[EDU] Faucet risks

[shorena]

How can I know which admin pinned this thread?

BadBear did. They asked for a thread like this when this section was created. I wrote it, they checked it and made it stick to the top.

[BitBustah]

Wow guys, so much negativity on faucets.


I too think there are a lot of scammers. I just want you to give me 2 cents (as a faucet owner). Firstly, I'm not in it for the money. At this time I invested about 50 eur into my faucet (hosting for 6 months, domain name for a year, satoshi to hand out). Web development has always been a hobby of mine. It would be nice to earn some pocket change eventually. If the money runs out before I break even, I'll just close the site and I'll try something else.


It's not easy earning some money as a faucet owner. I'm not even close to breaking even. My AdSense application was rejected. I keep wondering how other faucet owners do it. They beg users to click the ads (which NO advertising business allows). Talking about scamming.. I guess those faucet owners are scamming Google.

Bee-ads brings in little money. Anonymous ads was bringing in NO money. My Mellowads application was rejected. No idea why, I see loads of crummy sites with Mellowads. I'll never deal with Mellowads again.

At this moment I'm trying popunders. It's a bit of an annoying form of advertising, but I guess I'm trying everything.

To those who are convinced that making, running and maintaining a profitable faucet is an easy thing to do: Well, what stops you from starting one?

I'm open to all questions or suggestions. Please try to keep it civilised. There's already too much pain and anger in the world.

[shorena]

Wow guys, so much negativity on faucets.
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Well the thread is mainly about the risks, not about the benefits. Maybe thats why it comes off negative. Its always good to hear from someone that actually ran a faucet.

[BitBustah]

Wow guys, so much negativity on faucets.
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 Maybe thats why it comes off negative.

I guess so. I forgot to thank the TS for his help and warnings. Thanks TS.

[defaultking]

Thank you for posting this. I get so tired on forums when people ask questions looking for answers (like why are faucets bad) and 99.99% of the posts are just like because they are ok. Which is no help what so ever. Very informative and well thought out with good examples. Thanks OP for taking the time to post this. You answered a lot of my questions.

[knowhow]

Well those information is a good advice to who use faucets ,that must know they can be infected by malicious software.

[BitBustah]

Well those information is a good advice to who use faucets ,that must know they can be infected by malicious software.

Shouldn't we all take proper precautions (anti-virus, firewall, ...) these days? It's a common sense that people should protect themselves (for whatever kind of websites they visit).

[knowhow]

Yes but some antivirus just dont are able to find all the virus that may affect your computer soo the malicious ads may affect your computer and you cant do nothing against it.

[hoop]

Faucets are trendy and I own one of the best   ( I dont write this post to advertise my faucet )

It is not so easy to manage a faucet (I mean a decent one with serious intentions)

There are many things you must set :  website design/script , dedicated server, custom modifications, security, etc.

Also the balance between revenue and payments could be a problem (must test and test to find the right value)

Agree with all you mentioned above. till now I couldn't found  right value for balance between revenue and payments.

 

[FaucetRank.com]

Wow guys, so much negativity on faucets.
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Well the thread is mainly about the risks, not about the benefits. Maybe thats why it comes off negative. Its always good to hear from someone that actually ran a faucet.

The benefit is only one that user get free fraction of bit coin.
A quick way to get free bit coins without dealing with bit coin exchanges and buying from own pocket .

[InfinityDaniel]

Thanks for the informative post! But not all faucets are bad. 

[shorena]

Thanks for the informative post! But not all faucets are bad. 

No, certainly not. Just take care, some are.

[Jet Cash]

Thanks for this thread. I started to look at faucets to see if they were useful ways to drivre traffic to other sites. I think that the returns are so small, that driving faucet visitors to other sites will just be burning server bandwidth.

[capcher]

Not exactly a risk to the faucet user per se, but as you can see from this thread, Google/Adsense doesn't exactly like faucet sites so there's always a risk of faucets getting banned by them. Without Adsense, the faucets pay out less and sometimes can even dry up altogether. The ecosystem can be pretty fragile.

[FaucetRank.com]

Not exactly a risk to the faucet user per se, but as you can see from this thread, Google/Adsense doesn't exactly like faucet sites so there's always a risk of faucets getting banned by them. Without Adsense, the faucets pay out less and sometimes can even dry up altogether. The ecosystem can be pretty fragile.

You're right it's a risk but most faucet owner do not follow rules that's why they get ban.

[bitbollo]

there are some faucet that pay good but withdraw is too high... and before you get money they close the site!

[Master_dandosha]

The only faucet i tried many times is freebitco.in but the pay you a little for high-end hard work for a whole week while they gain more money from ads so i decided to forget all about faucets and to find another profitable good job in exchange to BTC.

[FaucetRank.com]

The only faucet i tried many times is freebitco.in but the pay you a little for high-end hard work for a whole week while they gain more money from ads so i decided to forget all about faucets and to find another profitable good job in exchange to BTC.

Faucet can't give you big money . faucet only give you taste of bit coin to get start with it.


you can try bit coin trading .

[LaStOpTi0N]

there are some faucet that pay good but withdraw is too high... and before you get money they close the site!

That's a cheap trick to get traffic and save money mostly that type of faucet owner use free domain like .TK

[SparkyU]

#3 Referal spam

Many faucets offer a bonus payment if you refer other users to it. Keep in mind that this board has a strict anti-spam policy. If you create a post for the sole purpose of posting a referral link it will get removed. If your member rank is high enough, you can use a ref link in your signature. If your post is only a reference to your signature its still considered ref spam though. Some cropped quotes from the admin that is going to ban you if you fail to understand this concept:

Do not make topics or replies just to share your referral link. Whether it's in your sig, avatar, personal message, profile, within the post itself, or tattooed on your forehead is irrelevant.

You are allowed to put your refferal link on your signature
So, when you make promotion, ask users to join through refferal link on your signature
And you might want to use link shortener, so every user can't know the refferal link

Any you should know it already when you join this forum

Still referral spam.

If you pay people to register under your ref link it works on games and rounds, also sometimes when people find new promos or giveaways they give their ref link and a non ref link, seems to be allowed aswell.

Still referral spam.

If this is true then why are all the faucet rotator posts allowed on this Microearnings subforum and not deleted?  Half this forum is just people constantly making new threads about their rotator which is just essentially a different why of them trying to get referrals.  They're not discovering anything new, everyone has the same faucets they're trying to get refs to.