CPMlink Review 2018 – Make Money Online by Shrinking and Sharing URLs

What is CPMlink?

CPMlink is a paying URL shortener that pays the user every time someone clicks on their links. Unfortunately I couldn’t get their service to work at all, so I will not be able to review their shrinking service in detail. If they fix the many issues I had and have something resembling a working website, I will revisit this review.

CPMlink Features

Link Shortening

Couldn’t even get CPMlink to shrink one link.

CPMlink Tools

Mass Shrinker: Lets you shrink many URLs at a time.
Quick Link: Lets you shrink a link from your browser without needing to be logged in.
Full Page Script: Lets you shrink all/most of the links on your website.

Statistics

Couldn’t test.

Withdrawing Earnings

You may request a withdrawal once you’ve reached the minimum withdrawal amount of $5.00 USD.

Referrals

You get 5% of every referral’s earnings for life.

Payout Rates

Payout rates for URL shorteners are usually mainly based on Unique VisitorsMeaning one person can't count as a unique visitor more than once per day, no matter how many links they visit. Some URL shorteners have shorter/longer waiting periods before counting the returning visitor as unique again., Visitor’s LocationURL shorteners payout based on that visitor's country and rates will vary from site to site., Ad-BlockersVisitors that use ad-blocking software may impact your earnings as some URL shorteners do not count their views., Advertiser Specs/OrdersSome URL shorteners, such as Adf.ly, allow advertisers to customize their orders which can increase/decrease how much you will earn. Also, your earnings will depend on how many advertisers they have using their service for promotion. and some other factors. Each URL shortener may handle these factors/policies differently which means your earnings could vary greatly from one URL shortening service to another. As a general rule-of-thumb, you should expect to earn around $0.60 – $2.00 per 1000 views for most URL shorteners. But it is very possible to earn hundreds of dollars from URL shorteners with enough work and effort.

*rates shown above are for every 1000 unique visitors*

You can view all of their rates Here. The rates shown above may have changed since writing this, so be sure and check them for yourself.

Payment Methods

1. PayPal (Minimum: $5.00)

2. Payza (Minimum: $5.00)

3. Bitcoin (Minimum: $5.00)

Pros and Cons

Pros:

• Easy Sign up and website navigation is simple.

Cons:

• Couldn’t shrink a single link.
• When trying to shrink links, CPMlink was trying to load scripts from an unsafe source.
• Certain pages on the site are extremely slow, often taking longer than 10 seconds to load.
• Website is clearly created from the same template that many other bad URL shorteners have used. One would think that you would at least have a working shrinking system in place when you can focus all your efforts on that instead of designing an original looking website.

Conclusion

Avoid this site and instead use something like Shorte.st or Adf.ly. Nothing much else to say here.