Questions and answers

AdFoc.us, often written AdFocus, is a link shortener that pays you for the visitors your download links bring.

Paste a download link, like a file on your website or a Minecraft mod you posted on a forum, and we give you a short adfoc.us link. Share it, and you earn money from the people who click it. They see one ad on a clean page, and after about 9 seconds a Continue button takes them to the file.

No. Signing up and making links is free.

Yes. They get the file without installing anything or signing up. We check every new ad and the page it opens before it runs, and an ad's page may not open new windows. Read how ads are checked.

Pay depends on the country each visitor comes from. The United States usually pays the most, because advertisers value those visits most. The exact rates are on the payout rates page. They can change, and repeat visits from the same address earn less.

Yes, but we pay less for repeat visits from the same IP address. That keeps traffic good for advertisers and our rates high. If much of your traffic is repeat visits, read our Duplicate IP Address Policy in the forum.

Yes. You earn 20% of what the people you refer earn, for life. Referral commissions are paid with your link earnings.

We pay once you have $10.00 or more since your last payment, and your first payment works the same way. The minimum covers the fees of sending money.

Every month. Last month's earnings and referral commissions go into your balance, and from the 7th you can check or request your payment on the Payouts page. Request it, or turn on automatic payments and it goes out by itself. We check each payment against our terms, then send it in a fair amount of time. No set date.

By PayPal or Bitcoin. You choose in your account.

Only if you live in the United States. Once your payments for the year reach $2,000, we ask for a W-9 in your account before the next payment goes out. Nobody else needs a tax form.

Some payments need a longer review. For any question about yours, open a support ticket.

Yes. Open your own links any time to check they work and to see what your visitors see. What gets an account banned is faking views: bots, proxies, traffic exchanges, click rings or software that clicks for you. We check every account's traffic before each payment. See the Terms and Conditions.

Our Terms and Conditions list every place links may not go. The main ones:

• social media, YouTube, and chat apps like Discord, Telegram or WhatsApp
• game server messages (MOTD) or in-game, in any game
• traffic exchange, paid-to-click and autosurf sites, or other short link sites
• adult or anime sites, and mcpedl.com, 9gag.com, funnyjunk.com or tumblr.com
• spam in forums, chats, comments or blogs

Breaking them can get your account warned or banned.

You see a message about the ban when you log in. A ban is final: the account is not reinstated and all its earnings are forfeited. We only ban when we are very sure the terms were broken.

It means we found a breach of our terms on your account, and it shows on the Payouts page in your Dashboard. You get one chance to appeal by contacting us. If you don't, or the appeal is denied, the earnings are forfeited and the flag stays.

We remove the flag and send your payment. This happens often, because mistakes happen. We decide each appeal in a fair amount of time, with no set date.

Make your campaign, add money and submit it. We check every new ad and its page before it runs. Once it is approved, it shows as long as there is money on your account, within the budget and schedule you set. Start on the Advertise page.

Your bid for every 1,000 views of your ad, until your money runs out. We set the bid for you, and you can change it. You pay by card through Stripe.

No. Money you add is for your ads and is not refunded. See the Advertiser terms.