Hey mate, just a simple advice, in the past 6 months almost all major faucets have been banned by adsense. You have been promoting your faucet really hard, nothing scammy about referral payouts, most of the faucets do, have earned a considerable amount of referral earnings from both of your faucets. The rewards have been lowered, but still good and in my opinion you can maintain the current reward without adsense, but with marginal profit. You are using the faucet on the main page, adsense is catching up, either use adsense with subpage, but still risky. Why kill the goose that lays golden eggs?
Thanks for the advice. Yeah, I've been keeping up with the AdSense-banning-faucets news and it sucks. Honestly, I think it's just a matter of time for mine, but it seems like the recent faucets that have been banned hold <100k Alexa rankings and are far more popular. I'd consider putting the actual faucet on a subpage, but it would really take a lot of work to move stuff around and I'm not sure if I have the time for that right now.
On a similar note, I relocated the AdSense ads to the actual faucet area itself to hopefully generate some more (organic) interest
But honestly, I just don't know. I got my first real month's report in yesterday and it wasn't entirely good. There was a significant amount of invalid traffic. I've incorporated a number of anti-bot / vpn / proxy scripts, have added malicious IPs and BTC addresses to a blacklist, etc etc. Google literally provides zero detailed feedback on where the invalid traffic is from, so as an admin, it's very difficult to determine what's causing it.
People who support the faucets and visit ads regularly (because they're interested in them) are AWESOME, but I guess that aspect can be abused by continuously doing it over and over from the same IP. I'm not sure what the cutoff is to Google; maybe one unique IP visit/click per day? It seems like it's all speculation right now since Google provides really ambiguous guidelines.
The minimum reward seems to be working out well right now. I was up to paying $40 per day out of my pocket because it reached over 0.07 BTC in reward payouts. I'm not a rich person at all, lol, and I made these sites because I really support cryptocurrency and wanted to start on a project that would benefit not only myself, but others as well. I have to stay realistic about stuff, especially when it comes to finances. I know it will piss off a lot of users, but then again there's that chance at getting a much higher reward payout. Like I said previously, the 250, 500 and even 1000 sat rewards are paid regularly according to my stats; you just have to keep trying for them (and cross your fingers). The 50k, 75k & 100k rewards also get picked up by very lucky users.
At the time when reward payouts peaked, revenue just wasn't keeping up. Plus, most of it was from AdSense and I'm pretty much at their mercy on whether they will pay out or not. It's hard to find a comparable ad network that pays similar rates; I know there are faucets that exist without them, but they seem to incorporate other stuff as well, like dice gambling, etc. Honestly, I'm not the
most technical person in the world, so I wouldn't even know where to start with doing that. Also, it seems like the house would need a decent cash pot to survive any big winnings, and I don't really have that at the moment.
Well, I apologize for the rant, but I appreciate all and any advice. So far it's been really fun engaging the community and developing the sites. The roadmap I provided before is still on the table, but may need to be adjusted a bit. I may also have some other plans, but am not sure yet. I'll be updating this thread as usual
Thank you all for the support. I really appreciate it!
