Topic: SatoshiReserve.com 15 Minute Faucet up to 1,000 Satoshi (Read 2392 times)

So the faucet has been up for 14 days now. And we've given away 189,030 satoshi so far. 2,000 unique page views, 4,800 views and 33 sites linking back to us so far.

The whining about adsense actually couldn't have turned out better because it forced me to look for alternative ad networks. a-ads is allowing us to break even on direct bitcoin payouts. While adhitz and our clickbank affiliations are driving profits with a little over $30 in sales this month so far. If you have any questions about setting up your own faucet, or own a faucet and would like some help turning a profit lets talk. I'd love to help some other people do this too.

Thanks for your story. Let me try your faucet and bring to you some referrals.
Although usually I don't work with faucets with minimal bet less then 50 satoshi.
And good luck:)

For the next 24 hours Satoshi Reserve has upped the top prize to 10,000 satoshi. Still a chance every 15 minutes on the faucet, along with 50% referral earnings.

Wait, the guy that lost a couple million dollars through a supposed hack is crying about your adwords accounts providing quality advertising?

Thank you, I just emailed my adwords account manager with these URLs. I wouldn't want Bitcoin campaigns I manage to be wasting money on these sites.

Advertisers use AdSense over second-tier advertising networks because we're interested in quality. You might've figured that out from AdSense's payouts, which we are are paying to advertise on quality sites with relevant content, not advertising farms such as faucets.

I've seen other adsense accounts banned for disclosing earnings, but get away with murder with other account violations.

at least u are honest and dont call it "free bitcoin"

Let's look at the largest faucets who have, and still use adsense, and why they also don't get shut down.

Moonbitcoin, freebitco.in, and bitcoinzebra.

They all are violating the same rules, but they don't get banned for two reasons. They have legitimate traffic, (no bot, purchased, or network traffic), and they don't click their own ads. I have been using adsense off and on for three years now. I understand the risks, and even if I do lose adsense, this faucet is an experiment to see how they work, what works and what doesn't. I'm trying to move away from content based affiliate marketing and learning something new and showing other's what I'm doing so they can learn too.

P.S. are you planning any other online wallets, and what the hell happened over at coinchat, there's a bunch of little assholes running it now.

PS: It's funny that you're going 'that's a serious ToS violation' in regards to disclosing adsense earnings, when you're currently violating 3+ policies. It's also totally fine to disclose aggregate earnings and include AdSense in it.

I'm going to guess you're new with Adsense, and don't know that before you hit the payout threshold, an AdSense reviewer will manually look at your site and suspend your account with all earnings wiped (program violation).


https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/1348688?hl=en#Sites_that_offer_compensation_programs

Yes, faucets get suspended for this. Do you really think you're so clever, and are the first faucet that has discovered AdSense?

You're also violating multiple other adsense policies, but I won't bother listing them.

I'm 12 days into it, and gaining a ton of traffic. I would disclose adsense earnings, but that's a serious ToS violation, but lets just say the adsense earnings makes it worth it.

Why the hell are you bothering?

I'm working on the weekend data right now, just wanted to put up what SatoshiReserve has paid out in referral earnings since October 2nd. 33, 496 Satoshi have been paid out to referral partners. Our net payout to date has been 92,342 Satoshi. I believe the reason the total payouts don't give is a couple factors, one our database doesn't track total payout, we're currently relying on the payout data of microwallet. And the only reliable way we have to track referral earnings is our query our database directly. My other thought is our largest referrers are also probably users of the faucet increasing their referral earnings.

*edit I was wrong, the database does not show in satoshi.

I started SatoshiReserve a little over a week ago after experimenting with a microwallet faucet I was running on my faucet rotator. I really liked the system, and had seen the potential to make a profit was there, but it would take further experimentation. So I took the revenue from an ad sale on the rotator and deposited that to my microwallet api account.

What I would recommend for anyone considering opening a faucet is find a decent host, you'll need a mysql database and ftp access to manage the site. Stay away from hostgator or godaddy. I have been using midphase for a couple years without problems. My site runs on shared hosting without any major speed issues. Though I have trimmed down some of the code of the faucet. If you can modify php and have even minimal experience with mysql this is doable.

As far as marketing, I have been telling everyone in bitcoin I know about the site, posted in this forum and a few others. Thankfully a few sites have picked it up, as well as several rotators. Traffic is picking up every day. Average page views per day have been about 300 a day, but for a site that's a week old it doesn't seem too bad to me. Bounce rates are pretty good.

I haven't been maintaining daily profit & loss accurately, just an overall spreadsheet the last week. So I'll start from a baseline today, and start tracking all of it.

The faucets starting balance was 0.10189309, currently it sits at 0.1014985. So over the last week, we've paid out 39,459 satoshi. Overall revenue we've taken in 0.00115973 through a-ads, adsense I can't disclose but let's say it's significant. I switched the site to solvemedia yesterday with about $0.08 in revenue. Might switch that back to reCaptcha after some feedback of a couple users. Overall profit for the week in bitcoin revenue only is 0.00076688. Is it making a profit? Yes only because the hosting is paid for by other projects. Will it maintain this level or grow, or will it go belly up? We'll see.

Ok, added to ifaucet.net rotator

Yes, please!

Would anyone be interested in me doing a follow along thread on how I market the site, and how a faucet makes money?

Added to our faucet list

https://www.diigo.com/item/image/4yb91/g2w6 Confirmed payout of 1000 satoshi

Announcing SatoshiReserve.com - Faucet has a 15 minute cooldown, with up to 1,000 satoshi.


Prizes:

• 1000 satoshi (1.47%)
• 500 satoshi (1.47%)
• 250 satoshi (1.47%)
• 100 satoshi (7.35%)
• 50 satoshi (36.76%)
• 10 satoshi (51.47%)

Current Faucet Balance: 10,178,296 satoshi