PUBLISHERS - AdF.ly- Service Part1
Service
- What is AdF.ly? What does it do?
- How does this work?
- Does it cost anything to join? Any investment?
- How do I make money?
- How much can I earn?
- How do I install AdFly on my blog / forum?
- How many websites can I shrink? Is there a limit?
- API Rate Limiting
- How many links can a particular visitor click in 1 day?
- How much do you pay for xxxxxx country?
- What is proxy traffic? Will I get paid for it?
- Why are you not counting all of my visitors?
- How often are my Publisher stats updated?
- How often are Pop Ads shown to my visitors?
What Is AdF.Ly? What Does It Do?
AdF.ly is a URL shortener that rewards the publishers of the shortened links by offering 50% of the advertising revenue.
Our members fall into two different categories, Publishers and Advertisers.
A Publisher will earn money through AdF.ly by placing the shortened links on their website / blog / Facebook / Twitter etc. Each time when any of their visitors clicks on an AdF.ly link they will first view a full page advertisement for 5 seconds before being able to click a Skip Ad button and continue to their intended destination. We share this revenue with the Publisher of the link.
Advertisers pay AdF.ly for visitors to their website or affiliate URL. They can target a country, set a campaign budget and they are purchasing the visitors sent by our Publishers.
How Does This Work?
AdFly is an innovative service that allows you to earn money from each visitor to your shortened links. How this works is actually quite simple.
- Create an account with AdFly by clicking the 'Join' button on our homepage (https://adf.ly), make sure you select a 'Publisher' account.
- You will then need to check your email for our confirmation, please follow the instructions in the email.
- Login to your new AdFly account.
- Enter your favorite website in the big white box and click Shrink! Your first AdFly URL will be displayed and will look something like https://adf.ly/A
Now that you have an AdFly URL that is associated with your account, the work begins.
You will now be paid for every person that clicks on your AdFly link, so you need to give it maximum exposure. The easiest way is if you already own a website, you can 'shrink' URLs already on your website and replace them with AdFly links. Then your website visitors click on them, you will earn money.
It doesn't matter if you don't own a website, there are plenty of other ways to get people clicking on your AdFly links (without spamming!). Here a few ideas:
- Facebook. Got a great website to share with your friends? Shrink it with AdFly first.
- Forums. If you are helping people out on a forum and giving them the answers they require, shrink any website URLs with AdFly and then include them in your post. Be absolutely sure you are not spamming though, otherwise you get your account suspended. Always abide by the forum rules.
- Twitter. Do you have a Twitter with lots of followers? AdFly is perfect for tweeting links that will earn you money.
- Anywhere you normally post links! Use your imagination and paid by us every month.
Does It Cost Anything To Join? Any Investment?
If you wish to join AdFly to earn money, you do not need to make any investment or pay anyone money. We pay you!
If you want to advertise your website on AdFly, then yes obviously this costs money and payment is necessary.
How Do I Make Money?
To make money using AdFly, follow these simple instructions:
- Login to your AdFly account.
- Enter a website URL in the white box (e.g. http://www.google.com) and click 'Shrink!'.
- Copy-and-paste the AdFly link you are given on to your website, in to a forum post or blog post, Facebook status, twitter post etc.
- Every time someone clicks on that link, you will earn money.
- Basically when posting messages on the Internet, replace any normal link with AdFly links.
How Much Can I Earn?
This all depends on how many people click on your links.
Earning potential is limitless, and grows even further with our referral program which pays 20% of all of your referral's earnings for LIFE!
How Do I Install AdFly On My Blog / Forum?
If you have a website and wish to earn money when a visitor simply enters your site, please use our Website Entry Script.
To find the script, please login to your AdFly account and copy the script located here:
Copy-and-paste the code on to your webpage or blog.
If you want to automatically convert all the links on your blog / forum to AdFly links, you will need to copy-and-paste our Full Page Script.
To find the script, please login to your AdFly account and copy the script located here:
This needs to be pasted into the footer template.
This is different for every blog and forum platform, please consult the documentation.
How Many Websites Can I Shrink? Is There A Limit?
There is no hard limit.
We only ask that you use as many links as you need. Accounts with 10,000 links or more and very little earnings will be flagged and investigated.
API Rate Limiting
We have introduced a rate limit on the amount of calls an account can make to our API to automatically shorten URLs.
This was unfortunately necessary after some accounts had been abusing this service.
Currently the limit is 60 per minute, 3600 per hour and 86400 per day. After this, the API will return to you an error message.
If you need to request a higher limit please contact us:
and specify your website address and the reason for needing high volume API access.
We will evaluate the limit on a case by case basis. Thank you for your understanding.
How Many Links Can A Particular Visitor Click In 1 Day?
There is no limit in regards to redirecting the user, this will always work.
However, we pay for up to 5 advert views per IP in 24 hours.
How Much Do You Pay For Xxxxxx Country?
We do not pay a fixed amount on AdF.ly - we pay 50% of the advertising revenue generated.
This allows us to pay you more in the long term and also ensure we remain a profitable company, so that we will still be going for a long time ahead.
So we cannot state exactly how much we pay for visitors from a country but we can show you the average payout rate for yesterday, this is available here:
What Is Proxy Traffic? Will I Get Paid For It?
Proxy traffic are users who are connected to the Internet via proxy server, this happens a lot in universities / company offices / Internet cafes etc. Unfortunately due to their nature, it makes more difficult for us to determine unique users.
While we do not officially pay for proxy traffic, we will pay if we can show them an advertisement and we only can show them an advertisement if it has been specifically requested by the advertiser.
It is generally the lowest paid traffic.
Why Are You Not Counting All Of My Visitors?
First please ensure you waited up to 2 hours for our stats to update.
There are number of reasons as to why our numbers do not match.
For us to be able to pay you for your traffic, the following criteria must be met:
- Must have JavaScript enabled.
- Must have Flash enabled.
- Must have Cookies enabled.
- Must view the advert for at least 5 seconds.
- Must not being using a proxy server (unless we have advertisers wanting this traffic).
- Must not have viewed more than 5 links already that day.
- Must be an advertiser willing to pay for traffic from their country.
The last point is the most important, if we do not have an advertiser to match with your visitor - we cannot show an advert.
We try and keep unpaid defaults to an absolute minimum but depending on the country of your visitors, this a possibility.
How Often Are My Publisher Stats Updated?
The stats are updated every 30 minutes. It times you how long ago they were last updated below the list of links.
How Often Are Pop Ads Shown To My Visitors?
You can now set the number of times Pop Ads are shown to your visitors in your website simply by adding the variable:
var popunder_frequency_delay = 0;
to your Java Scrip code.
We recommend to keep the default settings specified in
in order to maximize your revenue.
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