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UPDATE: Incentive Website Industry

Posted on 04. Sep, 2009 by $haz in General

Hey! Anyone remember me? Yeah you know, the weird looking brown guy who has many incentive websites and claims to be awesome?

Ok good, glad I haven’t been forgotten!

I know I randomly disappear for a while and then all of a sudden come back with updates and other helpful tips, but I can’t help it that my mind always thinks of creative and new ideas that I have to pursue. Anyway, I am back now and I should be updating frequently as I have found a way to manage my time a little better.

Let’s update everyone on the incentive/freebie/free stuff/anything with the word free industry. Just a caution, I tell it how I see it, so if I’m wrong about something then just correct me or if I forget something then alert me. So before I went on my hiatus, Free Lunch Room (FLR) was on it’s way down, Anything4Free was in the same position that it has always been, which is getting small traffic but a loyal user base, and Calistyle101 was upcoming with new ideas to generate forum traffic.

Forward couple months into the future to today’s date (9/4/09), Free Lunch Room is maintaining its traffic, although I have a feeling it’s more of them logging on and socializing/worshiping Leo Shimzu instead of trading now days. Anything4free.com is about the same that it’s always been. Lastly, Calistyle101.com has made some progressions but still a little behind Free Lunch Room in rankings.

As for Project Payday, I believe they’re still using all their traffic for themselves and netincomesolutions.com, this other forum ran by “Zman” aka Zollie which only allows to trade his freebie websites and no others. Project Payday decided to make freebie websites of their own to increase their profits, which I can’t believe they took so long to come up with. I keep forgetting which websites are theirs but once I figure it out I’ll let post about them. As for netincomesolutions.com, I’ll have a post about them and what they’re all about soon enough.

To sum it all up, incentive websites who advertise mainly in forums aren’t doing so well. I’m guessing only a select few who have crazy promotions every month are the only ones getting any type of significant traffic. As or the rest, it’s come to a screeching halt or a big drop in revenue. As for websites who have other sources of traffic (refer to traffic help link), they’re doing fairly well and maintaining their business.

Most of you might be wondering why the sudden drop in traffic of the freebie forums. To make it short, what happened is that Project Payday used to be the main source of traffic for everyone. Project Payday filtered all their traffic from search engines to freebie forums, which then filtered the traffic to the incentive websites. But then Project Payday decided that they could be making even more money if they just set up their own freebie websites and send all their traffic there. There are a few other rumors I’ve heard on why they chose to do this besides the money reasons, but I’ll save that for my Project Payday post.

As for incentive campaigns/offers, there are still a decent amount of popular incentive trials that have always made the incentive industry what it is. The lack of popular incentive offers is definitely not the reason for the slow down in traffic. I mean sure there are no more $1 Valuemax, Dealmax, At Home Rewards, etc, but there are still some $4.99 trials out there.

I think that about sums up the update on the incentive industry. I wouldn’t recommend anyone who doesn’t have a well thought out plan to generate traffic try to get into it right now. What I mean by that is, if you are looking to rely on the forums for traffic, you might as well donate your money to a charity and save your time. At least that way you’ll have a +1 in the good deeds category.

P.S. I was playing around with Photoshop, so that should explain the horrific header image to this post. I’m still amazed at how complicated I find Photoshop and web designing to be.

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