Adf.ly Strategy

One of the sites that is currently generating passive income is AdFly.  AdFly is a link shortening sites, where you can chose to add adverts before you links (or not) and also offers 20% of referral income.  It is truly one the easiest passive earners on the web, but one I've under-utilised... until now.

I have built an AdFly strategy and placed this in the tabbed banner above.  It explains one of many ways you can use this site to earn money and is worth checking out.

My Average Day

I have an email asking me what my average day was like - how much time I spend earning on the web and what my income was.  I've decided the best way to answer that is by recording my day and tallying up at the end, so here goes...

9.00am-9.30am - Time for a coffee!  I turn on the computer and head straight over to Inbox Dollars.  My first 5 searched of the day will be found through this site, which will earn me $0.06.  The site I search for is  Slice the Pie!  And over the next 30 minutes I drink my coffee and listen to music - posting reviews as I listen.  I posted 8 reviews and made $1.89.

9.30am-10.00am - I look at my Adf.ly account and my AdSense, noting that I made $0.21 and $0.89, respectively, before turning my attention to the boring part of the morning... my Paid To Click sites.  I have 6 of these on the go at the moment (2 because of the PTC Experiment) and the rest being tested for a review on the blog. NeoBux made me about $0.50 with referrals (in the last 24 hours) and the rest which includes the likes of ClixSense, PTCBox and BuxP have probably made only $0.25, with varying numbers of personal and referral clicks. It takes 30 minutes to get through this lot, partly because I have an increasing number of referrals to manage.

10.00am-4.00pm - It's time to do what I get paid for and go to work.  I'll complete this post later!  Still to do: forums, more music reviews, and surveys.

4.00pm-4.45pm - I decide to check out e-rewards, Valued Opinions and NPolls find a couple of surveys.  Surveys are one of the most profitable ways to make money on the internet and in 1 hour I have made £1.50 on Valued Opinions, $0.20 on NPolls  and the equivalent of $2 on e-rewards.  Usually if I can't find surveys on these sites there are others I will check out.

4.45pm-5.30pm - This is the last stint on me earning on the internet for the day and I spend it on Slice the Pie, earning a further $2.51, but also seeing that my referrals have been busy and added a further $0.38 to that sum.

In total today:

• Adverts = $1.10
• PTCs = $0.75
• Surveys = $4.20
• Music reviewing = $4.40

Grand total = $10.45 for 2.5 hours work, though there are other days when this can be higher this seems average, bringing in $70-75 per week (quite a nice 2nd income earned for the time most people send on Facebook).

Paid Link Shortening Websites

Link shortening websites are sites where you take a URL shorten it through their system and share with others.  The difference between a link shortening website like Tiny URL and Ad Fly is that whilst Tiny URL takes you directly to a website like Ad Fly re-directs you to a banner, advert or survey first.

The banner option puts a advert at the top of the page that you can remove if you want - click here to see what one looks like.  The advert option gives a countdown (usually 5 seconds) that you have to watch before you can skip it - click here to see what one looks like.  The survey option means that there has to be a survey completed before you can get to the link.  Typically you earn a lot more for sites re-directed through surveys, though less people are willing to participate.

I'm currently trailing a couple of paid link shortening websites and there are some stark differences between them.  Let's start with the good one (good - so far),.

AdFly

Positives:

• Easy to use
• Good reputation
• Established
• Does not use surveys
• Choice of banner or advert for each link
• You can create plain re-directs
• Pays 20% on referrals
• Large community with useful forum
• Low cash out amount ($5)

Negatives:

• Pays very little per click-through
• Statistics breakdown isn't very detailed

We are still trialling AdFly and will report back on whether they pay or not.  Check out the certified sites page and blog for future updates.  But for every good site there are many bad ones.

Bee4 (www.bee4.biz)

Positives

• Active admin
• High payouts
• Active forum

Negatives

• Small community
• Rude admin who removes posts he doesn't agree with on the forum
• Was unable to generate a penny of money after having a number of surveys completed
• Uses surveys ONLY

In short avoid Bee4.biz, they are the first site to make it on to our "uncertified list".  If you want to make passive income this way, use AdFly or an equally reputable company.