Today in this
article i am going to compare three very popular URL shortener websites
on the basis of features and facilities offered by them so that you can
select the best one for yourself.
All these three shorten URL services are very popular and offer
various different facilities to their users. So, in this article i will
try to focus on the major facilities and features offered by these URL
shorteners and also, i will consider some factors like legitimacy, user
ratings etc to compare these sites.
Here i will discuss about these sites one by one and i hope at the
end of this article you will be able to choose the best service for
yourself.
| Features & Facilities |
Ratings |
- Adf.ly is online since 2009 and serving its publishers without any
major issues. A spam site cannot remain online for that long period, so,
on trust ratings and legitimacy Adf.ly gets the full marks.
|
|
- Unlike other URL shorteners Adf.ly offers three different kind of Ad formats which are Interstitial Ads, Framed Banner Ads and Pop Under Ads.
Since, Adf.ly has recently included Pop Under ads in its advertising
solutions, so, it increases the chances of earnings for website and blog
owners. Since, Pop Under Ads are not conventional ads offered by URL
shorteners, so, i am excluding it from this comparison but still Adf.ly
offers two different ad formats which gives it a above hand from other
URL shorteners. So, for this i am giving it a 5 out of 5.
|
|
- Now, if we talk about payout rates offered by Adf.ly, so, i can say
that it offers very high payout rates at least for specific countries.
Like most of the URL shorteners Adf.ly also offers different payout
rates for countries. At the time of writing this article Adf.ly was
offering 9.21$/1000 visitors for US traffic and the lowest was
0.22$/1000 visitors for two countries. Otherwise overall payout rates
for most of the countries are average. However, These rates change on
daily basis, so, it may be possible that you may get high rates
sometimes or you may get average rates but after analyzing this site for
few months i have concluded that you will never get low rates. So, for
payout rates i am giving it 4 out of 5.
|
|
- Adf.ly offers a wide range of tools that publishers can use to
increase their earnings. Adf.ly offers almost all the necessary tools
that a good URL shortener site offers and over that i think Adf.ly
offers more than enough tools, so, you will never feel like you are
missing something. So, again it deserves a 5 out of 5.
|
|
- Minimum payment threshold on Adf.ly is 5$, which is very competitive
and low too. So, even newbies can reach this minimum payout limit with
little efforts to cash-out their earnings. So, for minimum payout i am
giving it a 5 out of 5.
|
|
- Adf.ly process payments on daily basis or you can say that payments
are made on demand. But there is a condition, your first payment will be
send by their monthly automated system and after that you will be
eligible for daily payments. So, in short you can say that Adf.ly pays
on daily basis. So, again it gets a 5 out of 5.
|
|
- Adf.ly offers three different payment options to its users, which are PayPal,
Payza and Payoneer. So, you can cash-out your earnings through any of
the above payment processors. Since it offers more than one payment
option so, again i will give it a 5 out of 5.
|
|
|
>>Visit Adf.ly<<
|
| Features & Facilities |
Ratings |
- Shorte.st is online since 2013 and it is also serving its publishers
and advertisers without any major issues. Sorte.st is also a very
popular website and it has also gained high user trust ratings. In these
three years, Shorte.st has shown its worth and by paying its publishers
without any issues or delays it has proved that it is here to stay.
Although
Shorte.st has proved its worth but it is new as compared to Adf.ly and
Linkbucks, so, it has to travel some more distance to get the popularity
like Adf.ly or Linkbucks. Since, it is new as compared to its
competitors Adf.ly and Linkbucks, so, i am giving it a 4 out of 5. After being online for 3 years i believe it also deserves a 5 out 5.
|
|
- Unlike Adf.ly, Shorte.st only offers Interstitial ads,
which are full page ads offered by almost all the paid URL shorteners.
But since it is offering only single ad format so i am giving it a 3 out
of 5.
|
|
- Payout rates offered by Shorte.st are high,
neither very high
nor very low. But if we compare it with Adf.ly then you can clearly see
that Shorte.st payout rates are low as compared to Adf.ly. But Shorte.st
rates are high as compared to Linkbucks. Now it is offering very
high rates. At the time of updating this article Shorte.st was offering
highest rate for US traffic which was 14.43$/1000 visitor and the lowest
rate for a country which was 0.50$/1000 visitors. Since it offers high
rates for most of the countries, so, i am giving it a 5 out of 5.
|
|
- Shorte.st offers a wide variety of tools instead i can say with the
variety of tools it also offers some innovative tools too. In terms of
tools, i simply say that Shorte.st is best. With the tools offered by
Shorte.st you can increase your earnings by a huge margin. So, overall
for tools without any hesitation i am giving it a 5 out of 5.
|
|
- Like Adf.ly, Minimum payout on Shorte.st is also 5$, which is easily
achievable with their high rates and wide range of powerful tools. So,
it again deserves a 5 out of 5
|
|
- Shorte.st pays its users on Monthly basis, so, this is the major
thing that makes it different from both Adf.ly and Linkbucks which are
paying its publishers on Daily basis. So, in terms of Payment Frequency,
Shorte.st is way behind Adf.ly and Linkbucks and therefore i am giving
it a 3 out of 5.
|
|
- Like Adf.ly, Shorte.st also offers three different payment options to its users, which are PayPal, Payoneer and WebMoney. Since it offers three different payment options to its users, so, i give it 5 out of 5.
|
|
|
>>Visit Shorte.st<<
|
|
| Features & Facilities |
Ratings |
- Linkbucks is online since 2005 and it is also paying its users
without any issues. It is also one of the very popular URL shortener
after Adf.ly. Since it is one of the oldest URL shortener and is paying
its users without any issues, so, there is no doubt about its legitimacy
and therefore it gets a 5 out 5.
|
|
- Linkbucks offers two type of Ads which are interstitial ads and link locker ads.
Basically link locker ads are also interstitial ads but they ask users
to do a task before redirecting them to the destination page.(Update: Linkbuck no longer offers link locker ads) Linkbucks is a
CPA, CPM
model based URL shortener whereas Adf.ly and Shorte.st are only CPM
based URL shorteners. And also, Linkbucks offers its service for both Adult and Non Adult content links, which means with Linkbucks you can monetize both adult as well as your non adult content links. Since, it is offering two ad formats i.e. both CPA and CPM ads and also it is allowing its users to short both adult and non adult content links so, i am giving it a 5 out of 5.
|
|
- Linkbucks offers decent payout rates. But as compared to Adf.ly, its payout rates are low.
But if we compare it with Shorte.st then we can say that both are offering same rates.
However, at the time of writing this article its rates were the lowest
among the three. The highest rate was 1.92/1000 visitors for United Arab
Emirates traffic and the lowest was 0.00$/1000 visitors for few
countries. Although the rates were low at the time of writing this
article but personally i have seen it offering very high payout rates.
Since, payout rates update on daily basis, so, its better for you to
check the payout rates before joining Linkbucks. Because its rates are
low as compared to both Shorte.st and Adf.ly, so, i am giving it a 3 out
of 5.
|
|
- In terms of tools, Linkbucks is also not behind any other URL
shortener. Linkbucks also offers all the necessary tools that we seek
from any URL shortener. So, for tools i gets a 5 out of 5.
|
|
- The Minimum Payout on Linkbucks is high as compared to both Adf.ly and Linkbucks, which is 10$. But since it
offers both CPA and CPM ads and also
allows users to monetize their adult and non adult content links, so,
you can easily reach your minimum payout limit. But still the rates are
low as compared to Adf.ly and Shorte.st, so, i am giving it a 3 out of
5.
|
|
- Like Adf.ly, Linkbucks pays its users on demand that is on daily
basis. And also, there is no first payment kind condition on Linkbucks.
So, in terms of Payment Frequency it scores full marks that is 5 out of
5.
|
|
- Unlike Adf.ly and Shorte.st, Linkbucks offers only two payment options to its users, which are PayPal
and Payoneer. But previously Linkbucks supports some other payment
processors like Liberty Reserve and Payza but as we know Liberty reserve
has shut down and Payza has withdrawn from US market, so, it has to
remove them from its payment options. But, i think it should provide few
more payment options and therefore, i am giving it a 4 out of 5.
|
|
|
>>Visit Linkbucks<<
|
|
Conclusion:
From the above comparison, we can clearly see that Adf.ly wins by a
huge margin but since all these three URL shorteners have their pros and
cons, so, you can choose a service which best suits your needs. But
overall, all the three sites are very popular so you can give them a try
without any hesitation.
Also read CPM & CPC:
loading...
Today in this
article i am going to compare three very popular URL shortener websites
on the basis of features and facilities offered by them so that you can
select the best one for yourself.
Komentar
Posting Komentar