1. Registration - Classic
Click the “join” tab in the upper-right side. You will see a simple form with 3 fields that you need to fill - email address, confirm email and password. Accept terms&conditions and click the “register” button - that’s the orange one. And that’s it! Now check your inbox for an activation email and confirm your email address.
2. Registration: Facebook connect
Click the “join” tab in the upper-right side. You will see a registration page. Click the “connect” button - that’s the blue one. A window will pop-up - use your Facebook data and click “log in”. And that’s it - now you can shorten links and earn money!
3. Account activation
After registration you will receive an activation email with an activation link. We will send it to your email address used for registration. Open the email - and if you don’t see the graphics, simply enable them. Now all you have to do is to “click here” - that’s the orange button. Bum! Your account is activated and you’re already logged in! Shrink&Share
4. Shortening a link
When on home page or on any other subpage you will see our mighty link shortener. - yes that’s the long , green box. Simply paste or type your loooong link and click “shorten”. Now you can copy your short link or shorten another link. All your links are available in “statistics”
5. Sharing a link
Share your shortened links! When logged in, go to the “statistics” page. On the right of each short link - you will find 3 buttons for a quick share. Click one of them - Facebook for example, write a short comment, share it and watch the money flowing in!
6. Sharing a link: Manually
Sharing buttons are not the only way to share your short links - you can do it manually too. Simply copy any short link that you want to share and paste it wherever you want - on twitter for example.
7. Referrals / Affilation
Sharing your short links is not the only way to earn money with shorte.st. You can also invite new users. For each invited user you will receive 20% of their earnings. Go to the “referrals” tab, share your referral link with one click - on Facebook, Twitter, G+!
8. Referrals / Affilation: Manually
Sharing your short links is not the only way to earn money with shorte.st. You can also invite new users. For each invited user you will receive 20% of their earnings. Go to the “referrals” tab, copy and share your referral link - on Facebook, Twitter, G+, www or anywhere you want!
9. Referrals / Affilation: Banners
In the “referrals” tab we’ve prepared promotional banners that you can use on your website, blog or forum. All you have to do is copy the banner code and paste it into your HTML code. Easy peasy! Now the money will start to flow!
10.Tools: Full Page Script
Pure magic - our full page script will transform all your links into the shorte.st form. Copy the code and paste it to the body section of your HTML code. You can include or exclude the domains that you want to shorten. Easy peasy!
11. Tools: Developers API
If you know what the API is, you don’t need explanations!
12.Tools: Quick link
Copy the code from the frame - it contains your personal ID token which is assigned to your account. Change "Yourdestinationlink.com" to ANY link you want. Press enter and BUM - you’re on the destination URL.
13. Tools: Mass Shrinker
Mass Shrinker allows you to shorten up to 20 URLs at a time.
14. Tools: Social Share Widget
You can easily monetize your website's social network shares. All you need to do is to place our Social Share Widget on the page you want to share and earn. All the clicks in social buttons will go through our shortener so you can increase your revenue even more.
15. Withdrawal
As our active user you will want to withdraw the money you’ve earned. REMEMBER - in order to withdraw your money your profile must be fully completed. If not - you can do this anytime, even from the withdraw page. Fill all the fields. Save your details and wait for the transfer. REMEMBER - we pay on the 10th of every month. Minimum withdrawal is $5 for PayPal, $20 for Payoneer and $5 for WebMoney.
