Demystifying Link Shortening: A Critical Analysis of Encurtanet

 🖥️ Category: Production, Technology, Critical Analysis

✍️ Author: Tiago Stocco Sanches Valentin

📅 Date: October 26, 2023

1. Introduction

This article critically analyzes the claim that Encurtanet is a simple and secure way to earn money online, popularized by tutorial videos. Despite the promise of immediate gains and without investment, we’ll deconstruct this narrative, evaluating the viability of the model and identifying potential pitfalls. The goal is to provide a precise and helpful technical analysis for those seeking alternative online income sources, ensuring informed and conscious decisions.

2. Context and Origin of the Content

📍 Source or Location of Circulation: TikTok, YouTube (tutorial videos)

🎬 Type of Content: Video tutorial, presentation of “tricks” for earning money online.

📝 Method of Transcription: Manual transcription of a video tutorial.

🔗 Reference Link: (https://encurta.net)

The original video presents a seductive promise: to earn money online simply and freely, using Encurtanet – a link shortener. The approach, focused on a quick and easy promise, is characteristic of many videos that attract beginners in the digital market.

3. Technical Analysis and Verification

🔎 Key Claims, Data, or Procedures

Central Claim: Encurtanet allows you to earn money through sharing shortened links, which generate revenue from clicks on ads. 

Procedure: Create an Encurtanet account, shorten a link (any link), and share this link. 

Premise: Encurtanet divides a percentage of the revenue generated by clicks on ads viewed on shortened links. 

Focus: The promise of quick and easy gains, without the need for technical knowledge or investment.

🔎 Classification and Evaluation

✅ Verifiable (Partially): The central idea – the existence of link shorteners that pay for clicks – is true. However, the simplification and the promise of easy gains need to be approached with caution. 

⚠️ Imprecise: The claim that Encurtanet is a guaranteed way to earn money is imprecise. The amount of money you can obtain is highly variable and depends on numerous factors. 

❌ False: The assertion that you can "be a YouTuber" to earn money with Encurtanet is false. You don't need a YouTube channel or to create content. 

❓ Not Verifiable: Quantifying the potential earnings is difficult to determine without extensive testing and a significant investment of time.

4. Tutorial and Practical Application

🔹 Step 1: Identifying Values or Premises

The business model of Encurtanet (and other link shorteners) is based on programmatic advertising. Companies pay to display ads on shortened links, and the shortener receives a portion of this revenue.

🔹 Step 2: Processing or Calculation

*   Encurtanet shortens a link, generating a personalized URL.

*   Advertisers pay for their ads to be displayed on websites using this URL.

*   When a user clicks on the ad, Encurtanet receives a portion of the advertiser’s revenue.

*   This revenue is divided between Encurtanet and the original URL owner.

🔹 Step 3: Real Application

1.  Create an Encurtanet account (available on the website indicated in the video description).

2.  Shorten any URL (e.g., a link to a news article, a product on sale, etc.).

3.  Share the shortened link on social media, discussion groups, or by email.

4.  Monitor the shortened link to see if it receives clicks.

🔹 Step 4: Next Steps

*   Test different types of URLs to identify those that generate more clicks.

*   Explore other link shorteners (Bitly, TinyURL, etc.) to compare payment rates.

*   Invest in affiliate marketing to promote shortened links and increase traffic.

 

5. Recommendations and Precautions

Skepticism: Approach promises of easy money with caution. Many link shorteners pay very low rates. 

Diversification: Don't rely solely on Encurtanet to generate income. 

Testing: Experiment with different sharing strategies to optimize results. 

Competition: Consider that many other users may be doing the same.

6. Conclusion and Final Evaluation

📌 Final Summary: Encurtanet is a legitimate link shortener, but its ability to generate significant income is limited. The promise of "being a YouTuber" to earn money with Encurtanet is, at the very least, exaggerated. The key to success lies in generating significant traffic for the shortened link, which depends on external factors.

📊 Overall Reliability Estimate: 🟠 Medium (60%) 

📢 Final Verdict: Encurtanet can be a useful tool for managing links, but it’s not a magic solution for earning money online. Realistic expectations and effort are required to maximize results.

📎 Analyzed Original Content: "Making money online is great, but there's a way to make money that influencers know about, and they keep it a secret because it's so simple it's scary. It's free, you don't have to pay anything, and you can do 100% of what I'm going to show you here. And rather than me talking and talking and talking, let's get straight to the point. It would be good for you to have this money coming into your account in a 100% honest way, etc. If the answer is yes, let's get started, but leave your like, because that helps me bring these videos to you, so leave your like and subscribe, click on the subscribe button there and enable the bell. Just by doing that, I'll keep bringing you videos that can make us angry when I bring these videos that teach and make people earn money. You've done your part, now come with me, remembering that you can do all of this here on your own. side. You don't need a computer for anything, okay? You're going to search here on Google for encurtanet. It will come up on this first site. I just created an account here with you and Tiago. Remember, I'm not getting anything for recommending this to you. It's because there are influencers who are keeping this under wraps and making a lot of money from it. Just so you understand, encurtanet is a link shortener. I'll give you a practical example practical example here. Imagine you want to take people to the Google website. You'll copy the Google address, put it here, and shorten the link. Then you shorten the Google link and put it here so that some random ads appear, and click on shorten. Done! It turned into this link here. See? So every time someone clicks on this link, just because they clicked on it, we get a percentage of the money that the person saw in those ads. So, EncurtaNet works this way: it shares a little of the money that is collected when people see the ads, and that's why influencers keep this a secret, because almost all of them use it. Here's a practical example: I go to this guy's channel, and in the description link, here's EncurtaNet, so he's taking people somewhere, but with EncurtaNet, he's making money every single day for every click someone leaves there. Tiago, so do I have to be a YouTuber to make money with Encuranet? No, on the contrary, you don't need to appear on your cell phone. You can do it 100% for free, without investing a single real in it."