Have you ever clicked on a link and a cute little bumblebee appears in the top left corner for five seconds? Perhaps you were led to this article in such a way?
You have stumbled across AdF.ly’s link shortening, pay per click service. Think of this as a finder’s fee. It allows the link publisher to make a small amount of money by displaying a short advertisement to the visitor.
If you enjoy surfing forums, writing blogs, or sharing content, AdF.ly may put a few extra dollars in you pocket. It’s quick, easy, and most importantly free to set up. All you have to do is to sign up here.
Here’s a quick tutorial about how AdF.ly works.
Say you are the author of a sports blog and would like to direct you visitor to a players’ statistical biography on ESPN.com. By inserting the link into AdF.ly’s link generator,
http://espn.go.com/nba/player/_/id/6445/jajuan-johnson
becomes
http://adf.ly/6DTE1 or http://j.gs/ioq
AdF.ly’s user platform is clear, showing the amount of views per each link and providing you with a daily graph of number of clicks. In addition, it supplies you with the number of clicks from each country and each of the referring websites. Data refreshes every twenty minutes.
You earn roughly one dollar per each one thousand clicks. I have to admit, making decent money may seem hard at first, but AdF.ly’s graphs allow you to check your progress. Persistence is the key. Try getting 50 more clicks a day, interacting online with AdF.ly links until you reach your daily goal. Once you have spread your links throughout the web, people will continuously visit them even if you don’t actively monitor it. Therefore, generating clicks will be easier as time goes by.
There are different techniques such as posting on Facebook and Twitter, incorporating AdF.ly links in signatures, and even spamming on comment boards. Again, with AdF.ly’s real time statistics, you will eventually find something that works for you.
Lastly, AdF.ly pays out via PayPal or AlertPay once a month. The minimum payout is only five dollars.
My experience with AdF.ly has been positive. After joining for about three months, I’m up to about 30,000 clicks per day, which is only $30 a day ($900 a month). However, I only “work” with AdF.ly for about 20 minutes every morning. AdF.ly might not be for you, but you should definitely give it a try since there is no startup cost.
If you have any questions or need suggestions, feel free to leave me a comment. Enjoy AdF.ly!