linkover Explosion Ambassador or Zazzle Pro?

[HoBiNi]

Hi there, I am a Zazzle pro since March 31, 2025 and I am posting on pinterest a lot afiliates sind 2 years. I have 5 pinterest shops with arround 5000 links. I started 2 years ago and had 1 to 9 linkovers per day in the afiliate program. Since April 1, 2025 I get 100-280 linkovers per day. Why is it exploding, because of the Zazzle pro or the ambassador program?  Anyonoe out there, who is experiencing the same?

[NHW]

I've seen the same spike in linkovers since 1 April, and saw a few others mentioning it in one of the threads. I've never posted promoter or ambassador links (without an rf id). I'd also love to know what's causing it.

[ChromaMaven]

I noticed a huge spike the last week in January 2025. It's been like that ever since.

[LMGildersleeve · Accepted solution]

In the grand scheme of things does anyone really know how those numbers are generated? No one from Z has ever said how Linkovers work. One would assume a linkover meant someone came from outside of Zazzle to our product / page via a link we generated. But even this scenario doesn't explain if it is a human visiting the site or a bot crawling a page our links on. Is the link being visited a clean link or one with an rf# attached? No one knows.

From my past experience there is no way to know where visits to our pages come from via our links. Using Google Analytics can tell you so very much about traffic to Zazzle including how many visits are from Google or outside influences too, which link sites your links are bringing in traffic and more. You can even track which of these visits gives you a sale by comparing your earnings. 

In short, the linkover number is meaningless unless you know what it consists of.

[Martin]

It's unlike Zazzle to not make things perfectly clear......Ohhh hang on.🤣

[LMGildersleeve]

@Martinyou always crack me up. 😆

[Zorinda]

I have never understood linkovers. For me there has never seemed to be any positive correlation to anything. So up there with the other Zazzle mysteries like zrank it’s a meaningless stat that causes nothing but heartburn inducing speculation and emotional pretzeling.  I choose to ignore them.  That being said, I just discovered that 1 of my stores at least for the nanosecond now has a zrank of 9. I laughed. Go figure. 

[NHW]

My linkovers went up by 1,000% starting 1 April and I've made 11 referrals so far this month. I only averaged 4 to 5 referrals in previous months, so something has changed for the better, but no idea what.

[PAZP]

That's wonderful! Congratulations. 

[NHW]

Fingers crossed it lasts! 🙏