Switching From Trakyo: Moving Tracked Links Without Breaking Attribution

Switching from Trakyo (or any link tracker) to a new attribution tool usually breaks at one step: the old tracked links already sitting in hundreds of YouTube descriptions. If they stay, clicks keep flowing to the old tool. If you replace them by hand, you'll miss some, and a few will end up pointing at the wrong page.

This guide covers how to move those links over safely. If you're still deciding whether to switch, read what to look for in YouTube revenue attribution first.

Step 1: Find every old link, including shortened ones

Old descriptions rarely contain one clean link. Expect a mix of tracker links, generic shorteners, and links that redirect two or three times before they land.

In VidWorth: a legacy-link scan reads every synced description on the channel, finds links that belong to another tracker or shortener, and follows each one through its redirects to the page it really opens. It changes nothing and doesn't use YouTube API quota, because it works from descriptions already synced.

Step 2: Review where each link actually goes

Group the old links by real destination: your booking page, your opt-in page, a sales page, a page that no longer exists. This is the moment to fix destinations, not after the new links are live. Dead destinations are common on back-catalogs and quietly cost conversions.

Step 3: Preview every change before anything is written

You should see, per video, which link is being replaced and which page the new one will open, before a single description changes.

In VidWorth: the migration preview lists every video whose description would be rewritten, the link being replaced, and the destination of the new tracked link. The preview writes nothing.

Step 4: Apply with approval and keep an undo

Only apply the rewrite once you've approved the preview. VidWorth never writes to YouTube without explicit approval, changes only the description field, and stores the previous description so it can be restored. See what happens when VidWorth edits a YouTube description.

Step 5: Keep your old data for comparison

Export what you can from the old tool before cancelling: per-video clicks, conversions, and revenue for the last few months. That gives you a baseline, and it lets you check that the new tool's numbers are in the same range for the same videos.

Step 6: Watch the first two weeks closely

After migrating, check that:

• Clicks are arriving on the new links from the videos you expect.
• Bookings and payments are being credited to specific videos, not just to "YouTube."
• Your payment processor's totals match the new tool, net of refunds.

If something is credited to no video, it usually means a link was missed or a form isn't passing the click ID through. The utm_content and tid explainer shows what each parameter does.

Quick answers

Will migrating break my old videos' links? Not if you preview first and keep the same destinations. Every replaced link still opens a working page.

Do I need to migrate every video? The ones that still get views do. Older videos with almost no traffic can wait, but a full pass is usually just as fast.

What happens to old click history? It stays in the old tool. Export it before you cancel.