Trying out CPALead
I’ve recently registered at CPAlead and i started testing it out, I’ve seen numerous websites on sale that generate revenue through CPALead, the concept is very simple, your website members or visitors fill out a survey for either access to a premium area or to view certain content and you make money out of the survey, the payout depends on the survey and on the country your members come from.
The majority of the top paying offers are targeted for the US market, but you can still find surveys for almost all countries so you can monetize your websites no matter where you traffic comes from, pay outs range from $0.25 to $30 in some cases!
My idea is to give our members on our games the opportunity to get premium memberships through means other than paying money out of their pocket, allot of members will certainly appreciate it since not all of them are able to pay real cash, of course what they get in return might not be as good as those who pay in real cash simply because some sruveys dont pay as much.
The part that i still need to figure out, still waiting on a reply from CPAlead on that is whether they have an API that we can use in order to credit members once they filled out the survey and to know the amount that each survey pays out in order to do a calculation on how much premium days the member gets since each survey varies allot in its payout, the good thing however is that cpalead automatically geo-targets the survey to whoever is viewing it, so we dont have to worry about building a system to do that, which would have been allot of work!
December 28th, 2009 at 10:36 am
I have a huge issue with these services. Many of my members complain of spam when using real contact information as they should do (i.e. e-mail addresses, postal addresses passed onto other companies). In addition to this I had a case where a company sent me 5 books once they had my postal address with an invoice shortly after for 5 GBP – I stupidly ignored this and soon faced a 50 GBP non-payment charge. I’m pretty sure I read all the small print but perhaps not! My point is that these offers aren’t all goody too shoes, I’m not sure it’s worth it at all. Many users may not be internet savvy and , for example , end up downloading a toolbar for one of the offers which is coupled with some adware etc!
Regarding the API, yeah, CPALead allows you to set up the way you’re wanting to.
December 28th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Thanks for the heads up Mike, I will check this out with CPALead and check some of the offers myself before going ahead and launching it on our games.
December 28th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Hey there Sohaib, This is Jason Swan with CPALead, I read your blog and I see you said you are awaiting a reply from us regarding API, I have not received a ticket from you (or maybe I already answered it??), I just wanted to let you know we do offer postback service where we can ping your site on completion of surveys and you can keep your own record of everything.
December 29th, 2009 at 12:28 am
Thanks for the info Jason, I did find the postback info later on
January 23rd, 2010 at 7:16 pm
Currently traveling between Miami and Florida, reading this on my Iphone. Will read it in full when I get back, and I will also post a backlink on my website. Thanks.