URL Shortener NXY.IN That Earns Money and Gets Web Traffic

What is URL Shortener?

URL shortening services are created for such social networks like Twitter. All we know, that Twitter allows us to use only 140 characters per one message. So this is very good idea to shorten our huge post links like the one I have for this post – http://www.iwoodpecker.com/url-shortener-nxy-that-earns-money-and-gets-web-traffic .

Which URL shortener is the best?

It’s easy to guess, that the best url shortener is the one, that makes the shortest URL out of your natural URL. Well, I wanted to make a list of those shorteners to choose from, but there is already some nice compilation at Wikipedia.

Why NXY.IN is so special?

First of all, NXY.IN is comparatively short itself. And it does a good shortening job as well. But it’s not the only one reason, why I’m talking about it now. NXY.IN has also the opportunity to make money for you and to drive traffic to your website.

How Does It Make Money?

It’s easy. Login to NXY with your Twitter account > go to the top option “Ads Settings” > paste your AdSense publisher ID and the ID of your channel. In order to display some special ad, you should make another ad code in your AdSense account or you can use your old one, if you’ve had some, which is not bigger, than 468×60 px. Check out the pic how your option should look like.

If you don’t want to use AdSense, you can make your own banner – 468×60 is the max size for NXY. It will appear in the top left corner. Tip: it makes sense, when you shorten others sites’ URLs. You can, actually, use your blog’s banner with NXY. So.. it lets you to promote others without forgetting of yourself :)

Moreover, there’s a distribution Twitter button in the top right corner of the shortened URL and the option to cancel that bar. So, if a user doesn’t want to see your ad or this bar at all – he can turn it off. Let me show you all those features…

How does it get web traffic?

It doesn’t get traffic directly by your wish, but it does get traffic, if your shortened links become popular. If they are popular, and you did everything you could to show those links, you can get to the section of “Top Articles” or “Today’s Hot”, which supposed to bring you some extra traffic.

First of all, track your links stats:

If you did well, then you might get to the right tab of your account, which is, actually, more like a “social activity top”. It looks like this:

I’d say, that it’s hard to make your links viewed on Twitter, unless you have more, than 2,000/3,000 followers (I’m not speaking about targeted followers). The best way is to use NXY URL shortener beyond Twitter: profiles, forums, social media sites, in comments, on your website etc.

Minuses of NXY.IN

1. Ads in shortened links. You might lose some piece of your audience, if there are those, who don’t like ads;

2. My own experience – I have a total of 300+ views. And there are still no clicks on ads. Why did I mention this fact here? Because of AdSense. I think it’s not that attractive to earn money from it. But I might be wrong and it’s all about your viewers and the number of views :) ;

3. It’s not that easy to get traffic. You have to work on your total number of views.

Updated on the 13th Jan. 2010

NXY have changed their design, but the principles are the same. You can get money, you can get traffic with this service.. blah blah blah :)

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