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Table of Contents:
Introduction
SEO
Social Media
Shortening links and Shorte.st
How it works
Scripts
Developers API
Practical uses of the scripts
Earning on referrals
Useful links
Remember that you can ask us at [email protected] if you need further information or clarification.
Introduction
If you own a blog, have your own website or
use social media, you can earn extra money
by doing almost nothing. It may sound
unbelievable, but it’s true.
You probably noticed that by sharing and
promoting the content of a blog or a website,
tra�c in those places increases. What is
more, bloggers, article authors or companies
in general, earn money every time their
material is shared and viewed by new
people. If you don’t know how it happens and
you’re eager to find out, just keep reading.
SEO
Why don’t we focus on SEO techniques for a while? The crucial thing
about having your place to publish is to keep the content original,
fascinating and up-to-date. If the users find the quality of it high, they
will visit the place regularly and will encourage others to do the
same.
Moreover, filling the content with keywords related to your topic is a
useful idea but don’t go too far with them. Search engines are get-
ting smarter and content stu�ed with keywords might be treated as
fake and your website or blog will not benefit from it.
Creating interesting infographics could also be a good point. People
fancy fast ways of gaining or comparing information so data visuali-
sations will be perfect for them. Short informative phrases, important
figures and pictures nice to look at work best for busy but inquisitive
Web surfers.
Also, regarding the website, remember about giving your pages tags
and descriptions. It will take you no time but for search engines it will
make a huge di�erence. If you place external links on your website
you may want to try exchanging links. Then, for placing a link to so-
meone’s site, you get a link directing to yours on their site.
Social Media
It’s Social Media time! There are numerous social services nowadays
and it feels they spring up like mushrooms. Have you got your com-
munity on Facebook, Twitter or G+ yet? If not, better late than never.
There’s nothing like loyal followers. Once you show your true enga-
gament, they will reciprocate with thankfulness and promotion of
your work.
In addition, social media, for example Facebook, give you the possi-
bility to plan posts in advance. This is how you can keep your follo-
wers informed without posting during your Sunday dinner or your
friend’s birthday party. It’s like killing two birds with one stone. Your
fans don’t feel neglected and you have time for yourself.
Shorte.st
How many times do you add a link on your website, blog or Facebo-
ok wall? Exactly! Everyone does it frequently. But now, imagine that
you could earn money every time someone clicks on your link. A
funny film on Youtube.. they click, you earn… An interesting article on
Mashable.. click, you earn again! And that’s how it goes.
There are certain ways which you can use to make the above scena-
rio happen, for example, Shorte.st. Shorte.st joins Internet en-
thusiasts who have a simple mission: to give people a better way to
earn money online. This is how an idea of a link shortener connec-
ted with an advertising network appeared.
How many times do you add a link on your website, blog or Facebo-
ok wall? Exactly! Everyone does it frequently. But now, imagine that
you could earn money every time someone clicks on your link. A
funny film on Youtube.. they click, you earn… An interesting article on
Mashable.. click, you earn again! And that’s how it goes.
How it works
Just in a nutshell how Shorte.st works. You register on Shorte.st,
shorten your chosen link and share it anywhere you please
So, if you post it on Twitter, for instance, and your friend, Steve, finds
it interesting, he will click to check it out and you will earn money.
The more of your friends do the same, your amount rises.
However, you can also use the quick-link method which means that
you have to copy the appropriate link, your token, from your account
on Shorte.st (you will find it in the Tools tab), paste it to the address
bar in your web browser and replace the ending of this link with the
link you want to shorten. Shorte.st will redirect you to a newly made
shortened link.
Just in a nutshell how Shorte.st works. You register on Shorte.st,
shorten your chosen link and share it anywhere you please
This is what you can do manually with the long link. But yet there is
some script magic you may want to try if you own a blog, a website
or a forum, thanks to Shorte.st’s scripts.
Scripts
Keep calm if you are not skilled in programming as your task will only
be to copy the script from Shorte.st and paste it in the right place in
your website’s code. So, let’s carry on.
All Shorte.st’s scripts are available in the Tools tab after clicking the
Website Monetization button. Once you paste Full Page Script into
your HTML code after the <body> opening tag, all your external and
internal links will be monetized.
You may think: ‘But, I don’t want my visitors to get irritated by con-
stant ads!’ Of course, not. That’s why we designed our script in a way
which enables you to exclude particular domains from shortening by
putting them on the domain list. Similarly, you may also select doma-
ins whose links will be shortened using include domain, as the script
adjusts flexibly to your current needs.
When your website, forum or blog is visited frequently, but you
haven’t got numerous external links, you’re also prone to money
making. Why? Because Shorte.st will monetize your tra�c.
Entry Script will result in showing a visitor an intermediate page
with an ad.
There are also a few options within Entry Script itself. One of them is
setting the timeout at 2, 6, or as many seconds as you want, to show
users the ad at a specific time. If you prefer, you can set the script to
start on a click by modifying trigger type so that it doesn’t activate
with the entry but with the click.
Keep calm if you are not skilled in programming as your task will only
be to copy the script from Shorte.st and paste it in the right place in
your website’s code. So, let’s carry on.
All Shorte.st’s scripts are available in the Tools tab after clicking the
Website Monetization button. Once you paste Full Page Script into
your HTML code after the <body> opening tag, all your external and
internal links will be monetized.
You may think: ‘But, I don’t want my visitors to get irritated by con-
stant ads!’ Of course, not. That’s why we designed our script in a way
which enables you to exclude particular domains from shortening by
putting them on the domain list. Similarly, you may also select doma-
ins whose links will be shortened using include domain, as the script
adjusts flexibly to your current needs.
When your website, forum or blog is visited frequently, but you
haven’t got numerous external links, you’re also prone to money
making. Why? Because Shorte.st will monetize your tra�c.
Entry Script will result in showing a visitor an intermediate page
with an ad.
There are also a few options within Entry Script itself. One of them is
setting the timeout at 2, 6, or as many seconds as you want, to show
users the ad at a specific time. If you prefer, you can set the script to
start on a click by modifying trigger type so that it doesn’t activate
with the entry but with the click.
Now it’s the right time for mentioning capping capability, and it has
nothing to do with baseball headgear. Capping options, which you
can configure in one of the above scripts, include both time and limit.
It means that you can set the limit of ad impressions for a particular
user in a given time, and what that time is.
Earning money is important of course, nevertheless, your visitors
shouldn’t get annoyed with ads, otherwise they may not want to
return in the future. And, if regular visits to your website or blog are
the basis for your forthcoming earnings, users should come first.
Now it’s the right time for mentioning capping capability, and it has
nothing to do with baseball headgear. Capping options, which you
can configure in one of the above scripts, include both time and limit.
It means that you can set the limit of ad impressions for a particular
user in a given time, and what that time is.
Earning money is important of course, nevertheless, your visitors
shouldn’t get annoyed with ads, otherwise they may not want to
return in the future. And, if regular visits to your website or blog are
the basis for your forthcoming earnings, users should come first.
Nevertheless, if it happens that some users will leave your blog or
website shortly because it was not what they were looking for, Shor-
te.st Exit Script will help you monetize this. So far Bounce Rate has
been treated as something to fight with. Now, you can use it to your
advantage and make money on it.
Shorte.st makes the use of all scripts very simple. If you go to Websi-
te Monetization in the Tools tab in your Shorte.st account, you will
find a mighty script generator there. This is the place where you
adjust the settings according to your needs. What you have to do is
turn a particular script ‘ON’ or ‘OFF’, and add additional information if
needed, for example, Domains in Full Page Script, or Trigger type
and Timeout in Entry Script. Once you do this, your desired script will
be generated and you can copy and paste it after the <body> tag in
your HTML.
Last but not least comes developers API. For the code ninja it may
be useful to know that it returns responses in JSON format. Never-
theless, if you are aware of what API is, you will figure things out
yourself for sure.
Developers API
Nevertheless, if it happens that some users will leave your blog or
website shortly because it was not what they were looking for, Shor-
te.st Exit Script will help you monetize this. So far Bounce Rate has
been treated as something to fight with. Now, you can use it to your
advantage and make money on it.
Shorte.st makes the use of all scripts very simple. If you go to Websi-
te Monetization in the Tools tab in your Shorte.st account, you will
find a mighty script generator there. This is the place where you
adjust the settings according to your needs. What you have to do is
turn a particular script ‘ON’ or ‘OFF’, and add additional information if
needed, for example, Domains in Full Page Script, or Trigger type
and Timeout in Entry Script. Once you do this, your desired script will
be generated and you can copy and paste it after the <body> tag in
your HTML.
Last but not least comes developers API. For the code ninja it may
be useful to know that it returns responses in JSON format. Never-
theless, if you are aware of what API is, you will figure things out
yourself for sure.
If something is still a bit unclear to you, read the following practical
uses of the scripts.
John has got a blog with game reviews and every time a new game
draws his attention, he writes about it. He decided to use Entry Script
because there aren’t many external links on his blog but thousands
of people read each of his entries. So, everyone who visits his blog
will see an intermediate page with an ad after 3 seconds from ente-
ring the blog, as this is the timeout he set. John customized the cap-
ping as well so that each visitor can see only one ad within 24 hours.
Practical uses of the scripts
If something is still a bit unclear to you, read the following practical
uses of the scripts.
John has got a blog with game reviews and every time a new game
draws his attention, he writes about it. He decided to use Entry Script
because there aren’t many external links on his blog but thousands
of people read each of his entries. So, everyone who visits his blog
will see an intermediate page with an ad after 3 seconds from ente-
ring the blog, as this is the timeout he set. John customized the cap-
ping as well so that each visitor can see only one ad within 24 hours.
He also knew that bounce rate on his blog is about 30% and thanks
to Exit Script he earns every time a visitor decides to leave.
Another example is Mary. She owns a website with cheap flights and
last minute holiday o�ers. Her job every day is to look for such o�ers
on various travelling websites. Many people visit Mary’s site because
they don’t have to do that themselves as they can rely on her. Be-
cause of a big number of external links that she’s got on her website,
directing to airlines, hotels, travel agencies, she chose Full Page
Script. However, she didn’t want her internal links to be shortened so
she excluded her domain in the Shorte.st script. Mary earns every
time the users of her website see ads while waiting for the page with
an o�er. She also added Exit Script when generating her own script
and benefits from users who visited her site by mistake.
Apart from earning using your blogs or websites you can also earn
when recommending Shorte.st to your friends. If you do that, you will
get 20% of the invited user’s income. This o�er is permanent and
has got no limitations. To sum up, the above guide is to both help
you find ways to increase tra�c on your website, blog, forum etc.,
and to monetize it by using Shorte.st and its methods.
Earning on Referrals
He also knew that bounce rate on his blog is about 30% and thanks
to Exit Script he earns every time a visitor decides to leave.
Another example is Mary. She owns a website with cheap flights and
last minute holiday o�ers. Her job every day is to look for such o�ers
on various travelling websites. Many people visit Mary’s site because
they don’t have to do that themselves as they can rely on her. Be-
cause of a big number of external links that she’s got on her website,
directing to airlines, hotels, travel agencies, she chose Full Page
Script. However, she didn’t want her internal links to be shortened so
she excluded her domain in the Shorte.st script. Mary earns every
time the users of her website see ads while waiting for the page with
an o�er. She also added Exit Script when generating her own script
and benefits from users who visited her site by mistake.
Apart from earning using your blogs or websites you can also earn
when recommending Shorte.st to your friends. If you do that, you will
get 20% of the invited user’s income. This o�er is permanent and
has got no limitations. To sum up, the above guide is to both help
you find ways to increase tra�c on your website, blog, forum etc.,
and to monetize it by using Shorte.st and its methods.
How it works https://shorte.st/howitworks
Tools https://shorte.st/tools
Benefits https://shorte.st/benefits
Referrals https://shorte.st/referrals
Payout rates https://shorte.st/payoutrates
Useful links
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Tools https://shorte.st/tools
Benefits https://shorte.st/benefits
Referrals https://shorte.st/referrals
Payout rates https://shorte.st/payoutrates
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