Last year I signed up for a website called TXT.EXE which is basically a link shortening site like tinyurl, but with a twist. If you are a member on the site you can have your adsense ads displayed on a gateway page, and the ads will show up based on the content of the URL you shorten (or squeeze, as they say). There are other sites like this, but this one has always worked the best for me.
There are a few caveats here:
- When I signed up it was a free beta test and I only got 25% of the total impressions for my ads.
- Now they changed it, you get 100% of the impressions BUT there it costs like $20 a month. You also get bonus impressions from the thousands of urls that people squeeze there each day as unregistered members.
Now I'd like to think I am an "above average" user. I know how to make money with adsense and using this site I was able to make about $3 a day average when I was only getting 25% of the impression. Now that I get 100% plus bonus, I am making $10 a day on average.
Wow. Big deal, you say. $10 is nothing...hey, that is $280 per month ($300 - 20 fee) and it is the easiest thing to do. What I'm going to do is share some of my techniques that work for me.
How to pick a link?
First of all, there are no restrictions on what links you can squeeze. Anything goes, but not anything will make you money. Before you choose a link you should find a "hot button" topic...and the link should either drive high volume for low payout, or have a high payout niche like something medical or web hosting related.
Low Payout / High Volume
I am a fan of anime, and Bleach is very popular. Rabid anime fans troll forums and such looking for the latest episode to watch or download...so what I do is I go on youtube and find the lastest episode or preview and squeeze that link, then post it on several anime forums. This includes "myspace forums", facebook and anime-specific discussion forums.
WITHIN MINUTES my link is getting hundreds of clicks. Literally...I shit you not. Just one of my anime links will pull in 100+ clicks per day for about 1.5 weeks, where it tapers down and gets a steady 25 per day. These are unique visitors, not repeat impressions from the same users.
Dude that's 100+ adsense impressions. Oh yeah, TXT.EXE has godly high CTR. Mine is around 8% always. Do the math. That is a minimum of 8 clicks per day for one link. I spend about 30-60 minutes every day or two and I do about 15 links. Anime links don't earn a lot per click, but the volume of clicks makes up for the lower payout.
This will work with TV shows too, not just anime. Pick any popular show, squeeze a link to it on youtube (you can upload clips of TV shows to youtube if you want) and share the squeezed link. The nice thing is that TXT.EXE will automatically embed links to youtube which increases your chances of getting clicks on ads. It's awesome.
Low Volume / High Payout
It's always nice to "diversify" and go for some high paying clicks. I guess you could research adsense websites that give you estimates of bids on whatever keywords, but common sense works too. What I prefer to do here is look on forums for threads about people asking "which is better, product a or b?" and then I squeeze a few links to product C (one related to A and B) and recommend that they check out product C.
Example:
POST: Should I get a panasonic LED tv or is the sony better?
Me: They're both good, but you should really check out the samsung LED TV before making your decision. Here are some reviews about it.
Notice, I squeeze one link to the TV itself and then another link to reviews about the TV. Bam. The nice thing is that google will index these forum posts and people searching for panasonic LED TV or whatever will see the links I posted, and click thru, see related ads and click them too.
These links have a longer "life" meaning you get about 10-30 clicks per day but rather than dying in a week or two they'll keep driving that kind of traffic for months.
Yep. That's pretty much all I do with TXT.EXE to rake in about $300 extra clams each month. No need to waste time with articles or other junk - just squeeze links to articles and share the links. LOL Told ya it was easy! That's like a car payment or something.
A few notes:
- Is it safe for your adsense account? I've been using it with txt.exe for almost 2 years now and never had so much as a peep from google. Nothing in google's terms specifically prohibit using adsense on a site like this (I checked and rechecked).
- NEW adsense accounts will have reduced payouts compared to established accounts. I've had my adsense account since 2004...it's 5 years old now. Most people don't know that and wonder why they don't earn good money with adsense.
- I think you could make more than $10 per day with this if you really were motivated. Maybe some of you Xrumer guys could figure something out.
- You won't make anything with this if you are lazy so don't waste your time!
- Yes, I actually pay for this service. Spending $20 to make $300 is 1500% ROI...w00t!
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