Mistakes that quietly cost people their earnings

Asking friends to click repeatedly is the most common one. It inflates a number that does not pay, and it makes your statistics useless for working out what is actually landing.

Posting the same link everywhere on the same day is the next. It reads as spam even when it is not, and platforms are quick to limit reach for accounts that behave that way.

Then there is shortening a link nobody had a reason to open. The link is not the product. Whatever is on the other side of it is, and no amount of sharing rescues a destination that is not worth the trip.

The pattern behind all three is treating the number as the goal instead of the audience. Fix the audience and the number takes care of itself.