How To Earn $4,000+ Per Month With TikTok and Monetag SmartLinks [Case Study]
Working in a factory, then investing only $0,99 and growing your site to earn $4,000 per month – sounds more like a cheesy story for teenagers, right? But what can we do if it’s the real case our publisher shared with us?
Today, we’ll show you how a Filipino worker has earned more than $70,000 with TikTok videos and Monetag ad formats. This is the first time we have published a TikTok success story, so don’t miss it out, and welcome to the strategy insights!
Part 1: How It All Began
Our publisher is a 28 year old Filipino citizen, who used to work in a factory. One day, he got curious: is it possible to earn money with a simple webpage? He watched several YouTube tutorials and learned how to create and monetize a site.
After a short while, he became a real publisher with real income – his landing page, with about 10 million views, earned over $3,000 through Google Adsense. However, it didn’t last long, he began looking for a new monetization platform and came across Monetag.
Part 2: How to Build a Strategy and Attract Traffic
We mentioned our publisher sent traffic to a webpage with Google Adsense – and, actually, he continued doing so when switching to Monetag. What and how exactly did he do? Here is a step-by-step strategy:
- With the help of the Blogger.com platform, our publisher created a plain landing page dedicated to popular PC games.
- He purchased a domain for $0.99 and connected it to this Blogger site as a custom domain.
- On this landing page, he posts info about the games: the latest updates, reviews, opinions, and screenshots.
Interestingly, he hasn’t changed the landing page design since 2020 – and its very initial version still works out! It looks very simple, more than minimalistic – and, as the publisher said,
‘The landing page I use from 2020 to now 2025 remains the same: I keep using it because it’s successful. Maybe, if I would change anything, it would be just colors and button design.’
- To attract traffic to the page, our publisher created several TikTok accounts. He posts some video gameplays – also simple enough, and leaves a CTA under each video, inspiring viewers to check his TikTok bio. These videos gain from about 100k to 2 million views, and the trick here is consistency: he posts at least one daily. All of them last no more than 10 seconds, and the publisher adds trending sounds to them, which also helps this content appear in recommendations every time he posts something new.
‘I carefully choose my content so I am sure I will always have a large audience. That’s why I don’t need to spend money to get views for my videos. If you want to do the same, be creative and diligent in creating content until it is recognized by audiences and becomes a trend.’
- All the accounts’ bios contain a link to the landing page.
So, the flow is like this: users watch a video –– see a CTA to check out a bio (you can leave it as the first comment to the video or in the video description) –– follow the link –– voila, they have landed on the page.
Once a user is at the landing page, the real monetization game begins. How exactly?
Part 3: How to Monetize Traffic Redirected From TikTok
The landing page contains standard buttons like ‘Read More’. Some of these buttons hide Monetag’s SmartLink (Direct Link). Monetization happens the following way:
- A user clicks a button
- A new page with an ad offer opens under a separate tab
- The second click on a button opens the content the user initially wanted to see
Part 4: How Much Money Does It Bring?
In short – about $4,000 or even more per month. Here is, for example, the publishers’ stats for December 2024:
Overall, the monetization results depend on various factors, including GEOs. In this case, the biggest audience comes from the Philippines, while the highest CPM is currently found at Thailand traffic:
Of course, it took some time before traffic volumes became high enough to bring such an income. Overall, our publisher has made almost $70k with Monetag so far, and we think the results will double soon, as his earnings have really grown lately:
Final Words From Our Publisher
We asked our publisher to share a couple of words about Monetag and how he feels about monetizing with us. Here is what he said:
What I like most about Monetag is the weekly payout and the Direct Link ads that I put on my website buttons. Direct link ads have high CPM rates.
As you can witness, our publisher is right – SmartLinks and social traffic make a perfect match. So, try, test, and earn – you are welcome to
