Shorte.st - Get paid to Shorten URL

URL shortening services are nothing new to us, as a matter of fact, even the social networks, media giants and companies are using URL shortening services and these are pretty cool. Whenever we want to share a link with someone we link to shrink it first, but did you know, you can make money by shortening links ? If not, well, good morning, there are actually services will pay you for shrinking URLs. Now, the question you'll be having in your mind must be, how and why ? So the simple answer is advertisement. When you shorten a link with the service like this, the user clicking on the link first lands on a page with ads and after a few seconds (usually 5) he can choose to skip the ad and then he'll be redirected to the actual page. No doubt there are many websites that will pay you for shortening URLs, but shorte.st is cooler, prettier and better service.

[Bit.ly - the most popular URL shortner]

Shorte.st helps you to make money by monetizing your links. If you already own a website/blog, or you've many followers on social networks and you share plenty of links every day to your followers, then it's something you'd like the most, as it's gonna make you money without doing any extra work, all you need to do is shorten a link and then share it with the others. Just in case you've a website that has many links on each and every page, you can get script from the dashboard of your shorte.st account and add it to your webpage, this script will help you monetize all your links without you doing anything and if you own a WordPress blog/site, Shorte.st has a WordPress plugin that can do all the job for you by itself.

The minimum payout with the shorte.st is $5, which you can receive using PayPal or Payoneer. Shorte.st is better than the other services as it serves premium ads only which means you'll earn more for every ad that's being viewed. You can ask your friends to join shorte.st with your referral link, which will benefit you as the shorte.st will pay you 20% of what your friends earn. Another cool thing about shorte.st is, it uses SH.ST as the short domain for your trimmed URLs, which is very clean and very short domain. Start making money, Happy Sharing.