Tips to make money with Adobe PDF Ads

Adobe and Yahoo! have teamed up to bring PPC [Pay per click] ads to PDF files that are distributed over Internet and emails. The Ads served by Yahoo! inside the PDF viewer of Adobe will be contextual in nature and based on the content of the PDF file being viewed. Via [News.com]

How does Adobe PDF Ads work?

Publishers will have to upload their PDF files to Yahoo’s ad system and when those PDF files are downloaded and viewed, publishers earn for PDF views and clicks. The performance of the ads and clicks can be tracked through the Yahoo’s ad system. Mind though, Yahoo! currently allows only US publishers. So if you are from a country other than US, you might have to just wait for Yahoo! to open up their ad system to other countries or Adobe to switch to a different ad company such as Google.

How can you make money from Adobe PDF Ads?

The key to making money with Adobe PDF ads is large circulation of your PDF content on Internet and emails. This further boils down to content that has potential to get attention of users and getting circulated amongst users. The type of PDF content that’s usually downloaded and viewed many times are as follows:

1. Cheat Sheets - Games cheat sheet of various games, programming languages etc. Create one for each game, language etc.
2. Technical/non-technical guides - Could be anything as long as it’s useful and helps people.
3. Reference guides - For programmers, engineers, HTML color codes etc. Also, HowTo guides are very popular amongst people on Internet.
4. White papers - They don’t last very long, but are frequently downloaded.
5. Manifestos - Checkout ChangeThis.com, there are other sites similar to ChangeThis. Create a Manifesto and submit it. If you write a good one, it can quickly start circulating and keep going around for a very long time.

Now that you know what type of content gets attention, go for it. Create those cheat sheets of games, programming languages, one sheet lookups, white papers, tech guides and reference guides and make money from Adobe PDF Ads.

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