Incentive Affiliate Marketing

Most you should be familiar with the various freebie and getpaidto forums out there. They are by far the most powerful traffic source for your Incentive sites. It is a very highly targeted form of visitors that have their mind set on completing offers. Anything4free.com. Freeipodguide.com. Freelunchroom.com, and many more are what make the incentive market profitable. There are thousands and thousands of members in these forums.

Especially with the incredible rise in incentive sites and fraudulent incentive sites these forums have been increasingly selective on who is allowed to promote their site. I know that anything4free.com (A4F) now screens every single site before they are allowed promote their site. It is not as easy as it once was. But there is still a way to profit from forum traffic.

First, you need to start the approval process for your site at these forums. Find other forums that many people haven’t heard of and start promoting your site there. Make sure to be a frequent and helpful contributor to these forums. Maybe share some interesting posts about non-freebie or non-gpt related topics. If people see you as a valuable member of the forum they will be more likely to visit your site. After you have been approved make a post or two explaining the unique features of your site. Offer some type of promotion to your users, the more creative the better.

This is a very important step or all your efforts will be wasted: Make your site unique and interesting. Even if people sign up at your site they will not want to finish it if is just like any other site. This is much easier said than done. If you make your product (your site) quality, the traffic from these forums will be viral. People will pay for your greens or solicit referrals for your site. But if its crap, it will be one-time traffic and it will die down soon.

Many sites including zeropricetags and macrobucks started exclusively from forum traffic and now make serious bucks. If done properly forums can be your single biggest form of traffic.

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For all you guys that have had questions that you wanted to ask me or anything else, I have added a contact me page with my email information so you can send over some emails if you have any questions.

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I have been talking alot about capturing a niche and how that is the way to go when you create a new freebie site. You cannot simply create a general freebie site and hope to succeed, its simply like any other business: you cannot just create a general store from scratch, you are more likely to succeed if you focus on a small segment of the market. At the very least you should do this in the beginning.

Personally, I own lots of incentive sites and not one of them is a general site, they all are focused on a relatively small niche with little competition.

What exactly is a niche?

A niche is small segment of the market.  Examples of (Freebie-related) Niches: Free PS3 Games, Free Nike Sneakers, Free Rapidshare accounts. Their are hundreds of different niches that are freebie related.

Why should create a niche freebie site?

Simple. There is alot less competition. There are not very many sites that offer free rapidshare accounts so when you create your Free premium rapidshare account you can easily dominate the market. There is obviously less traffic with this site then offering free wiis but you are not competing with trainn.org or other big boys. This makes it much easier for you. You can literally create as many websites you want in all different types of niches.

I won’t give away any more powerful niches that have earned me money, its up to you! Think about things that you hate paying for but are necessary to you.

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There are many new GPT and Freebie sites popping up daily and most of them are just utter crap. They are not well designed, all run the same script, all offer the same offers, and give the users no incentive to sign up.

Why would anyone want to sign up for the most of these sites? For most there is absolutely no reason why anyone would want to sign up for most of these sites. They have no innovation.

So is the market saturated?

Yes.

Is it too saturated to make a profit?

No.

Gone are the days where you can simply create a site and go to forums and write a post about your site and watch the dough roll in. You have to think outside the box and capture a niche.

Create your own script, create your own unique design, and add value to your site. If you do that you will get your users promoting the site for you!

If you don’t have any originality you will only make chump change, if that. Ask yourself, why would anyone join your site over CashCrate or a Trainn site?

There is still plenty of profit to be made with these sites if you use it properly.

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This is a quick little tip for you to save some time and keep your users happy. Everybody uses paypal and there is a very high chance that you are using paypal to pay your users. Masspay allows you to pay your user’s  with no paypal fees, if you do not do this already, there is absolutely no reason why you should not use Masspay to pay your users. You are charged a maximum of $1 for each payment you send and your users are not charged anything. This saves your users the 4% that paypal charges and it can actually save you time.

Let’s say that you need to send payments to 100 different users, it can be quite tedious to do, but Masspay makes it easy, just save your info into a .csv file and upload it to the paypal site and it will automatically transfer the money. To create the file, just open excel and put the email in one column and the amount in another column then go to save as and select save as .csv. It’s that simple and it can make your life a lot easier.

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Almost every GPT Incentive site uses Shiftcode, and many including cashduck, dealbarbiepays, and cash ninjas has become wildly popular and successful. Many people want to know if you should sign up for Shiftcode or should I create my own script.

The Pricing of Shiftcode includes a one time set up fee of 119.95 and a monthly fee of 19.95. There are additional add-ons (many of them necessary for a good site: like the automatic creditor, etc.). Many people are not fond of the monthly fee but if you are making anything per month it shouldn’t be a problem to pay for it.

The features of Shiftcode are pretty comprehensive, they have most features that you want of a GPT site. The referral system, the proxy detection, and the telephone verification are all pretty good features that most other scripts do not have.

The main problem with Shiftcode is that all the sites look the same, and have the same layout. Users do not want to sign up to a site that is not unique and looks pretty much like every other GPT site around. The best thing that you can do is get a custom designer to try to make your site as unique as possible.

Another problem with Shiftcode is that many upper-tier affiliate networks, the ones that give you higher payouts and better offers, like MaxBounty, NeverblueAds, and metareward. This is because they believe the users of Shiftcode to be less knowledgeable about fraud, and reducing fraud. But, you can still get into many other affiliate networks.

In Conclusion, I suggest that you buy Shiftcode if you are looking for an easy to implement way to get a GPT Incentive site up quickly. Do not buy Shiftcode, if you are looking for a top quality solution to get a unique GPT site up and running, get a custom script designed from getafreelancer.com .

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Once you get have traffic and are getting a good amount of users, you want your users to complete the highest amount of offers possible. Doing a few small tweaks in your site can help you get your users to complete a lot more offers, and will do wonders for your bottom line.

Here are the main reasons that people sign up at Incentive websites:

1. They do not know what to do
2. They do not know which offers to do
3. They think that it is impossible to get their prize
4. They do not find any offers that appeal them
5. They think the site is a scam

The good part is that this can be pretty easy to solve, by just making a few changes in your wording and the layout of your site:

• Make a tutorial section and spell out step by step what the user needs to do, make sure that it is easy for the user to find out where the tutorial section is.
• Make a featured offer section, with the best offers: the top brands with trial offers, or free survey offers. Do not just put the highest paying offers.
• Make the prize attainable, by putting testimonials (ask your past users for testimonials, and pay them a few bucks) or by putting a picture of their selected prize close by. If they see their end goal they are more likely to continue on with the process.
• Make sure that you have lots of offers, if you need more incentive affiliates sign up for one of the networks listed on this site. Try to do this without cluttering your site do not just add every single offer possible. Choose offers that are free or feature name brands.
• Add Proof to your site, if they believe that your site is definitely not a scam they are much more likely to complete offers.

These things are pretty simple to implement and should help you improve your bottom line and get a lot more offer completions. The key is just to make it simple for your user, and make sure that they believe they can get their prize.

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As a Incentive site owner you are going to need to deal with fraud or you are not gonna survive very long in this industry. Fraud takes many forms, and they are tough to deal with. Fraud can consist of any of the following:

1. Signing up with incorrect information
2. Using a proxy to sign up
3. Using a prepaid credit card or stolen credit card to complete offers
4. Signing up and canceling immediately
5. Doing the same offer multiple times

All of the above are considered fraud by most affiliate networks, and if it happens too much you are likely to get kicked out of the affiliate network without getting paid a dime. So, it is in your best interest to minimize fraud. In the long run if you keep your advertisers happy, you will be happy. That should be your motto.

So, How do I go about reducing fraud? Well there are number of things that you can do:

• Do not ever pay with E-Gold (its a haven for fraudsters), even better do not do cash incentive marketing unless you are really on top of Fraud management.
• Institute Phone Verification, you can use Maxmind for this, they charge less than .05 a phone call and this takes away lots of the fraudsters.
• Email verification make sure that the user validates their email before they can complete offers.
• Payout less frequently, (I know that it might hurt your signups but Most fraudsters go to the instant payout sites, so they have less of a chance to get caught.
• Screen your IPs, only allow users of certain countries to join, again Maxmind can do this pretty well.
• Screen for proxies
• Put a mechanism that doesn’t allow a user to complete an offer twice.
• Be diligent, if someone signs up for every single offer than you know that he is probably defrauding.

Here are some more things you can do that will go a long way to stopping fraud, but might not help your bottom line:

• Do not tell the user what he has to do to get credit for the offer, this is important on lead forms.
• Do not tell how much the offer costs, this will discourage people from automatically signing up for the cheapest offers.
• Only payout via check.

Fraud hurts everybody. If you do not keep your eye on fraud you could end up not getting paid at all. If you follow some of these steps you should be well on your way to minimizing fraud.

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PepperJamAds is a brand new affiliate network that is kinda of a mix between CJ (commission junction) and a traditional CPA network. Getting into PepperJamAds is easy, no phone verification or anything complicated and they let all types of incentive programs in, even cash.

They have a pretty good amount of programs to choose from but you have to apply individually like CJ, some are automatic others manually review your site. There are many different merchants most of them are exclusive (won’t find them on other networks) this is a major plus for them.

• There are no postbacks
• Payment is Net 15
• Check, Direct Deposit, and Paypal

There are relatively few offers on this site, but they are top-quality with the highest payouts around. The following offers make it worth it to join PepperJamAds , they are sure to do well on almost every incentive site:

• Video Professor
• Flycell
• 101inks
• GoFreeCredit
• Playphone
• text-link-ads

So if you haven’t you should go ahead and sign up with PepperJamAds

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