Room for another 'freebie' site?

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Hey guys. Just brainstorming about different ways to make money online, and I wanted to try out a freebie site like freeipod.com or something else along those lines. I could set it up with one of the many scripts, and with me being a freelance designer I'm 100% confident I can make a design that will whoop all of the other freebie sites asses. Then open up an aff campaign to get signups, along with an Adwords campaign. I know that I'll need a unique approach to it, and target a specific niche, but with that understood do you think there is room for another freebie site? Does anybody have any experience with these sites, along with any information on them? Also, what are they commonly called so that I can do some Google searches for research purposes. Thanks.
 


Do you mean that you are running the free ipod (or whatever) program? In other words you give people "points" for completing offers then trade in those points and you give them a "free" ipod?
 
just take a look at what sites are in the SERP's or running PPC ads for your terms and go from there. research your niche and corresponding demographic, and try and determine whether this niche is something you could make work with your skill set / resources.[SIZE=-1]
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I own a "freebie" site, it is really going down hill. Due to all of the fraud. Many advertisers are taking a lot of offers off and decreasing how much they pay for the offer. A few months ago you could make some decent money. But I think it isn't as worth it as it use to be.
 
Take lucab's advice. I've found that there is always room for more. Even today, a lot of the top sites in profitable niches don't properly employ all of the SEO methods out there, and it is always possible to out-SEO established sites. Find out if the ones in your niche do or not.
 
I read the first line.

DONT DO IT!

Seriously man, I damn near ran that industry back in the day. It was riddled with fraud. Im glad I got out of it when I did because it has crashed since then.

Payouts for offers are so low now that you have to get users to do a ridiculous amount of work to get a shitty little prize. Its possible to make money, yeah. Damn near anything is. But what you want is people to actually LIKE your site and refer it to friends and, at the rate its going, its too much work to actually LIKE these sites anymore.

If you want to talk more detail PM me.
 
I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.. networks are pulling incentive offers left and right..
 
I run an incentive site but I just pay my people in cash instead of in prizes like you are thinking. I do have points available and prizes are available that way, but points are only available through paid emails. It is not horrible money but you need to build loyalty and make the site fun. I have like a Paid to Chat section, Slot Machine, a forum, auction area, and run constant contests to keep people coming back and I don't have to rely 100% on the incentive offers. The Pay to Read emails works out for me actually pretty well, and I do a lot of email marketing this way. I personally didn't think the emails would be worth it, but after I got a loyal member base, it actually produces a decent income. Incentive offers are being pulled fast, though, as all the others have said and fraud is big.
 
There are room for most type sites on the web. You can still quite easily grow a site from small to something that will make enough money to life on. The only one I wouldn't do really is a search engine unless you have the wit to compete with the big 3.
 
Anything can work. Most of the freebie sites are run by 15 year olds and won't be hard to beat. While a lot of incentive offers have been disappearing lately, no one with half a brain would suggest that incentive marketing is going away. Just have to go with the flow ...
 
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