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