How to make money online with link Shortener

Earning Money with Your Links

Adf.ly is a service which basically allows you to take a long url and shorten it with their service.  The new link will then place either an interstitial ad or a framed ad banner along with your original url.  Then you get paid for the ad views.

In addition, adf.ly allows you to refers others to their service and get a life tie additional 20% revenue from their clickthroughs.

Their payout threshold is $5.00.  so you can cash out to your paypal account whenever you hit the $5.00 threshold.

I have a couple of thoughts on this service.

1. It seems like a great concept to earn some extra passive income on links you may already be promoting.  However, you do want to pace yourself with these ads so as not so spam your audience.
2. Their cpm rate is somewhere between $3.00 to $5.00, depending on the source.  That means that you need to have a lot of views to your ads before you will earn any money of substance.  It’s probably not going to make you rich overnight, but it is a set and forget type income strea em.
3. I don’t know if the market is starting to get saturated with these kinds of link embedded ad services.  People may recognize the adf.ly shortened link and be less inclined to follow the link.  Sometimes people are cautious of link shorteners.  Will this result in reduced clickthrough rates?  I’m currently testing this on twitter and will have a sense of it in a week or two.

Weighing all the pros and cons, I still figure it’s worth it!

I don’t use shortened links on Riches Corner, and I don’t plan to start now.  I certainly don’t plan to inundate everyone with ads for every link you click.

Luckily, I do have a couple of mediums where I can make use of these adf.ly links, through twitter or Facebook.  I have some spare twitter and Facebook accounts that I figure I can use for these adf.ly links.

If any of you try out this service, you may want to see how they work out on your spare twitter or Facebook accounts as well.

Here’s a step by step guide to signing up for this service for anyone interested:

Step 1:

To begin you will need to sign up with this service.  It’s free sign up and join.  Just click here. Now fill everything in and you will then need to confirm your email.

Step 2:

Now once you signed up and logged in, go to the home page and you will see a wide box where you enter in a website url and click the shrink button.

Step 3:

Start promoting your shrinked adf.ly link to as many people you can. The more people who click on it, the more money you will have in your pocket.

Additional Promoting Tip

One of the ways that I promote websites, or products through my social media accounts is by using an rss feed and routing it to twitter.  In this case, use the dlvr.it service, as they are able to use the adf.ly api as a third party default shortener

dlvr.it is a free service that is fairly straightforward to set up.  You just link a social media account like twitter or Facebook.  Then you start adding rss feeds.

This works great if you have feeds from affiliate accounts, you can route them on a schedule to be promoted.

It’s very easy to create a feed using this service.  You just enter in the feed url and then set the schedule that you want the feed to be pulled.  Then you just direct it at the account that you want the feed to go.

Now, in order to use adf.ly with dlvr.it, you just want to add your own custom shortener.  Just go to the settings page and hit add shortener.

ADFLY ←←

This opens a menu that allows you to select a third party shortener.  Just select third party shortener and it gives you the option to enter in the adf.ly api.

The shortener endpoint is where you want to enter in the adf.ly api.  You can find the adf.ly api at their site under tools.  However if you want, just copy and paste the following code:

http://api.adf.ly/api.php?key=LONG API KEY HERE&uid=SHORT UID KEY HERE&advert_type=int&domain=adf.ly&url=@URL@

Don’t forget to put in your own api and user id codes.

Then hit done.

Now your dlvr.it will send out the rss feed to twitter or any other social media service that you chose with your adf.ly shortened link automatically.

Add as many rss feeds as you want, but just remember to go easy with the service as you don’t want to spam ads.  If you link to quality content, it should be fine.

Try it out and tell me what you think of the service.

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Adfly Methods

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 Adfly This is an ad network that allows you to shorten links so that when someone clicks on the links, they will also be shown an advertisement.  At the same time, you will earn money for each view.  It’s a quick and simple way to start earning money online even if you don’t have your own website.  So if you want to dip your feet in the online money making waters, this may be a good place to start.

I’ve had a good response to that article and had some people sign up and start using Adfly with that method.  I was curious to see how they were doing, so I took a look at some of their earnings.

Of course, earnings varied according to how they operated and how they were promoting their links.  Here’s a screenshot of a couple of my referral’s earnings:

Now, you can see that the earnings are varied.  Some of these people have been using gadfly longer than others.  But I wanted to highlight a couple of these guys who’ve been members for less than a month.  $4 in 3 weeks may not seem like a lot of money, but keep in mind this is just the beginning.  Also, the earnings become cumulative as you add more promotional techniques.

I started out earning about $4 a month as well, but after a few months, I’m now earning upwards of $0.50 a day and I find that I earn more and more each day.  Partly, it’s because I’m getting more hits on my links and partly, my referral’s earnings are growing daily as well.

Oh, did I forget to mention that you earn 20% of your referral’s earnings for life?

So, once I started hitting $0.50 cents a day, I thought to myself that this actually is a pretty good passive income stream.  But I also realized that I was really not even using it to it’s fullest potential.

After all, I’m using the simplest method, which is twitter to promote my links.  But while twitter works well, it’s not the only method around.  For the enterprising, there are higher converting methods as far as generating interest.

There are people earning hundreds and even thousands each month through Adfly:

Here’s a screenshot of another user’s earnings:

You can see proof of other people’s earnings at the Adfly it Forums.

Of course, I wanted to learn how these people were earning so much monthly.  So, I set about on a quest to figure out the best methods for generating interest and clicks.  And I put it all together in an ebook.

Now, this is not an exhaustive list, as there are many ways to promote yourself.  If you’re imaginative, you can likely find other ways to get your links out there.  However, these are some of the most effective techniques.

Also, while these are methods that are specific to Adfly.  They can also be used generally to promote any type of link, including your websites or blogs.