For those who are new to Adf.ly, it is a url shortening service, you can earn money by sharing links. When ever somebody clicks on your Adf.ly link a 5 second ad will be displayed, if he/she views the ad you will earn money.My Experience with Adf.ly:
I will tell you all things inside out where nobody else will tell you unless you sign up for an account at Adf.lysite and participate actively in their forum. Here I will cover all important points for you to get familiar with.
First of all it is most likely that anyone will join Adf.ly is to earn money. Let me tell you about earning withAdf.ly. If you join Adf.ly your first earnings start from $0.000000. Note, that there are 6 digits after the period. So you don’t even get $0.01 cent for 20 ad views while other advertising sites are paying at least$0.04 to $0.10 for full page ad view. If you are a beginner you have to work hard to get paid $5 which is minimum payout. But there are success stories, established people are doing great. They are earning good amount from Adf.ly.
Even if you have a site getting decent traffic, your website traffic stats may differ with Adf.ly stats. I mean Adf.ly stats will show you low page views when compared with website stats. The reasons for this are stated below.
The following activities by any user visiting your site will not give you any Adf.ly views.
1. It’s possible that your visitor doesn’t have cookies enabled. No cookies, no view.
2. If flash is disabled, this doesn’t count as well.
3. If your visitor didn’t view the ad for 5 seconds, then it won’t count.
4. Your visitor didn’t click the Adf.ly link. Copy paste methods in the url don’t count.
5. If people visiting your site are using addons like “NoScript” and “Ads Fight”, views will not count.
When you look on the Adf.ly home page they explicitly state that you can earn more than $4.00 / 1000 visitors to your links. But as per my experience you can hardly earn $1.00 / 1000 visitors. It all depends on the countries your views are coming from. See the Publisher Rates, the average cost per view.
Things you should never do with your Adf.ly Account:
Try Avoiding the following activities…
1. Never use Bots or any other program for sending fake traffic.
2. Never post your Adfly links on Adult sites/forums.
3. Never derive traffic to Adfly links from PTC(paid to click) sites.
4. Never put Adf.ly Website Entry script on PTC,Adult sites or on sites that get traffic from paid sources.
5. Never try to create more than one Account From the same Computer.
6. Never try to double shrink an Adfly link(For eg. shrinking first with q.qs domain and secondly with adfly one)
7. Never ask your friends or anybody else to click on your Adfly links.
8. Never link to illegal content.
9. Never use spam.
These were some of the Adfly Rules that you should obey. These Activities may result in account Ban.
How to make money with Adf.ly and Twitter:
This method is very popular on the Internet. So I am not going into too much detail. To get started you need 3 of these Twitter account, Twitter feed account and Adf.ly account.
First select a site in your favorite niche and copy their post feed url. Paste the post feed url in Twitter feed account, click on “Advanced Settings” button and go to “Shorten link through” in the drop down menu select “custom”. Now go to your Adf.ly account copy the “api key” and “uid” on the tools page. Which looks in this format.
http://api.adf.ly/api.php?key=############&uid=######&advert_type=int&domain=adf.ly&url=http://somewebsite.com
Now paste your key and uid in this link (replace the # with your key and uid)
http://api.adf.ly/api.php?key=###########&uid=######&domain=adf.ly&url=%@
Now copy this link and paste it in Twitter feed account where it says “Custom endpoint:”. Now when ever new posts are published on your favorite website that posts will be tweeted to your Twitter account with shortened Adf.ly url. @Lawlpopz implemented this method effectively, look at his Twitter account, urls are shortened with Adfly.
Get Started Happy earning
