How to make money with Adfly

What is URL shorteners?

URL shorteners can be used to shorten long URLs.

Adf.ly detailed information

Adf.ly is a site which allows you to shorten your URL, it is no different from bit.ly and tinyurl.com. However it does differ because they have ad twist. When ever someone opens the short url there is a 5 second frame which shows an ad. The timing is very short and thus majority of the people using this service don’t mind the wait in return for using the system.

So how much money can you can you make with Adfly? It's a good question. The amount of money you can make with your Adf.ly links depends on where the people who click your Adf.ly links are located.

How Ad.ly Works?

I have given you an overview of the working of AdFly, there are some questions left why adf.ly pays you and how adf.ly itself make money. To make it more clear let us take an example. Think of an advertiser who wants to sell his product. So he want more visitors to see his business or buy his product: AdF.ly is the solution for the advertiser. Let’s check out the complete working of AdF.ly:

Advertiser pays money to Adfly to show his site to visitors of any specific country or the whole world. Let’s say advertiser paid $2 for 1000 views.
    Adf.ly takes a cut. Let’s say Adf.ly takes $0.4.
    Adfly shows the advertisement (of advertiser’s business or product) for 5 seconds when a visitor clicks on publisher’s links. Publisher gets rest of $1.6 for 1000 visits on his link.

Tools on Adfly

Website Entry Script: Website Entry Script allows you to earn money every time someone enters your site. First the visitor had to see ads for 5 sec. and then he will be allowed to visit your website.

Multiple Links: Multiple Links allows AdF.ly to convert ALL of the links on a page into Paid Links. You simply cut and paste HTML of a page into HTML box of the tool and it will generate a new page for you.

Mass Shrinker: This is a tool which allows you to shrink up to 20 URL links at a time. It is a good tool if you want to shrink many URL links at a time.

Full Page Script: If you have a website and you want to convert all your links into adf.ly links, this full page script tool gives you the code for that.

Bookmarklet: It is toolbar that you can install in your browser. Whenever you visit a page online you just simply click ‘Shorten with adf.ly!’ button in your tool bar and you will get shortened adf.ly link for that URL.

Easy Link:If you don’t need a short URL and you just want to earn money from your bsite, Easy Link provides you the quickest and simplest possible way to earn with adf.ly: http://adf.ly/4150450/www.google.com Replace “www.google.com” with whatever URL you wish the user to go to if they skip the advertisement. You do not need to even login to adf.ly to use this and your account will be credited in the same way as if you had shortened the link. If you want the Easy Link with the Banner advertising (less money, but less intrusive): http://adf.ly/4150450/banner/www.google.comNote that the URLs above are my easy link URLs. You will get your own easy link URL when you will sign up for adf.ly.

Pop Ads: If you have a website or blog and wish to earn money when a visitor simply enters your site (even without clicking an AdFly link!), you can use this tool to display Pop Ads.

Google Analytics: You can use this tool to see your adf.ly statistics in google analytics.

Domains: This tool allows you to use your domain or subdomain names with adf.ly service. If your blog URL is http://www.yourdomain.com, your adf.ly links could now look like http://go.yourdomain.com/Ad3g

Plugins: This tool provide wordpress users a plugin to integrate adf.ly on their blogs.

API Documentation: This tool you everything you need to integrate adf.ly links in your applications.

Mass Delete: Recently adfly added this tool which allows you to delete your links that were created in a given data range. uou can select data range and delete your links at one click.

Export Links and Stats: This tool allows you to export your shortened links and statistics so that you can have a backup of them.

Also read: 14 Highest Paying url shortener companies list

Pros and Cons of using Adfly

Cons

    For some countries Payout rates are quite low
    Visitors that visit adf.ly links must have Java Script and Flash Enabled to get count

Pros

    Simple User Interface
    Minimum Payout is only $5
    Fast and Easy Sign Up process
    You can also make money referring others
    Daily Payments are also available
    Easy to use and make money
    Many tools are available

Payment Proof

Adf.ly accounts

Adf.ly has an easy to reach payment threshold, so once you have earned $5.00 on your Adf.ly account, your earnings will automatically be paid into your PayPal, Payoneer, Payza account. If you don't have a Paypal or Payoneer or Payza account don't despair, they're both free to join and simple to use.

Payment methods

Minimum payout is only $5; this means as soon as you will make $5 you can withdraw it. Payment Methods are:

    Payoneer
    Paypal
    Payza

How much money can I make?

The Adfly pays upto $9.00 for 1000 views, $9.00 may sound small, but just think for a second, How many people use Facebook? Over 500 million people use Facebook on a daily basis. If you could get even a small portion of Facebook users to click on your link or url, you could be earning a tidy amount of money. A great way to attract lots of users to click on your links is to set up a Facebook group. Many of these groups have more than a million users - so if you get your thinking cap on, you can make good money very quickly!!!. You can also make more money by making videos and post them to Youtube and leave a link in the description.

How to Earn Money with Adf.ly?

Best thing i like about Adf.ly is that even a person that don't know much about Blogging, Internet, Computers and other tech stuffs can also earn money from it. There is no specific strategy to earn money from Adf.ly. I am going to give you some of ideas to earn money from adfly, but it doesn’t mean that these are only the ways to earn money. Be creative to make your own ways to share your url links, so that it reaches to huge number of people and they click on it. In a nutshell, a person is only going to click your urls  if you have something interesting to share through your links. Here are some of places you can share your url links. But before you share your url links; be sure you have something people want to check out. Let’s start:

1. Facebook.com
Millions of people use Facebook everyday, so Facebook is the best way to post your links and publish them.

2. Twitter.com
Get some followers on twitter and post your links there so your followers can click on these links.

3. Youtube.com
You can also use Youtube.com for your links by uploading videos.

4. Post on forums
Most of the forums allow url links in your posts. Find a trending topic that is going to be trending for few months at least. Find forums related to that topic and sign up to them. Find something related to that topic and post on them on forums. Keep increasing your posts solely. You will see your earnings increasing slowly.

5. Pinterest.com
Publish pictures of popular content with links of your website.

6. Make a Website
You can make a free website (blog or free google site) and post your url links on the website with your content (Just change your outgoing links to adf.ly links or you can also use their website entry script or full page script).

7. Refer Others
This can be proved to be the way to make most money from Adfly. Only you have to do is to refer your relatives, friends or anyone to join adfly and you will earn money. Refer Publishers and you will receive 20% of their earnings for life time.

Refer Advertisers and earn 5% commission on every advertising order they make.

8. Comment on blogs
This is similar to above "Post on forums". Just the difference is that this time you are posting on blogs/websites related to your topic.

9. Ask your Friends
Ask your friends to follow the links on your website.