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I am considering opening a BTC faucet. However I would like to know more about it. I know that it is still profitable, but you will need to wait for a little bit to get ROI. At least until some time ago tha was the case. Now, at this point I'm not certain if it is a good deal.

Opinions anyone?

I am also interested in this, hopefuly someone experienced will answer.

I was thinking about making some online game in which you can win some satoshis each day (for rank or whatever)

I don't think it is still profitable i have also tried to run one using faucetbox script but after paying almost 0.10BTC total in a month i only get around 0.02BTC. This may not remain same if you can get lots of traffic with google adsense on your site. (i haven't used google adsense)

So, my guess is that it is still profitable if you use google addsense. In fact, with adsense I was thinking that if you get a lot of trafick and by adding some referrals allong the way you could get a pretty decent return. But I would like to know how much time would it take to get to ROI

I think not. Why? Because many people run AdBlock. When i used some faucets, i clicked on the ads, knowing i will give them some profit, but the majority just run your faucet on a rotator anyways.

It could be if you have original idea and invest lot of time and resources in it before you actually get something from it. There is shitload of faucets atm and competition is huge.

A faucet can be profitable if it has a good number of daily traffic and if it has ads that give a good revenue.
But to get those traffic you have to attract visitors with high rewards at first, so if you have a spare money to spend, have an AdSense account and you are not afraid of losing them, run a faucet and try

Asking if it is still profitable has some other hidden questions.
It all depends how the manager can mange his duties and how often is available.
A good factor here is the advertisement which brings the users to your faucets, but i still think that it is profitable.

With some proper presentation (design) not a cheap template like 99% of them. And some good marketing yeah I think there is still money to made in the
'faucet business'

It could be still a good one or rather profitable in the long run only if you do your best. Not sure if you notice but if only you check at the faucet that are created by the faucetbox script on the daily basis and yet when you check them after a week, their gone so easily and fast mainly due to the reason that their faucet was like others, nothing special that made people go back and nothing extraordinary done by the owner to give reason for people to bring profit. If you really want to go with this field then you should really prepare to invest a lot at first and expect loses in the beginning but in the long run sure it would be a profitable one as long as it stands in the crowed of other faucets.

I run a faucet and use adsense and bitmedia and i find that im losing money weekly keeping the faucet filled as noone ever clicks ads really. These rotators are killing owners and it doesnt seem to be subsiding.

It is possible to be profitable, but considering that there are thousands of faucets out there, and many of them are ultimately gone, it would be difficult to be profitable.

To profit, you would need good advertising networks, most favorable google adsense, as they pay the most, but you should not rely 100% of them. Next would be advertising the faucet itself, getting people to know it. Traffic is one of the main problems of faucets, so if you can get good traffic, go ahead. :)

You can start off and try, and here's a tip, make your faucet unique, implement some special stuff, like events and bonuses if you want users to return!

It's not a question of profitable or not. can you monetize your faucet (blog, website w/e) to make an income? < is the right question in my mind :)

the famous question.
i think that with highest price faucet is do not profitable. i am provide one faucet with great daily traffic, and adsense earnings, but after all now the bitcoin i invested in faucet, now have equal value with adsense earnings on this time.
The good thing is now i have domain with ~100000 Alexa rank, and I collected a lot of referral. One faucet I gathered enough ref. earnings for own "life".
BOTs are serious problem for faucet. First, make fake traffic and it negatively affects for google adsense RPM, plus drying up balance

There are lots of faucets nowadays. Actually you can profit from a faucet but you need to do some different things to attract users.

So just like with any other "online money making" method - you gotta add your own twist

Yes if you get free hosting and free domain name(such as .tk, .cf etc.)

Then you have nothing to lose.

Who ever coming to faucets to make some coins are only interested in solving capacha and move on to next faucet to earn money coins so they are not worried about the site owner profit and lose. So if any one want to make some profit from these faucets than you should come up with some additional activities on your sites which attracts visitors to keep on your site for long time than one can make surely some good profits otherwise mostly no. So try to keep the visitors on you're site more time for more profits. :)

If you dont have anything to offer for your clickers other giving dust amounts then consider your faucet to lose money.

Iam also interested in doing facuet sites. i heard that there are free faucet tempakltes out there and you just have to install the api from the faucetbox to use the faucet.
Then you have to load on some satoshi to get it going and opromote it..
Hm,m profits i dont know but would it be nice to have a gool Game within so that people also can try to reinvest there claimed amount to gain higher profits :))

Would be great to hear about your pimnions ;)

regards
DavieT1337

Well this is what I would like to see, some nice game where u can earn bitcoins, some ranks and many more things that one game needs to have. When u make something like that, or even start to make pleas inform me I would like to play it and be involved in something like that.

I believe that faucets are here to stay, people will use it for sure. I dont have experience in making faucet, but for sure I have experience in claiming rewards from many of them. I can say that with nice site, and by that I mean good reward, not so offensive commercials, nice interface, other games, some important news... i believe people will come to see, u need to have something that will make people wish to stay and come back over and over again.

I wish u luck with this project, when u make it inform us here and I will gladly come and check your site. Regards.

it will be profitable ,if not there wont be any faucet .give away will be limited

Why are people still running them then? :)

for the same reason why there are someone that is still solving captcha with faucet, or simply because they think that someone will fall for some malicious banner

they could be affiliated with those banner

If we exclude the scamming faucet's then there are a lot amount newbies who are not known to bitcoin making/building strategies and are happy to collect them from faucets. Bitcoin's popularity in increasing day by day the good/reputed faucets never lose their views as they get replaced by the new one's.
It might be profitable if done and maintained properly.

you wont be going rich with a faucetbox faucet unless you invest btc in advertising or sell ebooks such bitcoinaliens.

Yes OP it can still be profitable, if you join high-paying ad networks such as adsense to your site and get listed in alot of good rotators such as ifaucet to generate alot of traffic, it also helps if a healthy amount of your visitors are from teir 1 countries such as USA, Canada and the UK

tarsua you may have a little more informations about ? where to register ? Where you can get a cool faucet theme? and some stuff like that :)
That would be really great to hear about :) Thank you so far

regards
DavieT1337

It can be profitable . but the compitation with older faucets will be so hard.
You will have to offer high rewards to attract visitors and and a good refferal percent to encourage people to promote for your faucet

I've been running a faucet for sometime. Yes it can be profitable but you have to be very careful managing how much you give out and your expenses.  To put it short My faucet expenses per month usually run about $1,500 that's buying coins hosting ect. Most of the time the ad revenue covers this expense and leaves a little extra. Sometimes it does not I had 4 months this year where it was in the red. I've never paid for advertising or even created a banner getting traffic to a faucet to me was not difficult but it could be for new sites.  If you are going to run one do it right have a top level domain don't break your publisher terms of service because that's the easiest way of dropping any revenue from your faucet. Rewards have to be high enough to keep users interested but low enough to cover those few who spam the faucet all day every day.  I personally wrote a script that checks the bitcoin & altcoin prices to adjust with my set daily budget. Prior to that I was manually adjusting which required me to check in on the site 6 hours or so. I wouldn't suggest running only 1 coin as you will only get X amount of hits and most of them will be repeat traffic (not worth as much for must publishing networks). Stay away from popups they can be enticing because they usually offer a pretty high cpm but you end up losing your viewers.  Finally you have to be prepared for low CPM countries such as Russia, Ukraine, and Brazil being the main source of traffic.  Try to make the site easy enough for these countries either by directly translating or keeping the layout simple so they can easily navigate.

If you use a basic script like 99% of the sites then no. Too many faucets has been dried up without even paying a single satoshi.
A unique design and custom made script with some neat features would give users more trust and thus attract advertisers.

I don't think it is profitable any more. There are just too many faucets and a lot of them (not all) are scammy ones.
To make some money with bitcoin a gambling/game site are the way to go.

Faucets are still profitable. Owners need to "work" on marketing and change the faucet payout daily to match the revenue. However, I believe there is a limited market for faucets and only a certain number of bitcoin faucets can survive long term.

If you are a good manager then the success will come, the key is the advertisement and the faucet system/script itself to make it easier for the users to claim the reward.

Yes, only new people who come to bitcoin world than they may start with faucets until they know how to make more bitcoins with same time they spend on faucets. Only few faucets will survive for long term because most of the new sites will expect profits immediately instead of attracting people to their site with new features to spend more time on there site. If people spend more time than more more money for faucet owners.

I've had a faucet but i decided to kill it. It cost quite a lot and earning back with advertisements is very difficult.
Also the hosting bills kept stacking up, so I decided to pull to plug

It doesn't surprise me at all. Faucets used to be "the thing" when bitcoin was in a bubble, and there were tons of people that were eager to try it out how
bitcoin is functioning w/o having to buy some. Now, that things have cooled down, and bitcoin is better explained on many places, the audience for
faucets is mostly made of faucet abusers, which obviously kills their point.

You're going to need a lot of traffic to make some good money out of it. I've seen people do this and some have failed because of lack of traffic.
They have been spending more money on it then earning. It takes time and effort though to do this right.

It could be if you have original idea and invest lot of time and resources in it before you actually get something from it. There is shitload of faucets atm and competition is huge.
You will need time,start money and good design+good domain.
Do not set reward lower than 800 satoshi,you will probably have few visitors.

With some proper marketing and promotions you can even sell a shoes with holes in it.
Most faucets are just simple one's. No unique selling points. just set up with 1 goal (to earn). If they webmaster would think about a new model where the player can earn without getting overhrown with a lot of ads, see what will happen.

I think it will be profitable for a long time since there are still many users entering the world of Bitcoin. I know when I first started I thought faucets were great, then after some time you understand they are a waist of time. Either way for many people who have the time and patience it can be a valid way to gather some BTC, specially with services like Faucet Box. In some years if the value rises a lot it could be just like the old days and those satoshis could be worth many dollars.

Its profitable if you manage it properly. Making a traffic is difficult because you need to distribute this on any forums.
Or Via seo and also you need to pay to advertise your site to make lots of traffic..

In my opinion, just do it, what's the harm, from there you can find out and learn a lot about it, and you certainly will know what you should do, continue or stop, or do other alternatives.
Regarding profitable or not, I think it's back to the individual self, if you are smart and creative you can do it all.

Do you guys recommend using FaucetBox or some in-house system?

(For starters)

Well the cost of starting a faucet are very low. There are plenty of free scripts out there.

There is even no need for a bitcon deamon running. With that in mind you only have to focus on marketing and earning.

There are some CPM campains out there, but you will make more with some related b2b affiliate campaigns I think.

Else there is always Google Adsense :)

For some people faucets is profitable, like for people who is starting to know about bitcoin.
25 cents a day is a lot for some peole. Faucets is also good if you want to gambling with it instead of bitcoin.

Does it just need traffic that it will work even if its not targeted traffic? if so you can probably just use social media marketing, youtube video marketing or even use the cheaper pop-up adnetworks today which you can set for CPM.

How much is the maximum earnings of faucets by the way?

True, a lot of time and work comes around the corner by running a faucets and it's just not working anymore for bitcoin.
You get so little as a faucet user as well as being an faucet owner, you just don't earn enough to even hold the faucet online.

Faucets is fun when you are starting to know about bitcoin maybe in one day you can earn 10 cents or more and with that you will be happy.  After that you will feel sad that is waste of time. So yeah, but is still profitable for people who want to learn.

In some cases is not that profitable, doing it free is just pain in the ass. If I had a army I would just tell them to do faucets every day.
Like maybe 20 person doing faucets with your referral you can earn a lot in one day. Buy I don't think is profitable if you are doing with your own. Just do some altcoins and trade it. Is more profitable in my opinion.

I think the answer for your question is yes,

many beginner is looking for faucet in fact all beginner usually start from faucet,

it is just depend on you how to gain their attention and gain their trust and how you maintain your faucet payments

And a lot of faucet still running until now because they make quite big profit from advertisement