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Avoid These Mistakes in Hilltopads Tutorial: Learn from the Pros

0h 10m video Published Dec 20, 2023 Transcribed Aug 1, 2026 V Victor Bigbro
Beginner 7 min read For: Beginners looking to monetize web traffic, especially those without a website who want to use direct linking.
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"Title promises pro-level mistake avoidance, but the video is a basic sign-up and direct-linking tutorial padded with engagement bait."

AI Summary

This video is a beginner-friendly walkthrough of HilltopAds, a traffic monetization platform. The host demonstrates how to sign up, verify an email, add a site, create direct links, and use AI tools and free blogging sites to earn money from clicks. It also covers payment methods, minimum payout thresholds, and the referral program.

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What is HtopAds?

HtopAds is a traffic monetization platform that lets you earn from your site traffic, positioning itself as a powerful alternative to AdSense.

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Multiple accounts prohibited

The terms of service forbid multiple accounts per user; creating duplicate accounts can result in a ban.

[03:32]
Mainstream vs non-mainstream categories

When adding a site, choose 'mainstream' for content viewable by all audiences or 'non-mainstream' for age-restricted material.

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Domain verification

Verify your domain by uploading a file provided by HtopAds to your website's root directory.

[05:07]
Minimum payouts

Withdrawals require $20 for PayPal/WebMoney/Payeer, $50 for Bitcoin/USDT, and $11,000 for wire transfer.

[05:59]
Referral program pays 5%

You earn 5% of advertiser spend and 5% of publisher earnings for users you refer to the platform.

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Earning without a website

Use writer.me or ChatGPT to write an article, publish on Google Sites or Blogger, then monetize it with a direct link from HtopAds.

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Direct linking explained

Create a direct link in the Sites section; visitors see an ad when they open it, and you earn per click.

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Potential earnings for beginners

Beginners can make $100–$200 using Google Sites and Blogger with the direct link strategy.

HilltopAds offers a straightforward way to monetize traffic through direct links and site ads, with low payout thresholds for crypto and PayPal. Even beginners without a website can start earning by pairing AI-generated articles with free publishing platforms.

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Tutorial Checklist

1 00:15 Go to htopads.com or use the link in the description.
2 01:09 Click 'Publishers' and fill in your name, email, password, agree to terms, then click 'Sign Up'.
3 02:02 Open your email and click the confirmation link to verify your account.
4 03:07 In the dashboard, go to 'Manage Site' > 'Add Site', enter your domain, and choose 'Mainstream' or 'Non-mainstream'.
5 03:59 Verify your domain by uploading the provided file to your site's root directory.
6 07:07 Create an article using writer.me or ChatGPT.
7 07:35 Publish the article on Google Sites or Blogger.
8 07:58 On HtopAds, go to 'Direct Link', enter a name, select 'Mainstream', add it, then copy the generated link and place it in your article.

Study Flashcards (8)

What is the minimum payout for PayPal and WebMoney on HtopAds?

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$20

05:07

What is the minimum payout for Bitcoin and USDT?

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$50

05:32

What is the minimum payout for wire transfer?

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$11,000

05:32

What percentage do you earn from referrals on advertiser spending?

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5%

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What are the two content categories for sites on HtopAds?

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Mainstream and non-mainstream (age-restricted)

03:32

What is prohibited by HtopAds terms of service?

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Multiple accounts for a single user; violators can be banned.

01:35

How can you verify your domain on HtopAds?

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By uploading a file provided by the site to your domain.

03:59

What is the direct link feature on HtopAds?

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It creates a link that shows ads to visitors, earning you money per click.

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πŸ’‘ Key Takeaways

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Monetize traffic with HtopAds as an AdSense alternative

Provides context for the platform's value and differentiates it from mainstream ad networks.

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Mainstream vs non-mainstream site categories

Helps publishers choose the correct classification to avoid rejection of their sites or links.

03:32
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Minimum payout thresholds vary by payment method

Critical for planning withdrawals and understanding which methods are accessible early on.

05:07
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Direct linking allows earning without a website

Opens monetization to absolute beginners who lack their own domain or hosting.

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Beginners can earn $100–$200 using Google Sites and Blogger

Provides realistic earning expectations that make the strategy tangible.

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[00:02] tutorial review I'm going to walk you through step by step how to make money with this platform and also I'm going to review this platform if it's a kind of sounds like what you want to see go ahead and smash thumbs up button and

[00:15] want to sign up for this site you can click on the second link down in the description or you can head over to htop ads.com okay and this is how the interface is going to look like so if you don't know what htop has is is

[00:29] basically a site that you can use to monetize your traffic okay if you're start making money with your traffic htop ads is the best platform for you want to use this site it's a really powerful site you can make a lot of

[00:43] lot of trouble with AdSense you can literally use this to make money and I'm going to show you exactly how to use this to make money okay so basically this is the interface okay you can sign up as an Advertiser and a publisher so

[00:56] that these guys actually support supports a lot of payments method okay which means you're going to be able to withdraw your money super fast okay so right here in front of you so you see how everything is done okay so I'm going

[01:09] Publishers okay once you click on Publishers it's going to redirect you for free and it's going to redirect you straight to the form okay so you can to sign up as an Advertiser but I'm going to leave this on publisher and I'm

[01:22] going to input my name in here okay let's go ahead and input one of my random emails and after that I want to go ahead and input a random password in here okay after that you want to go ahead and check this if you agree to the

[01:35] terms of service of course okay and right here they say the use of multiple accounts for a single user is prohibited okay which means if you come over to this site and create multiple accounts you can actually get yourself banned

[01:48] click on sign up and I'm going to give a couple of seconds for re to load okay and right here it redirected me straight to my account so basically once you sign up this is how your dashboard is going to look like okay so if you want you can

[02:02] head over to your email and verify your account and once you verify your account you're going to actually get rid of this attention sign in here okay so I'm just going to open up my email and I'm going to click on the htop ads email and once

[02:15] on confirm email just like that is going to actually redirect me to a page where it's going to confirm my email okay so basically now I've confirmed my email as you can see it no longer has the

[02:27] going to close this tab right here okay so basically this is how your interface going to be all zero cuz you just created a new account okay so I'm just going to walk you through everything so you can use this htop ad platform with e

[02:42] okay and by the way if you want me to show you guys step by step how to make money with htop ads you can actually comment below and I'm going to make a video for you so over here is the statistics okay you can click on the

[02:54] statistics and once you click on that it's going to actually show you the this and once you fter all this just click on get statistics and just like that it's going to provide you with accurate statistics okay after that you

[03:07] can have your site management you can click on that and once you click on that okay so you can very easily add your site okay let's say you want to add your site on Hop ads.com all you have to do is to click on manage site click on ADD

[03:20] site and once you click on that they can very easily input your site let's say my site is youtube.com Okay once I input my site it's going to ask me whether or not my category is mainstream or non-mainstream

[03:32] okay what this actually means is that if your site actually supports things that are viewable for all the audience you're going to have to choose the mainstream okay and if your site has content that are age restricted you might want to go

[03:46] going to put this on mainstream and I actual site okay this is not my actual site I use my actual site to promote a not actually selling them here on YouTube but once once you add your

[04:00] domain you can scroll down and you can actually verify your domain by uploading this file straight to your domain okay it's very simple to do if you have any problems with doing anything on this site you can very easily click on

[04:13] contact manager once you click on contact manager on the top someone is way okay so you don't have to worry about getting stuck or anything like that okay after that we have the payment history so basically it's literally

[04:26] self-explanatory it's literally your payment history what that we do it's about your payment it's going to show you your referral program earnings balance and it's also going to show you your traffic that way you can actually

[04:38] close attention cuz I'm going to show you why this site is very powerful and why you want to actually use this site to monitize your traffic okay this is need that and you can click over here and it's going to actually redirect you

[04:51] straight to your account right here you can very easily edit and update your FAQs now if you don't understand easily go through their faq's and you're going to actually see a bunch of

[05:04] articles that can help you to do that okay now you all might been wondering well how do you actually withdraw money from Hilltop as okay it's very simple about how to withdraw your money and the minimum pay out you can click on what is

[05:17] on that you see that these guys actually pay you out once you make up to 20 bucks from all this payment method right here including payer and web money okay and if you actually want to withdraw your IIA Bitcoin and usdt you're going to be

[05:32] actually needing 50 bucks okay you're going to need to make $50 okay and if you want wire transfer you're going to have to ear up to $11,000 okay and unlimited amount of money using this site it depends on the kind of traffic

[05:46] you want to send okay but keep in mind these guys don't accept bad traffic okay so that's it for the payment method okay as you can see this are the payment method they accept and these are the minimum payout okay so if you actually

[05:59] can very easily click on referral program and once you click on referral program it's going to redirect you to this page now you get to make five% of what the advertisers pay okay and right here you get to also make 5% of what the

[06:13] Publishers make okay so if you actually refer people to this site let's say your first some sort of affiliate marketer and the person comes over to this site and starts buying traffic from this site you're going to be making 5% let's say

[06:26] someone comes in here and buy traffic wors of $100 you should be expecting to make anything from five bucks okay for the publisher if the person comes over they make money you get 5% basically it's pretty self-explanatory okay so if

[06:40] I scroll over here you see that these guys actually have your referral link leave this link and the second link down in the description is actually a up to this site you can use my referral link and if you don't want to sign up

[06:53] via my referral link you can very easily head over to htop ads.com okay basically and once you click on that it's going to actually show you all your referrals okay it has no referrals cuz obviously I just created the account okay so

[07:07] basically that's pretty much it okay so let's say you don't have a professional website and you want to start making money from this site what you can do is very simple okay so you can come over to writer. me or you can use chat gbt or

[07:19] whatever okay come over here create a nice article it's very simple to use if I'm going to leave a link in the description that should be third link and once you watch that video is going to show you exactly how to create an

[07:32] engaging article using this writer. me or you can use chat GPT everyone knows how to use chat GPT okay so once you create your article you can come over to Google sites literally publish an article or you can use blogger okay and

[07:45] want to do is to come over to htop ads and once you are here you can very easily direct link and start making now if you want to direct link it's very simple so you can come over to sites and

[07:58] be redirected to this page and once you're on this page click on direct link once you on here you're going to have to input your name let's say test direct link okay after that I want to make sure my category is on mainstream okay if you

[08:14] have some other traffic that actually have age restrictions you can focus on the non-mainstream category but I'm just going to go with the mainstream category link once I click on ADD direct link what's going to happen is it's going to

[08:28] actually create a direct link for me okay so now I have a link right here literally click on on the test direct link once I click on that it's going to redirect me straight to the direct link okay I can click on direct link right

[08:41] here and right here I can very easily copy this link okay I can copy this link and once people click on this link I actually get to make money okay so I'm going to open up this link just for preview and once I open up this link

[08:54] what's going to happen is it's going to actually show me an ad okay so if you want I can make a step-by-step video for you guys so you can start using htop ads and start generating M remember if you have $ 20 to $50 you're going to be able

[09:06] to withdraw your money instantly using usdt or PayPal okay and I know a lot of PayPal which means it's going to be very easy for you to withdraw your money okay with this if you're a beginner and you don't have a lot of traffic okay but you

[09:20] can make anywhere from $100 to $200 using Google sites and blogger okay so basically that's it for the direct link you can literally click on here and copy this your link put it on a clickable section of your article and once people

[09:34] click on this link you're going to actually start getting clicks and if you actually start racking up a bunch of money right here on your Publishers balance and you can very easily withdraw your money okay keep in mind if you run

[09:48] into any problem you can literally contact your manager okay so basically showed you guys step by step how to use this site right here called htop ads to make a bunch of money this site is going to actually help you if you are

[10:03] struggling with monetizing your traffic all you have to do is to send clicks and clicks that's why they have the advertisers Tab and the publisher tabs okay A lot of people are willing to pay for the clicks you're getting okay so if

[10:16] you're going to start making money and you can withdraw your money via a lot of this video up here if you actually got value out of this video go ahead and

[10:28] smash the thumbs up but I'm all about making money online I can sub to the channel if you want to get notification for future videos okay so I have a bunch out they can help you to make a lot of money so with all that said I'm going to

[10:42] talk to every single one of you all in the next video peace

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