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 lifetime 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.
- 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.
- 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 stream.
- 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 a try.
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.
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