<input type="hidden" id="_wpnonce" name="_wpnonce" value="69198ac6cf" /><input type="hidden" name="_wp_http_referer" value="/blog/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/896" /><input type="hidden" id="_wpnonce" name="_wpnonce" value="69198ac6cf" /><input type="hidden" name="_wp_http_referer" value="/blog/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/896" />{"id":896,"date":"2012-10-11T12:59:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T02:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businesslegions.com\/blog\/?p=896"},"modified":"2013-01-16T18:16:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T07:16:58","slug":"how-to-make-some-money-using-adf-ly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businesslegions.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/11\/how-to-make-some-money-using-adf-ly\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make some money using Adf.ly"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds0--><h3><strong>Do you have Twitter followers? Do you use short links for your twitter or blog posts?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I just came across a cool website that earns you money for using their shortlink. It&#8217;s called <a title=\"Adf.ly\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslegions.com\/blog\/adfly\" target=\"_blank\">adf.ly<\/a>\u00a0and you basically get paid for people clicking on your shortlinks. It&#8217;s perfect for Twitter and also for your website that gets quite a bit of traffic. So what it does is it displays an advertisement before you view the actual page. Yes, it can be annoying and the amount you earn is\u00a0dependent\u00a0on the number of people that click on your links. That&#8217;s why if you have a lots of twitter followers then you can use adf.ly in your twitter posts.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the process to set up your twitter account to use adf.ly:<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Sign up with adf.ly<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslegions.com\/blog\/adfly\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-928\" title=\"adf.ly\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/draft_lens17676073module148470409photo_1298502445adfly.468x60.5.gif?strip=all\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/draft_lens17676073module148470409photo_1298502445adfly.468x60.5.gif?strip=all 125w, https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/draft_lens17676073module148470409photo_1298502445adfly.468x60.5-45x45.gif?strip=all 45w, https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/draft_lens17676073module148470409photo_1298502445adfly.468x60.5-100x100.gif?strip=all 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Twitter account<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Go to <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\" target=\"_blank\">twitter.com<\/a> and setup an account if you don&#8217;t already have one. If you do use your existing account as most likely you will already have people following you.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>TwitterFeed account<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>In order to use <a title=\"adfly\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslegions.com\/blog\/adfly\" target=\"_blank\">adf.ly<\/a> with Twitter you will need to use a Twitter Feed service called <a title=\"Twitter Feed\" href=\"http:\/\/twitterfeed.com\" target=\"_blank\">twitterfeed.com<\/a>. This will grab all your posts from your blog using RSS and add them to your twitter posts.<\/p>\n<p>Register for an account and login.\u00a0If your new to twitterfeed you need to create a new feed by clicking the create new feed button as shown below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/twitterfeed-new-feed.png?strip=all&w=2560\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-946\" title=\"twitterfeed new feed\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/twitterfeed-new-feed-300x48.png?strip=all\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get the RSS feed URL &#8211; normally the website name and you will see the RSS icon e.g <a title=\"Business Legions RSS\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslegions.com\/blog\/\">https:\/\/www.businesslegions.com\/blog\/<\/a>. Add that in to the feed information like below:<\/p><!--CusAds0-->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/twitterfeed-add-feed-name-and-rss1.png?strip=all&w=2560\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-959\" title=\"twitterfeed add feed name and rss\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/twitterfeed-add-feed-name-and-rss1-300x102.png?strip=all\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"102\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now on the same screen click the &#8220;Advanced Settings&#8221; button and go to &#8220;shorten link through&#8221;. Click on the drop down box and scroll to the bottom. Select &#8220;Custom&#8221;. You will need to enter the Adf.ly code here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/twitterfeed-shorten-link-through.png?strip=all&w=2560\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-947\" title=\"twitterfeed shorten link through\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/twitterfeed-shorten-link-through-300x100.png?strip=all\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/twitterfeed-shorten-link-through-300x100.png?strip=all 300w, https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/twitterfeed-shorten-link-through.png?strip=all 401w, https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/twitterfeed-shorten-link-through.png?strip=all&amp;w=80 80w, https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/twitterfeed-shorten-link-through.png?strip=all&amp;w=160 160w, https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/twitterfeed-shorten-link-through.png?strip=all&amp;w=240 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>So how do you get the code?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Go back to Adf.ly, and\u00a0click Tools at the top. On the tools page go to &#8220;API Documentation&#8221; and click. On the page you will see something that looks like this:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/api.adf.ly\/api.php?key=xxx&#038;uid=yy&#038;advert_type=int&#038;domain=adf.ly&#038;url=http:\/\/somewebsite.com<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0the xxx represents a long key<\/div>\n<div>and the yy represents your id.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now all you need to do is replace the http:\/\/somewebsite.com with %@ . So it should look like this<\/div>\n<p>http:\/\/api.adf.ly\/api.php?key=xxx&#038;uid=yyy&#038;domain=adf.ly&#038;url=%@<\/p>\n<p>Copy this into the custom endpoint, so it should look something like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/twitterfeed-adf.ly-custom-end-point.png?strip=all&w=2560\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-948\" title=\"twitterfeed adf.ly custom end point\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/twitterfeed-adf.ly-custom-end-point-300x129.png?strip=all\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>So you may asking &#8220;How much money will I make?&#8221;<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Well, the average CPM (Cost per 1000) &#8211; my one is $1.57. Yes it&#8217;s low but I guess its a numbers game. The more people you get to click on your links the more you earn money.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Can you use adf.ly on my blog?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Yes, if you have a blog using WordPress you can use the plugin called AutoMonFly. All you will need to do is install the software.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lt-box\" style=\"border:1px solid #1d6a9e\"><div class=\"lt-box-title\" style=\"background-color:#2485C6;border-top:1px solid #a7cee8;text-shadow:1px 1px 0 #0b283b\">DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU'VE READ?<\/div><div class=\"lt-box-content\">Join our subscription list and receive our content right in your mailbox. 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