Pay to shorten URL sites you are using now?

Discussion in 'Pay Per Click Advertising' started by KarenBrown, May 25, 2014.

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    Hi so i'll start talking about this sites.
    These are pretty good generally eCPM is about $1, that can be higher or lower depending on where the visitors you send live. Like all ad networks really. Now there are probably many sites like this. i only used adfly, linkbucks, and shortest but i want to know what you use and what you recommend as well.

    Adfly: Works ok, allows you to setup your own domain as shortener, very unique feature really.
    • 5 seconds wait
    • pays via paypal
    • $5 payment threshold
    • Automatic monthly payments 1st day of each month or by request any time
    • See rates here:
      https://adf.ly/rates
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    Linkbucks: Same as adfly but lower earnings probably judging by their rates table. Still a good alternative.
    • 5 seconds wait
    • pays via paypal
    • $10 payment threshold
    • By request
    • See rates here:
      https://www.linkbucks.com/payoutrates/
      Code (markup):
    Shortest: I just started with this one, earnings seems better than adfly and linkbucks. Cool fast site design, very promising.
    • 5 seconds wait
    • pays via paypal
    • $5 payment threshold
    • Automatic payments 10th of each month
    • See rates here
      https://shorte.st/payoutrates
      Code (markup):
    I would like to know what other sites did you use, please talk about sites you used personally and got paid at least once...i can too go to google and get 20 site names that pay to shorten links this is not the idea of the post, i'm only interested on quality sites that pay and pay good of course.
    So yeah i hope to hear from you all.
     
    KarenBrown, May 25, 2014 IP
  2. KarenBrown

    KarenBrown Active Member

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    I'm surprised. Shortest NEVER replied to any of my support tickets.
    Shortest uses poups, automatically starts download of software, and most of the time times redirects to some ad site instead of where it should, users tell me they had to retry 5+ times to get to the desired location after skipping ad.
    The only good thing is that you earn more, but the service is by far the most terrible i've seen on the pay-to-shorten business.

    Of course since you don't click your own links you don't know all this, i have a big user base and they ditched shortest almost instantly.
     
    KarenBrown, Jun 26, 2014 IP
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    shorte.st Active Member Affiliate Manager

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    Hi,
    Today we had a small problem with directing users to the wrong URL - but after 15 minutes all was fixed. Sorry for the problem!
    Why do you say that we're "the most terrible"? Give us a fair try :)
     
    shorte.st, Jun 27, 2014 IP
  4. KarenBrown

    KarenBrown Active Member

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    I tried it from May 23th until June 24th, in this period i had to bear with constant complains of users not getting redirected where they should, retrying over and over the same link and only getting those "FLV player setup" or "Chrome player" or "Flash Player update" .exe that get automatically downloaded to the user PC:
    http://fsoft4down.com/nlp/j/smb/flvplayer?p1=shorte&utm_source=smb&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=shorte&utm_content=flvplayer#nd
    [​IMG]

    I sent countless tickets asking to stop the behavior you never replied any message.
    I liked the earnings but the site is unusable because most of the time it doesn't do what it's suposed to: "Display a site until someone clicks skip ad"
    Instead what your network does is" Display a site, download an exe file to use PC (probably trojan/virus), open a popup when you click skip ad (100% garanteed) and then redirect to some spammy website" IF you get lucky after several tries you will get to your destination.

    This happens because you are being greedy, you don't filter your advertisers, ANYTHING GOES on shortest, so starting downloads is OK, redirects are OK, popups are OK.
    No wonder why the earnings are slightly higher than legit pay to shorten sites.

    You sound like you wanna be like them but the service you provide proves you wrong every time.

    If you happen to filter the sites you promote in the future give me a call i surely will be interested on give it a go, but looking at how things are running now i will never go back to it.
     
    KarenBrown, Jun 27, 2014 IP