A little while ago I posted a thread inviting people to join a website called txtexe.com and quite a DP members took me up on my offer. I am pleased to say $105.86 was deposited into my bank account for the Dec 2008 period. I just wanted to share with you how I got there, and where I'm trying to get to. First of all, I started with a 15% "click share", meaning that 15% of the traffic I generated (they call it "link views" ) was shared with me as adsense impressions. The website gave me a 5% 'christmas bonus' bringing me to 20%, and I completed a 'boost mission' for another 5% bringing me to my current 25% clickshare level. Basically, I get 25 impressions per 100 "link views". I invited over 30 people in December and many of them have been active. Each time someone who I invited receives an impression, it gets credited to me as a link view (the site calls it "LV bonus" or 'link view bonus") - and that is how I was able to significantly boost my impressions! In my case, I was getting about 100-200 lv bonus per day because of all the people I invited, and that added up very fast. To help you understand better, if all of my links got ZERO traffic, I'd still get 25 to 50 impressions per day! This site has a very high CTR so even with 100 impressions per day I'm getting 2-5 clicks which averages out to $3-5 per day! Fortunately, my own links are generating about 75 impressions per day so I am effectively receiving a much higher percentage of impressions on my adsense ads. Here is a numerical breakdown: My Links' Traffic: ~400 per day My LV Bonus: ~100 per day My Click Share: 25% 25% x (400 + 100) = 125 impressions per day Due to the way the site shows highly relevant ads based on the links that are squeezed, if you are SMART about the links you share, your CTR will be VERY HIGH. Mine averaged out to over 7% for Dec, which is 8 clicks per day. My average daily earnings are $3.50, which is working out to $0.40 per click!!! I'm not doing anything ground-breaking here, this is all very simple. I don't even need to dedicate much time to this because the links I share are worked into my normal routines. Whenever I post links on forums, I squeeze them first and that's it. I don't spam them or do anything unscrupulous. Some people asked me if it is OK to post AdSense on sites like this - the answer is yes. The AdSense terms of service do not prohibit it so you are in the green. The people who are visiting your link are interested in the content, and the ads displayed are matched to the destination site's content, therefore the relevancy (Google loves relevancy) is very high. That is also why you can achieve crazy-high CTRs! I'm hoping for an even bigger check this month and so far it is looking good.
Sounds like artificial impressions to me, ie a traffic generation site which IS prohibited by Adsense. Perhaps you can clarify what the full process is here...
If you are going to reply to a thread at least make an effort to get your facts straight. A simple visit to the site will allow you to ascertain what kind of site it is, and easily see that it is not "artificial traffic generation". It is also easy to understand how it works.
I did make a simple visit to the site. Anything that specifically talks about "the more X you do, the more displays/impressions/etc you get" smacks of traffic generation. In theory maybe not a problem, but when generation of impressions becomes an overriding reason for "squeezing" links, then a strong argument of artificiality can be made. No different than some moron coming into DP after signing up for revenue sharing, and posting 8349 threads in an effort to get his ad viewed more.
You could make that argument for AdSense in general - that when ads are based on the site's content, webmasters will have an "overriding reason" to create sites specifically to generate the most clicks on the highest-paying keywords. This is known as MFA (made for adsense) or splogging (making spam blogs). As with any tool, there are appropriate and inappropriate uses...since you are so concerned with the latter, it only suggests to me that your approach to using the site would fall into the "spam" category. In my case, I post links to websites that I've visited or that I am interested in myself...this is how I know the links I share are worthwhile. While I want people to click on my links, I do not take any special measures to achieve that. In Dec. I squeezed about 20-30 links...that's it...and each one gets about 3-5 clicks per day. As long as the links being squeezed are relevant there is no problem. Google is smart enough to tell when links are "spam" and prices you accordingly. You will earn little or nothing for squeezing and spamming worthless links...and doing so excessively can get you banned. I don't think the point you bring up holds much weight, nor is it benefiting any of the other members that are reading this thread. They know the rules about spam, and so do you. Worried about your adsense account getting banned? DON'T SPAM and you'll be fine! It's fully under the users' control. Anyway I'm only sharing MY results, and to make an extra $100 a month or so just by sharing links that I was going to share anyway - why the hell not?
yeah, i got the idea , it's not bad... BUT : so i do all the work, find and share links, write or fing good articles or ebooks to share .... submitting those to forums, blogs and all the same sites, and try to get hundreds of visitors to my "shorten url", where a gate keep showing ads, right ? So.. in exchange of all this.. I only get 15% of "click share", meaning that 15% of the traffic I generated (they call it "link views" ) was shared with me as adsense impressions .. so the rest 85 % go to the TXTEXE webmaster... for what ????? Don't you think it's easier to create a simple site like txtexe, in about 1 hour, and keep 100 % of the revenue ??? pfffff....
Did you just say squeezing and sharing links is "work"? It's hardly work...it takes seconds to do. Funny how you would complain that posting links is so troublesome, yet sites like Qassia and Squidoo persist, with people writing and submitting articles that benefit the sites only to make pennies from any traffic their articles may generate. I'd suggest that you people stop whining and complaining needlessly and TRY IT. If you can't make money with txtexe then just get a regular job, because it is by far the easiest way to make money on the web, period.
omfg... I didn't say that the system txtexe DOESN'T work... I BET that works, without even trying it !!!! I just asked WHY should I give 85 % of my traffic, 85% of my work.. for a webmaster that have a site who do a simple redirect ? And you just avoid my question very nicely.
It's a completely pointless question. Go ahead and make a website as you said and see how much you make. 15-20% of something is better than 100% of nothing. I bet right now you are making $0 from the links you share!