Free Online Polls
One of the easier ways to make money online is to get paid for giving something away.
Free online polls is a way of making money by having website visitors complete a poll on a topical subject.
The systems needs a bit of setup, but can be quite profitable and is a proven way to earn with CPA offers.
It works a bit like this:
Get a poll idea
Go to somewhere like the Yahoo Buzz index and look for a popular event. Could be sports, political scandal, NBA etc.
Identify a couple of prominent people associated with the event. This iedea is that the epole who visit your site will be more likely to relate to the people in the event than the event themselves. This “connection” in turn makes them more likely to take part in the poll.
Sign Up for a few CPA c networks who have email offers
Email submits pay from $.50c to $1.30 when someone enters their email address only. The offers are free for your visitor to take part in. Generally the visitor get free product or a discount voucher in return for supplying their email address. Azoogle, Affiliate.com, Hydra Media, Flux Ads, XY7, NeverBlue Ads, Ourfreestuff and Canadian Sponsors all offer email submits.
Setup an Ad Campaign in Google Adwords
Fire up an ad on the content network where the traffic is a lot cheaper. Start with your bid at about .20cents then bid it down to around 10cents or lower.
Googles adwords is theme based not keyword based. So go to your favourite keyword tool and generate a good thousand keywords. Break them into groups of 50 and use them in your Adwords campaign.
Create A Landing Page
Traffic is sent from Google to the landing page where visitors are invited to take a survey. They click on the option they choose from the survey and are directed to the offer page as a free gift for completing the survey. Once the visitor enters their email they get the free gift and you get paid.
For a successful campaign the numbers might look a bit like this:
- Assume average cost per keyword is 8 cents.
- Say 12% of visitors will submit their email and the offer pays $1.30.
- So 100 visitors would cost $8. If 12 of them submit their email you would be paid $15.6
- In rough terms you would more than double your money on a successful campaign.
Sounds easy but its not
- Allow for 30% of your campaigns to be unsuccessfull
- You need to kill unsuccessful campaigns quickly to stay in profit over-all
- Since the polls are based around an event, the campaigns generally only work short term, you need to be always adding new campaigns to keep bringing in the money.
Some people make a lot of money with this method. Its been around for a long time.
In the link below Stephen claims to be making $3,000 to $5,000 per month with this method.
Generally people fail because
- They don’t have the right tools – you need to automate everything to be able to generate lots of polls
- They dont have the right knowledge about how to go about it
- They are not prepared to work hard enough
There is a pretty good thread about this technique here. Steven who started the thread is doing a soft sell to get you to buy his ebook and then join PPC coach.
However the information in the thread is excellent.
If you want to dig deeper you can buy the ebook for $9.00 (I own a copy).
For $50/month you could join PPC Coach. This program has a good reputation just do a google search to see for yourself, or check out this short thread.
You can also check out the Poll Factory with a short review of this product here
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You know, I have to tell you, I really enjoy this blog and the insight from everyone who participates. I find it to be refreshing and very informative. I wish there were more blogs like it. Anyway, I felt it was about time I posted, I?ve spent most of my time here just lurking and reading, but today for some reason I just felt compelled to say this.
Great Information. I will be checking in the near future. Please keep posting — you have some loyal readers out there!
Rarely do I find a new idea or method for making money online, but I’m glad I found this. I’m with Mike, as I am a lurker who finally decided to post a comment. I’ll be sure to pass this one on to them members if my forum. Thank you very much.
I’ve never tried doing online polls. But now that you’ve provided some useful info, I’m probably going to. Thank you for this amazing post. I’m sure it has helped so many people who want to earn more money. :-)
Honestly, I’ve never tried doing online polls. It can be worth the try though (now that you’ve mentioned that there’s money in it).
But from the looks of it, it seems easier to earn more money from affiliates. Online polls just require too much of a hard work. I agree with you that anyone who decides to engage in this gig really needs to check for the hottest issues to get people to participate.
Posts like this one get your creative juices flowing. The part I really like (aside from the whole post itself) is the information on creating multiple polls in order to keep the income flowing. I would never have thought of that on my own.
Thanks for the information. It is another internet income stream that is very doable and one I like.
I’ll be checking back often to get more tips from you.
Kelli-Ann
This post reminds me of the time when I was a young dude selling candy and chips. There were weeks where we experimented with different products to see what would sell, some would fail terribly : we would get rid of those products fast, sometimes even give it away.
But then there was those huge winners: a certain flavor bag of chips, a different colored juice, etc that made me 90% of the profits.
This strategy looks good, but personally, if im going to be putting that kind of work into it, I may as well sell bigger ticket items and make 50x the money.
I have used places like Azoogle for product sales but never tried the email cpature route. I will look for a theme and give it a try or two. As always the world will split into those who think and those who do.
I have experienced first hand how tough it is to get participants for a research project. People taking completing online polls and surveys cuts the knife on both ends, it’s win-win!
I’ve never had much luck with anything other than adsense, but i’ve also not had a huge amount of traffic either. Maybe I should change things up a little bit, thanks for the tips!
Is there a way to search for polls that fit with your existing website content? Or are you typically expected to create your own questions and answers?
You know, I’ve been surfing quite a bit through blog after blog after blog, for some of those “special” articles one hardly ever sees….this is one of them~!
Nice Job.
Frank
This sounds like a good strategy to get started in a niche and move onto higher ticket items when you had a list. i think you would need to be quite organised and automated to earn $5000 a month at this.
Lots of great tips on how to do this – I’d say it would definitely take some doing to get setup to the point where you could make a decent amount off of, but it is probably worth a look.