How to Start an Online Business From Home: 2 Website Ideas

Many people want to start an online business from home. One good way is to own a website that earns money from ads. This guide shows two website ideas: a short link website with AdLinkFly and an article website with PressFly. You will learn how these websites earn money, what you need, and the first steps to start.

Important: earnings are not guaranteed. Your results depend on your visitors, your work, and the ad networks you use.

How this business works

You own the website. Your members share links or articles, and the visitors they send see ads on your website. Ad networks pay you for these ads. You pay your members a part of this money. Members work to send more visitors, because they earn too.

1. Members share short links or articles.
2. Visitors open them.
3. Visitors see the ads on your website.
4. Ad networks pay you for the ads.
5. You pay your members a part and keep the rest.

This is an example only. Earnings are not guaranteed.

Most ad networks pay for every 1,000 views of their ads. This amount is called CPM. You also set a CPM rate for your members. Your profit is the difference between what ad networks pay you and what you pay your members.

Two website ideas

1. A short link website with AdLinkFly: visitors see an ad before the link opens.
2. An article website with PressFly: visitors read articles with ads on the page.

Both are self-hosted PHP scripts. Self-hosted means that you install the script on your own hosting. We do not host it for you. The website and its data are yours.

Idea 1: A short link website (AdLinkFly)

People share many links every day, on social networks, in chat groups, and in forums. On a short link website, your members make their links short and share them. Before a visitor reaches the link, the visitor sees an ad page with a short countdown. Websites like AdFly and ouo.io work in this way.

• Members shorten links. They create short links one by one or many at once.
• Visitors see an ad. It is a full-page ad or a banner ad, based on the member's plan.
• Each view is checked. Your rules decide which views are real views that earn money. Examples are a daily limit for each visitor and proxy detection.
• Members earn. For each 1,000 qualified views, a member earns your CPM rate for the visitor's country.
• You earn. You show ads from ad networks, or you let advertisers buy ad campaigns on your website.

Read more: How a Monetized URL Shortener Website Works, AdFly and ouo.io Alternative, and AdLinkFly earning modes.

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Idea 2: An article website (PressFly)

Many people like to write. On an article website, your members write articles and share them. Readers visit the articles, and your ads show on the article pages. Medium works in a similar way.

• Members write articles. The editor supports text, images, and videos.
• Readers visit the articles. They come from social networks, chat groups, and search engines.
• Each view is checked. Examples of rules are a reading time based on the article length and a daily limit for each reader.
• Writers earn. For each 1,000 qualified views, a writer earns your CPM rate for the reader's country.
• You earn. You earn from the ads on the article pages.

Read more: Websites Like Medium, How do writers earn money with PressFly?, and How does the site owner earn money with PressFly?

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Can I run both websites?

Yes. PressFly can show AdLinkFly short links inside its articles. You can start with one idea and add the other one later.

What you need

1. A domain name. This is your website address, for example yoursite.com. You pay for it every year.
2. Web hosting. This is the server that runs your website. Check the hosting requirements on the product page first. Read how to choose hosting.
3. The script. AdLinkFly or PressFly. You pay once, and you get 1 year of updates and support.
4. Ad network accounts. These companies pay you to show their ads. See the list below.
5. A way to pay your members. For example PayPal, Skrill, or Bitcoin. You add your own withdrawal methods in the script.
6. Time to promote your website. Visitors do not come by themselves.

Ad networks you can try

An ad network is a company that pays you to show its ads on your website. Website owners often use these networks:

For short link websites and article websites:

• Adsterra
• AdMaven
• Monetag (formerly PropellerAds)
• Adcash
• PopAds
• Bidvertiser
• A-ADS, an ad network that pays in crypto money
• Or any other ad network

For article websites only:

• Google AdSense
• Media.net

Google AdSense and Media.net are strict about content. Your website needs good, original articles. They usually do not accept short link ad pages.

Please note: we are not connected to these companies, and we have no control over them. We cannot make an ad network accept your website, and we cannot change its decision. Each company decides if it accepts or refuses your website, and it sets its own rules. Read their rules before you add their ads. Many ad networks close accounts that send fake visits.

Your roadmap

1. Choose your idea. Short links or articles? Try the AdLinkFly demo and the PressFly demo first.
2. Get a domain and hosting. Check the hosting requirements of your script.
3. Install the script. Buy AdLinkFly or PressFly, download it from your account, upload it to your hosting, and run the installer.
4. Open ad network accounts. Add their ad codes to your website.
5. Set member rates. Pay your members less than your ads earn. Start with low rates. You can raise them later.
6. Promote your website. Read the next part.

Where to find your first visitors

1. Friends and family. Ask them to use your website and to share it.
2. Forums. Join talks about your topic. Follow the rules of each forum about links.
3. Social networks. Share useful links and articles on your pages and in groups.
4. Video channels. Show how your website works and how members earn.
5. Chat groups. Share in Telegram and WhatsApp groups that allow it.
6. Search engines. Write useful pages, so people find your website on Google.

Never send spam. It can get your website and your ad accounts blocked.

Help your first members. Answer their questions fast, and pay them on time. Happy members tell other people about your website.

The hard parts

Please read this part before you start. A website business is real work.

• Visitors are the hardest part. A new website has no visitors. You need time and work to get them.
• Ad networks decide, not us. Some networks do not accept short link websites. Some networks accept you, and later close your account if they see fake visits. We have no control over these decisions.
• Fake views cost you money. Some people use bots to earn. Use the traffic rules in the script, for example a daily limit for each visitor and proxy detection.
• Members want their money on time. Ad networks pay you on their own dates. Keep some money ready to pay your members.
• There is competition. Many short link and article websites exist. Choose a topic or a country where you can be different.

Earnings are not guaranteed. Some websites earn well, and some never earn. It depends on your visitors, your work, and your ad networks.

Which idea fits you?

• Choose a short link website if your future members share many links in chat groups or on social networks.
• Choose an article website if your future members like to write, and you want visitors from search engines.

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Start today

You now know the idea, what you need, and the first steps. Try the demos first. When you are ready, buy the script for your idea. Buy AdLinkFly for a short link website, or PressFly for an article website. If you have questions, ask us before you buy.