Pay for cliks good or bad idea for Games website?

[Bender]

I received letter from http://www.PayClick.org/.Is anybody worked with that company? Is any possible negative consequences for my website?
What are you thinking about collaboration with that company?

[Anlino]

My personal opinion is that ad's don't belong on a site selling games. If you are giving out games for free, then placing ad's on the site would be reasonable. But i believe that people generally dislike a site full of ads.

50 cent's per click seems very reasonable. It could probably make you a pretty decent amount of money.

[Bender]

Site of that company looks poor. And i have't confedence that all information on this site is true.

[steve bisson]

Site of that company looks poor. And i have't confedence that all information on this site is true.

I find that webpage very suspicious. The design totally doest make me want to subcribe to this and thoses disney / warner bros / pc magasine rave reviews ???

50 cents per click is very high too ! and they claim this to be a MINIMUM.

Do you have control on the adds ? might be a bunch of porn hehe

Having adds everywhere does get mind numbing... i remember on some streaming video webpage the 30 sec car add was played for every videos and its only after watching about 25 videos my mind gave it attention and went " ho thats a car add " i totally tune out internet adds. I am not sure there is a lot of money to make with pay per click. Maybe pay per impressions is better ? anyone as experience comparing the two ?

[Savant]

It says, "This site requires Internet Explorer.", at the top and then at the bottom they claim to be proficient in every web technology known to man.

Yeah.

[papillon]

Even porn doesn't pay .50 per click. At least when I was still in the game, the numbers were more like .03-.05 blind, .10-.15 targeted (with performance minimums required).

In fact, looking over sponsor websites now, I don't see anyone offering a program for over .10 per unique click. .15-.25 you can get for toolbar or bookmark installs, but not for clicking. NOBODY offers .50 per click.

Promising such a rate generally means only one thing - SHAVING. Most of your clicks will be deemed to be invalid and not payable. If you look at the terms of use, you can see that they pretty much give themselves grounds to declare any click invalid if they feel like it.

[Sybixsus]

I got an email from these guys too. It went straight in the trash.

[GameStudioD]

I for one do not ignore great opportunities in my inbox. Just last week, a Nigerian emailed me for assistance transfering $50 million dollars to the US. All they needed was my bank account number and other personal information and I would get 25%. Those Nigerians are so generous.

[Robert Cummings]

Higher Payouts: We guaranty that you will receive a minimum of 50 cents per click. Other Ad Networks only pay a fraction of that amount. If you receive high-quality

Wow! they 'Guaranty' it. Perhaps that means something in their native tongue cos it certainly isn't English.

[DFG]

Never heard of them. .50 is way too high. Go Google Adwords.

[Cartman]

Along these lines, I was just reading an article on pay for click services in Wired magazine(January 2006). Very good article expaining how it works on Google and Yahoo, and the problems that advertisers are finding with it.

[cyodine]

Actually, the.50 per click might not be shaving. When I went to that site the 2 ads that I saw posted there were for buying real estate in Costa Rica and opening up a account for buying/selling market shares. Minimum cost to open up the account was $500, and the real estate in Costa Rica mentioned a free dvd and brochure. They pack enough info into the tiny ads that in most cases, only serious leads go to it, and the profits for a successful lead can offset the .50 click.

The main problem I see is needing a web site that's trafficked by enough of these high rollers so that you actually get some decent clicks. A successful stock broker blog or some such, or perhaps that guy that has a yachting simulation game might some of that traffic :P