Yes indeed, ads needed to support the developers. However my list is not just for a small group, i actually had 120.000 visitors so my site is very popular.
However I turned off the ad campaign since I worked the past 5 days on my list, and looked into over 200 faucets.
I`ll turn back the ad campaign, thus i`ll help thousands of faucet users and bitcoin enthusiasts with my list.
Of course in return i`ll get paid from the ads but my main goal here is to provide a
high quality service and to help bitcoin users gain alot of bitcoin by doing the
research and testing the faucets instead of them
Thanks anyway, what faucet do you own? I run bitcoin-bucket faucet. >>
http://moneyinpjs.com/bitcoin-bucket/ Mr Guesswho? who posted on page 1 is the domain owner. I dont think the bucket will make your list due to the ads. Its ok, I dont want it on every list or I'll go broke
. I would prefer google ads but I am unable to create a separate account just for the faucet link when the domain is already registered and placed in the captcha box. The current ads I have placed fund about 60% of the faucet costs which leaks about 0.08btc per day
. If faucet users clicked ads then there would be more revenue and less ads would be required on a site.
off topic- about ads..but im feeling chatty..
I ran a promo and placed a massive ad for it right above the satoshi balance. The promo was if they got either of the highest two payouts they could claim 1 of 10 x 1million satoshi prizes. (0.01btc)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-bucket-faucet-promotion-closed-1004982 I later calculated that 60 people could have claimed the promo prize but didnt see the banner ad. I watching the claims on faucetbox, then followed the wallets that could have won. They were screaming at 1000 miles per hour from faucet to faucet to faucet. Also, more surprising was that i offered an 11th prize giving away 1/2 of the revenue earned by clicks, which sadly from several ads only a total of 7 clicks were made for the duration of the promo > thousands of visits.
What did I learn? That 99% of faucet users totally zone out on the ads, wallet/captcha/enter/wallet/captcha/enter etc etc This is all good, same thing i used to do, but when i see a thread where many are requesting less ads, well in reality its bs. 99% of faucet users load page/wallet/captcha/enter/ leave (repeat) they dont give a crap about special games, pretty pictures but only care about how many satoshi is offered - and if too many ads affect the load page or popups are a turn off aslo.
cheers