In a recent panel we joined our creators on, Driving Performance with Affiliate Marketing, Ashlyn Dokukin (@house.on.oak.lane) shared her winning strategy for making every click count on ShopYourLikes. As she put it:
“ShopYourLikes is the main platform I use. For some retailers you get paid per click, not just hoping for sales like commission… I check my analytics, sort Stories by highest link clicks, and keep linking only the top-performing ones.”
Ashlyn’s approach shows how real-time analytics and focusing on high-performing links can generate affiliate income without the lag time of sales-based commissions.
Here’s her complete affiliate strategy:
1. Use Real-Time Analytics to Pick Winning Links
Ashlyn regularly checks her ShopYourLikes data to garner clear insights into which links are pulling in the most engagement of clicks and orders. Through sorting links by highest number of clicks, she ensures that her content continuously highlights products her audience loves most.

2. Only Repost Top Links
Instead of reposting every product, Ashlyn chooses top-performing items to reiterate to her audience. Think of these products as the main characters in her (affiliate) story. This practice optimizes the performance behind products with proven interest, which then maximizes her income potential.

3. Save Top Links to Story Highlights for Residual Earnings
To keep her high-performing links visible, Ashlyn saves the best of the best links to Instagram Story Highlights. This approach allows her audience to access her most popular links on an evergreen basis, so she can generate a passive revenue stream.

4. Add to a ShopYourLikes Collections
Ashlyn also takes advantage of ShopYourLikes Collections to aggregate her top links, Collections allows creators to house multiple links in one link. This allows for streamlined curation of products and acts as a creator’s personal ShopYourLikes storefront. The structure not only boosts revenue per click but also enhances the shopping experience for her followers.
With this structured analytics-driven strategy, Ashlyn shows how making data-based choices as a creator can make a significant, yet manageable, impact in affiliate earnings.