Adjix: Monetize your shrinkage

Is “shrinkage” ever a good thing? Actually, Jerry Seinfeld notwithstanding, yes! If you don’t know about shrinkage as it applies to the internet, learn the basics first , then come back and learn how to make money with it. I’ll wait.

There are rumblings that TinyURL, the oldest and probably most well-known URL shortener on the ‘nets, may not be the best link shrinker to use any more, mainly because you can’t track clicks.  There are many other free shorteners that allow you to track your clicks. Adjix.com gives you the option of monetizing your clicks as well. 

Adjix frames the target site and places a narrow white strip ad in the top frame.  The linker can choose the genre of ads from these options.  The visitor has the option of removing the ad  but he doesn’t have to in order to see the content. Adjix.com pays $0.10 CPM  when someone clicks in to  links you generated with their service, and $0.20 per click if someone actually clicks the ad.  (Note: These were the rates at this writing; obviously they are subject to change.)  Furthermore, adjix lets you cloak the fact that you are using adjix by doing a little DNS wizardry that is beyond the scope of this post.  The reason you would want to cloak is that there are a sizable number of web surfers, virtually all of whom have very high paying jobs, who believe that all advertising is evil, and on principle, will not visit a monetized link of any kind.     They really begrudge the fact that  a linker, who is likely un- or underemployed,  might earn a whopping $0.0001 from their click.

For an example adjix experience click http://adjix.com/x5w4 or my cloaked version http://pr.tixr.us/x5w4 and see what my prize mole recipe on my other blog looks like with adjix on it.

Geeks:  I wrote a little adjix class called adjix.php to help people put adjix into their PHP web apps.  It is in PHP5. I’m done dumbing everything down for PHP4. If you’re still stuck on 4 you can dumb it down yourself. You can download the class, and here is a snippet of code you can use to call it.

require_once('adjix.php');
$ur_email = ''; //YOUR_ADJIX_EMAIL;
$ur_cloakdom = ''; // YOUR_CLOACKING_DOM;  //it is optional
$ur_url = ''; // YOUR URL;

$adjix = new Adjix( $ur_email, $ur_cloakdom);
try {
    $answer =  $adjix->makeLink($ur_url,ADJX_Entertainment);
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo "caught exception " ,  $e->getMessage() , "n";
}

echo $answer;  // or do whatever with it!

I just wish Adjix would get in the 21st century and pay out via Paypal. Checks are sooooooo archaic!