I’m Earning Passive Income with Adfly

By on March 4, 2015

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About two weeks ago, I wrote about a new URL shortener I discovered called Adfly. At that time, I had freshly joined the program as it was an intriguing way to earn passive income so I basically just started a fresh twitter account just for that program.

Overview of Adfly

Adfly simply takes a long url and shortens it. These kinds of shortener services are perfect for microblogging platforms like twitter because of the character limitations. The unique thing that adfly does is that it adds an advertisement that the visitor will see while going to the website. You earn for every view.

As you can see, the potential is to earn passive income completely through adviews. However, you want to be careful so as not to bog down you regular sites with ads.

Adfly does give the option of less obtrusive ads, but they pay less. I just opted to use a new account just for adfly links.

I simply picked a niche for my new twitter account. I chose to focus on shopping. I simply wrote a short bio about how I like to look for shopping deals and bargains and then started routing rss feeds to that twitter account.

I use dlvr.it to route the feeds. It’s a very simple matter to use the Adfly api as the default shortener so all the links go through Adfly.

All the rss feeds focus on money and bargains. Of course, I was able to add some affiliate links as well. The reason I picked this niche was that I figured that people who are looking for bargains are likely to click through to the deals.

Then I started building up my twitter following.

So, in the first few days, I only got a few clickthroughs, but as my twitter following grew, I got more and more.

Currently, I have a little over 4000 followers.

You can see how I’m growing my twitter following in my free article here.

So, at this point, I’m getting upwards of 20 clicks a day. Just looking at my Adfly stats, I’m probably earning 3-5 cents a day in clickthroughs. While that doesn’t sound like much, remember this is a new account and it’s growing.  I earn more and more every day and  it’s passive income. I’m doing nothing more than growing my twitter following.  Not to mention that at the same time, some of my affiliate links are getting clickthroughs as well.

I must say, I’m feeling fairly optimistic about this url shortener and thought I’d give all of you a quick update.

If would like to earn passive income this way, you can sign up for Adfly free below:


Update:

Just a quick update to my Adfly to twitter cash generating method:

  1. Create unlimited new niche twitter accounts using the same gmail account by simply adding a “+” after your username.  e.g. “[email protected]”
  2. Set up your adfly api as the default url shortener using dlvr.it
  3. Grab rss feeds related to your niche from around the web and route them to your new twitter account
  4. Follow tweeters in your niche using twiends or tweepi.  (You can still use the method I mentioned up above, but you need to use the old firefox browser and be careful not to follow people too quickly)
For a complete tutorial on how I create niche twitter account and route rss feeds using Adfly, you can read my article on sending RSS feeds to niche twitter accounts.  That article will give you a detailed step by step tutorial with screenshots explaining how to use the Adfly API with twitter.

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The Advantages of Guest Blogging

By on March 3, 2015

A website is the focal point for the online presence of your business. A website is a must have if your online marketing strategy is to succeed. A blog on the other hand is meant to complement the website or to make it complete. A blog is an important requirement if you wish to share some industry knowledge or even give a deeper insight on your business or products.

If you already have a blog on your website, the next positive step to take will be to share content with other blogs. The sharing of blog content with other blogs is referred to as guest blogging. Over the years guest blogging has increased in popularity and most bloggers consider it as an important requirement for any blog to be successful.

How to get started on guest blogging
Getting started as a guest blogger is not very easy since many bloggers would not let just anybody write on their blog. However, the following steps should help you out.
Start by doing some research on blogs and websites that are prevalent on your area of interest or field of specialization.

Once you settle on a few you can reach out and ask if they allow guest posts. Some are open to guest posts while others will show little interest.

If you do not receive a positive feedback from your blog of interest this should not discourage you. A good trick that always works is to follow and comment on their blog posts.

Following their blog will show the blogger that you are interested in their blog and make you part of their community.

Due to this, it will be easy for them to allow you to guest post when you approach them.

Advantages of guest posts
Guest blogging gives one an opportunity to contribute to their respective field. Regardless of the field you specialize in there are many blogs on that topic.

Through guest blogging, you can be able to share your opinions and views with other people with similar interests.

Guest blogging provides an effective way to backlink to your blog. This in turn will increase traffic to your blog, which is important in increasing your readership.
As a good blogger, you should always include a link to your blog where the readers can be able to get more information on the subject you are writing. Most blogs will allow guest loggers to do this.

Another advantage is that it provides you with a larger audience. The blogs that you are guest blogging on already have hundreds or thousands of followers and so by posting on these blogs you will have access to all these readers. When starting a new blog it is difficult to build a large audience but guest blogging helps solve this problem for you.

It helps sharpen your blogging skills by learning from other bloggers. Blogging requires some skills and creativity but experience counts more.

As you guest blog on other blogs you are in the process of learning and soon after you will realize that, your blogging skills will improve tremendously.

Regardless of whether you are posting on your own blog or you are guest posting, one thing that should remain constant is the quality of the content. This is the key factor in blogging success.

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Mobile Application Development Trends For 2015

By on March 2, 2015

“For the developers out there – mobile application development is definitely a lucrative revenue option. However, in order to keep attracting new customers, you must keep abreast of the design trends. Designs that awed in 2014, may not work so well in 2015. Thus, in order to keep your revenues in the black, your designs should be modern and to the latest standards/trends.

To help you, we’ve put together these mobile app development trends of 2015. Remember app development is a lucrative industry, but it is also highly competitive.

Hybrids’ the winner!

The war between native apps, mobile web apps and hybrid apps will end. Hybrid apps will be the clear winner with more and more businesses targeting multiple mobile devices, hybrid will don the title of, “the most cost-effective option.” Gear up and equip yourself to work on hybrid applications.

Get onto the Cloud

The cloud is here to stay. In the age of multiple devices, focus on integrating and synchronizing your apps using cloud technologies. With more and more players scaling to the cloud to host cloud based services, it is only expected grow, with easier and more effortless integration becoming the new norm. The cloud offers offline features and benefits to both traditional desktop and web applications, making it an ultimate necessity.

Android holds its share of the market

Android will continue to rule the roost as it did for the previous years of 2013 (78% of the market) and 2014 (80.2% of the market). The Android platform has a wider consumer base than Apple iOS. If you have the creative marketing budget this year, developing an Android based application will put your business at an advantage.

Parallax scrolling everywhere

Parallax Scrolling is the go-to option to create that awesome app design that is in-depth, intuitive and gets the user attention quickly. Users are quickly glued to apps with parallax scrolling because of the visual appeal it creates with its dynamic and interactive story telling. Also, be informed that it does come with its challenges – longer loading time, it’s tricky on responsive designing and performance levels across devices.

Mobile Payments, mCommerce and Videos

It’s the era of the powerful consumer. With increasing smartphone usage, brands will start to incorporate mobile payments, wallets, gift cards, short video clips and much more into their digital strategies. The security features of apps are important more than ever, too. Brands will fortify their apps with the best security walls.

Gaming apps

Who doesn’t like games! It has always been an attractive segment and it is only expected to grow, grow and grow. Get creative and integrate them with social media accounts within the app itself.

Travel industry pumps up more apps

The travel and tourism industry is adapting to the mobile app concept at rapid rates. Big players now woo their consumers with innovative and creative apps that are just the perfect complimentary travel partners.

The App Marketing Maze

Here comes the biggie! The biggest difficulty with apps in 2015: getting them discovered by the user. Unless you market your creation in newer and innovative ways, however path-breaking it is, it is not going to sell. While in 2014, user engagement was the top priority leading to game changing enhancements, such as the personalized beacons and location based Wi-Fi services. Exploit these opportunities to expand your target base and achieve app loyalty. Re-invent consistently with the times to stay relevant.

As the trends change each year, so does the technology.. It is not limited to just the mobile phones; the industry extends its offerings to tablets, wearables and Internet of Things and so on. These will most certainly be the future trends to look out for.

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