Need Advice Guys. Please Help

Hello Friends,

I am planning to start my own URL Shortner Service.

Can anyone tell me how much will it cost & What are the revenue generation models for it?

Please Help

 

I know one of the most popular free URL shortner software is http://yourls.org/

As sarahk said beware that it's probably going to be more of a headache than you want to deal with. I've ran across another thread echoing the same concerns from their hosting provider. If you still want give a shot, here's some info I found for you:

How to make money from users

• The principal thing is advertising on the shortening site.
• Mostly CPM comes up as a guaranteed way of getting paid
• Banners might work, too, especially as part of a banner exchange, because even if people don't click through you are building up credits in the banner exchanges you participate in
• Place cookies to be picked up by different advertising networks that the browser might be exposed to as they surf different sites

Broader ways of making money:

• Collect and resell the tracking data
• For dead links, replace with related affiliate links, CPA offers

Things that make the service valuable (and might incentivize people to pay for it):

• Ability to customize URLs
• Stats - tracking of hits
• Ability to change destination URLs
• Abilty to make them super short
  • (so, say, one tier for 3 digits and one for more?
  • 26 letters plus 10 numbers, that is 36*36*36=46,656 unique combos in 3 characters
• Have people pay for links to last forever, else for free members expire them after a while

 

As you are not google and twitter, you can get only headache with no profit unfortunately

 

Hi
Maybe you can check this link and see who the freelance programmers that can package such a website for you here
1] https://www.freelancer.com/projects/PHP-Software-Architecture/URL-shortener-with-extra-coding.html
2]-- I saw this script and you may check it out too
http://scripteen.com/scripts/scripteen-free-url-shortener.html
Hope this helps
David

 

Get details on you queries here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=508132
Get API to start your business here: http://blog.programmableweb.com/2012/10/31/71-url-shortener-apis-bit-ly-google-url-shortener-and-tiny-url-open/

 

I think its a good move from you so i don't have no idea the expense of it but it can really well known if you go for a proper way to promote it online and give you a really good benefits.