult gaming and general adult). Net 30 by default, $100 minimum. |
| Stripcash | Your Stripcash terms; every destination is Stripchat | A one-brand smartlink: it picks the landing page and creative, and the advertiser is always Stripchat. Paid twice a month. |
| Lospollos | Per conversion; the best-paying bid wins each click | Dating by default; cams, gay dating and adult games on request. Weekly on Tuesdays, $100 minimum ($1,000 by bank transfer). |
| Mobidea | Not stated on the launch page | Adult dating smartlink launched 22 September 2026, with more than 200 dating offers. |
Two I looked for and didn’t find. AdultForce‘s public pages (home page, FAQ and offer pages) describe picking offers such as Brazzers, MyDirtyHobby, Men.com and Nutaku one at a time, and I found no smartlink there. AWEmpire lists a mobile and Smart TV redirect tool among its promo tools, but that stays inside its own brands and isn’t a multi-offer smartlink. For which networks to join in the first place, see the adult CPA networks guide.
What comes with a smartlink
Read the smartlink settings before you put one on a site you care about. CrakRevenue’s smartlink guide says “extra earnings” are switched on by default: pop-unders behind the browser and “back offers” shown when the visitor tries to leave. That’s extra money on pop and tube traffic. On a review site or a social profile it can annoy the readers you worked to earn, so decide on purpose whether to keep it on. The same guide says the Cam smartlink needs “traffic of the highest quality”, so bot-heavy or incentivized clicks are a quick way to get flagged.
You also give up the landing page. The network picks the pre-lander along with the offer, so you can’t match it to your page’s promise the way you can with a direct offer’s own landers.
What going direct gets you
- The full rate. A direct program, such as Chaturbate’s 20% lifetime, Streamate’s flat 35%, LiveJasmin’s 35 to 45% or Stripcash’s 20%, with no routing layer in between.
- Brand and intent match. A visitor reading your LiveJasmin review wants LiveJasmin. Sending them “smartly” somewhere else wastes the intent you already earned.
- Attribution that adds up. Lifetime revshare, and AWE’s Lifetime+ switch, only pay off when your traffic keeps landing on the same program.
- Room to negotiate. Volume on one direct program is something you can take to an affiliate manager and ask for a better rate. Volume spread across a smartlink gives you nothing to point to.
When the smartlink wins
- Mixed or unknown traffic. A new traffic source, a general adult page, a link spot whose audience you can’t predict. Let the algorithm sort what you can’t segment.
- Tier-3 and unlisted countries. Your direct cam offer may pay nothing at all for Bangladesh (it is outside Chaturbate’s tier list); a smartlink will at least try other offers for that click. The traffic tiers guide has the full tier tables.
- Day one. Before you know what a converting click looks like, a smartlink plus sub-IDs gives you the data that tells you.
- Leftover clicks. The footer link, the exit click, the country your main offer doesn’t pay for. Anything you’d otherwise waste.
- Offers that switch off. Advertisers cap or pause offers when budgets run out. A smartlink moves the click to a live offer; a direct link to a paused offer earns nothing until you notice.
When direct wins
- Content with intent. Reviews, comparisons, brand-name searches. The reader has already chosen, so your job is a clean handoff to that program.
- Segmented tier-1 traffic. If you know it’s a US buyer or an EU premium visitor, route it yourself to the program your page is about, then check the sub-ID numbers against the smartlink before you call it a win.
- Anything you plan to scale. Serious volume deserves the full rate, a direct relationship and something to negotiate with.
Smartlinks vs direct offers: running both
A sensible setup is: direct offers on every segment you understand, the smartlink as the catch-all underneath. Your review pages link their programs directly. Your geo-routing, set up in a tracker (see the tracking software guide), sends the countries you know to the offers that pay for them. Everything else (odd countries, clicks you can’t classify, overflow) goes to the smartlink instead of a dead end. That way no click earns zero.
One measurement rule makes this work: give the smartlink its own sub-IDs and compare its EPC per segment against your direct offers every month. Where the smartlink beats your hand-picked offer, your segmentation is wrong: fix the routing or give that segment to the smartlink. Where direct wins by a wide margin, scale it. Let the dashboard settle it.
If you run a tracker, set up the network’s postback for the smartlink too, and pass the payout amount back along with the click ID. Because smartlink payouts change from one conversion to the next, a tracker that assumes a fixed payout per conversion will show you the wrong profit. Lospollos, for example, sends the click ID in {cid} and the payout in {sum}.
Where to start
If you’re new, start with a smartlink. It’s the fastest way to your first data and your first commissions (the beginner’s guide covers that sequence). Add direct programs as soon as part of your traffic has a clear identity, and keep both: direct offers where they earn more, the smartlink for everything else, and sub-IDs to tell you which is which. For which networks and programs to use, start with the adult CPA networks guide.
FAQ
Is a CPA smartlink good for SEO traffic?
For pages about one brand, no: link that program directly. For general pages and leftover clicks it’s fine, and CrakRevenue lists SEO and webmaster traffic among the top traffic types for its dating smartlink. Turn off pop-unders and back offers if they don’t suit your readers.
Can I use a smartlink on social media traffic?
Yes, networks accept it: CrakRevenue’s guide names social media as a top traffic type for its cam and general adult smartlinks. Check whether the platform itself allows adult links before you post one.
Do smartlinks pay more than direct offers?
Networks say so on their own sales pages, and I have no independent data either way. What the published rates do show is that a network’s revshare on brands you can join directly is lower than the direct rate (see the table above), so test with sub-IDs rather than trusting either side.
Update log
- 29 September 2026: checked against program terms. Corrected the tier-3 example, replaced unsupported claims about direct offers and “time of day” routing, and added how smartlinks pay, a table of direct rates against CrakRevenue’s for the same brands, the adult networks whose smartlinks I could confirm, pop-unders and back offers, postback setup and the FAQ.
Where the facts in this guide come from: methodology.