Monetising Outbound Links With Adf.ly

Outbound links are links that direct/send your visitors away from your page or site, this can be both a good and a bad thing. There is different options on whether or not to link out. Some think that you leak and lose PR by linking to others and they tend not to link out, others (like me) think that linking out helps to provide more information to users and also direct visitors to useful content. Others, don't really think about it or care.

One thing I know for sure is that outbound links can be little gems when it comes to making money online from your site.

Monetising outbound Links with Adf.ly

To monetise our links we are going to be using Adf.ly, a link shortening service that pays.

Adf.ly have a few useful little ad scripts, that automatically convert links to paid links.
They mainly direct visitors through 2 types of ads, Interstitial or Framed Banner so it would be a good idea to test out these types of links before proceeding. You can sign up to Adf.ly for free here

Full page script with exclusions

The script we need is the Adf.ly full page script. It is used to automatically change all site links to paid links. We don't want this, we want just our outbound links, not site links to be monetized but that's cool, we can just configure it. The full page script allows you to exclude or include certain URLs, domains or pages by simply adding them to the list.
Adf.ly provide instructions on their site, and it is very simple to use so please sign up and check them out. Don't worry, its free and only takes a couple of minutes.

What to exclude or include

Personally I don't think its a great idea to be monetising your internal links with Adf.ly, so add your site domain/URL to the exclusion script, this way only links to other sites will be monetised. Its also a good idea to exclude other URLs that you don't want an ad to show on depending on needs.

What type of ads should be used?

This depends on what type of content you offer and how annoying you want to be to your visitors. Using framed banner ads is less intrusive and allows visitors to view content directly where as interstitial makes visitors have to wait and skip an ad before seeing the content which can be very annoying.
I would say use framed ads as they are less annoying, but they pay much much less so have a think about it. Also, check out this post...

Adf.ly: Make Money with Intermission and Framed Ads 

Sorry this isn't a step by step guide, but these scrpits are so simple that if you took 2 mins to check them out they wouldn't need any explaining.
To find out more about these scripts and to start monetising outbound links visit Adf.ly, its free.

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