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Create your first smart link

Five minutes from sign-up to your first shareable klck.link URL — with bot protection optional.

A smart link is a short URL on klck.link (or your own custom domain on paid plans) that points to whatever you want — your OnlyFans, your Instagram bio, a Telegram channel, a checkout, anything. Klickly records every visitor's country, device, browser and referrer; the dashboard surfaces it live.

The new smart link wizard with the freshly opened landing editor showing the five tabs and a live mobile preview.
The new-link wizard: the landing editor opens with its five tabs on the left and a live mobile preview on the right.
  1. 1

    Open the new-link wizard

    From the dashboard sidebar, click Smart Links → the green New button at the top right. Pick "Start from a template" if you want a ready-made landing for Instagram, OnlyFans, Telegram, etc., or "Blank custom link" to build from scratch.

  2. 2

    Pick a slug

    The slug is the part after klck.link/ (or yourbrand.com/). Keep it short, memorable, all lowercase. Klickly checks availability live — if the one you want is taken it'll suggest variants.

  3. 3

    Choose Landing or Direct link mode

    Landing mode = a mini-page on klck.link/<slug> with your photo, bio, and buttons (like Linktree). Direct link mode = the visitor is redirected straight to the destination URL with zero intermediate page. Both modes can have Shield enabled.

  4. 4

    Fill the destination(s) and save

    For Direct mode: paste the destination URL. For Landing mode: pick the cards you want (Instagram, OnlyFans, Telegram…) and either paste the URL or just the username — Klickly auto-builds the right link. Click Save and your link is live immediately at https://klck.link/<slug>.

  5. 5

    Test from your phone

    Open the new link from your phone before sharing it. Mobile browsers handle redirects differently than desktop — the test catches issues with deeplinks, custom domains and Shield in one go.

Tip

If you're moving from Linktree, you don't need to recreate every link — start with the one or two URLs you share the most (typically the IG bio link). You can keep using Linktree for the rest until you're ready to fully switch.