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| Shorten URL and Make Money Sites |
While there are many ways to make money online, I believe making money by URL Shortening is one of the best for newbies. Just shorten URL, people click on it and you make money. Quite fantastic, isn’t it? Today I am going to present before you the top legit URL shortening website that you should choose to make money online. I have taken care of many factors before ranking them, like Page Rank, Alexa Rank, My Experience etc. I’ll keep on updating the list when it is needed. Before jumping to the Shorteners I would like to explain the factors on which ‘Top Legit Shorten URL and Make Money Online Sites’ list is based:
Page Rank: Page Rank is the one factor that Google uses to rank websites on their search results. Page Rank of a site can be anything between 0 and 10. Page Rank is generally given on the basis of quality of site and backlinks it has got.
Alexa Rank: Alexa Rank shows the relative popularity of website over internet. Less is the Alexa Rank, more the site is visited.
Payment Time: The list is also based on the time these sites take to make their payments.
Support: Support is obviously a factor that cannot be ignored.
My Experience: User Experience decides the fate of a site. My experiences with ‘URL Shorteners’ is also a factor to list them.
I could have listed 20+ Shorten URL and Make Money Sites like others do, but I have not. The reason is most of these sites are scam or become a scam after few months. I have only listed sites that I have myself used and the sites that always pay on time.
Note: Page Rank and Alexa are changing factors. The information about them provided here was last checked on July 10, 2014.
#1 Adf.ly
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| Adf.ly |
Page Rank: 4 Alexa Rank: 146
Adf.ly is the most popular URL shortening website and this is one of the reason it deserves the first place. Adf.ly has over 2 million registered users and gets more than 6 million of clicks to their links daily. They have paid out millions of dollars to their publishers and are continued to grow. They are also the highest paying guys in the industry crossing $9/1000 visits. Getting started is easy and FREE.
Features:
- Easy to Sign Up
- Most popular URL shortener
- Highest paying in the industry
- Pays $0.20-$9.0/1000 visits
- Minimum payout is only $5
- Payment Methods: Paypal, Payza and Payoneer
- Pays on time
- Interstitial as well as banner ads are also available
- Earn 20% for life referring publishers
- Earn 5% for every advertising order that advertisers make.
- Tools: Mass Shrinker, Multiple Links, Easy Link, Bookmarklet, API Documentation, Google Analytics, Full Page Script, Website Entry Script, Export Links and Stats, Domains Pop Ads.
#2 Linkbucks.com
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| Linkbucks |
Page Rank: 5 Alexa Rank: 762
Linkbucks.com is currently considered as second most popular in this arena. Linkbucks also allows Pop Unders and Lockers along with link shortening which makes it unique. It is 5 years old and had paid out millions of dollars to its publishers till now. With Link Locking feature you can make much more money ranging from $0.1 to $10 for each unlock of your links. To unlock link the visitor have to complete a survey or a task. Linkbucks lacks ‘Easy Sign Up Process’ and Simple User Interface compared to Adf.ly or Shorte.st.
Features:
- Minimum Payout is $10
- Payment Methods: PayPal and Payoneer
- Additional Money Making Opportunities such as Pop-Unders and Link Locking
- 20% earnings of your referrals for lifetime
- Pays on time
- Tools: Single Link, Multiple Links, Full Page Script and more.
#3 Shorte.st
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| Shorte.st |
Shorte.st: Page Rank: 2 Alexa Rank: 6124
Sh.st: Rank: 2 Alexa Rank: 489
Note: Here you should consider Alexa Rank of Sh.st as it is the domain used by Shorte.st to short URLs. Sh.st has better Alexa rank than Linkbucks.com means that Shorte.st is becoming more popular than Linkbucks among people to make money online. But I have ranked Linkbucks #2 because of it is paying from 5 years while Shorte.st is comparatively new.
Shorte.st is the new site I joined recently and I loved it. Its interface is awesome and it has some great new tools. It has gain huge popularity relatively very fast. While it does not pay as much as Adf.ly, it looks quite promising. I hope eventually the rates will increase. Sign Up process is lightning fast. You will not able to figure out when you signed up as it takes up 5 seconds. Their interstitial page is also attractive and that will make sure that your link visitors does not hate you for the advertisements they are shown. Shorte.st is a legit site and provides good support. Don’t think twice before signing up to them, you’ll never regret.
Features:
- Attractive look and five second sign up process, you can also sign up using Facebook
- Very Good and Simple User Interface
- Pays $0.25-$3.96/1000 visits
- Minimum Payout is $5
- Payment methods: Paypal and Payoneer.
- Tools: Quick Link, Developers API, Website Monetization, Mass Shrinker, Referral banners, Social Share Widget, WordPress Plugin and Blogspot Comments.
Final Words
If you are interested in making money online by sharing your links, I recommend you to Sign Up at Adf.ly or Shorte.st first as they are easier to get started and have low minimum payout. Making money online is not easy. Don’t think that you will sign up to any of the above and you will start making huge money. You will earn cents but if you continue to share your links over the internet slowly your earnings will add up. If you work harder you could easily make $1- $10/day or even more. Also just reading about making money online will not make you money online. You have to make plan and start executing them. So sign up to any of the above now and start you Online Making Money journey now.
Do you have any question or suggestions, or do you want to share your experience? Feel free to comment, I will try to get back to you as soon as possible.
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