Make money with CreditBurner PTP Network
Ajith | Jul 2008 | About Online Ads, New Money Makers, Product Reviews
Update (01-Oct-’09): CreditBurner is merged into BlueAdvertise!
CreditBurner is a PTP network (Paid-To-Promote). They have a wide variety options to choose when it comes to ad types that the publishers can display on their blogs or websites. I had a 10 day long trial with CreditBurner and the following is my view on this network, based on my experience with their CPM banner ads alone.
Sign up Process
The sign up for publishers is extremely fast as you can get started as soon as you enroll. There is no major site requirement in order to become a publisher with CreditBurner and moreover their simple sign up form does not even ask for any site information where the ads might get displayed. As a publisher, you just need to provide your name, email address, snail mail address and PayPal/EGold information to get started. There is a signup credit of $0.35 for every publisher.
(The English version of their website – probably maintained by Non-English speaking people – is full of grammatical errors and spelling mistakes and that is the first thing one would notice.
Ad types supported and conversion rates
CreditBurner supports traditional banner ads, full-page ads, PopUnders and Link Ads. In addition there is something called a Treasure Ad that places a small treasure box on your website. I did not quite try this as I didn’t understand it much (It is more like playing a treasure-hunt game where you collect points, by opening up the treasure box, which in turn gets converted to money).
A publisher can place a combination of banner ads, link ads, PopUnders and treasure boxes. Only one banner ad is allowed per page though text ads can be more in number. A PopUnder along with banner will yield maximum CPM, according to them!
As per CreditBurner, the banner ads get a CPM rate as high as $1.10 for level 1 traffic and $0.75 for level 2. These levels are based on the country where the traffic is generated from (List of Level 1 and Level 2 countries are available on their website). The PopUnders claim to yield $1.20 to $2.40 CPM rates and the full-page ads $1.00 to $6.00. The CPC rates are also pretty promising for Link and Context ads. The CPM is
not based on page views but on Unique Visitors. From my 10 day trial I found that my effective CPM rates were between $0.18 and $0.20 for 1000 page views and around $0.40 for 1000 unique visitors for overall traffic in flow. I have about 40% of my traffic coming in from the US and 30% from India which are Level 1 countries in their eye. I found that the returns were much better than my other CPM ads (AdBrite etc) but probably not as good as many of the premium networks. But if you have a few referrals this can dramatically increase as you get 10% of the referred publishers’ earnings as well.
The CPC ads are a bit difficult to customize as there are no visual tools available. But I did not use these text ads yet as I am pretty happy with Bidvertiser on that front.
Payment Process
The payments are done every week either via PayPal or EGold. You can get a payment as soon as you earn a minimum of $2.50 which is quite convenient as you get paid earlier than most other networks.
What is not so good?
The first thing you notice (after the poor English on their website) is the quality of banners. The banners are not very elegant looking and looks as if they were done by amateurs. This is an issue probably associated with many other PTP networks as well. Also from my short experiments with various ad sizes, I found that the earnings don’t really differ between bigger ad blocks (such as a 160×600 skyscraper) and small banners. So it is ideal to place a 468×60 banner somewhere near the footer area as even the location of ad does not play any role in the earnings! Another thing I did not like about CreditBurner is the fact
that they will actually cancel your account if you are idle (not displaying ads) for more than a week or so.
Overall Recommendation
CreditBurner can give you very good returns if your site has a decent number of daily visitors. It is not a complete replacement for your CPM ads but rather complement them. There are premium CPM ad networks that pay higher but again many of them don’t even approve sites with medium traffic. Another plus point is the weekly payments!
If the above review sounds good, you may sign up with CreditBurner and start earning!
Will check them out. Lets see what’s on offer. BTW good comprehensive review.
Yes Rajeev, you should try it out…should definitely add some additional income on a weekly basis.
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I am already using Creditburner, I already have a payment request as long as I earned enough to payout but the site ! ? ? changes the idea of weekly payments
Payout date table
PAYOUTS SCHEDULE CHANGED TO BI-MONTHLY
So now I am wondering if they are going to pay or not on the 30.07.2008 which is the next payment day hope they are not scam
Last week they changed the payout cycle, however, it is still worth sticking on to them as they have one of the best CPM rates. Even, I am suffering from the same issue but hope to get the payment coming on 30th July.
Regards,
Ajith
Funky, I got my payment yesterday for whichever period I was actively using CreditBurner. Hope you got yours as well…
cool. I joined creditburner the other day and this review tells me i’ve made the right decision. Btw i have another network’s ads running, MVAV, what’s your take on that one? they provide 6$ CPM
Has anyone else noticed some of the banners play muzak on your site??
The payout’s okay, but this could really annoy the visitors
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Hmm… I did not face the music issue as I removed the banner from my homepage somtime back. Probably that is the price you have to pay for high payout ratios
Cheers.
Ajtih
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i joined credit burner last week and will check it for a month.. then i’ll let u know wether it suited me or not
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@Atul, if you have decent amount of traffic you should be able to make big money out of it… One of my referrals (I can see how much he’s making) is making around $15-$20 a week. The returns will dramatically increase with more referrals signed up under you.
I signed up for CreditBurner after clicking the link from your website. I’m testing it out and hopefully it give me some good return.
The bad thing about CPM per unit visitors is very tough. Do you know of any network that pay per impressions (not unique)?
Thanks for the great review.
BTW, I’m new here and wonder if you allow me to place keyword in the Author name?
@Binh, CreditBurner is a great solution that pays consistently and is pretty reliable. Well, if you get enough traffic you don’t need to worry about uniques and page views right? In fact, those CPM networks that pay for pageviews will be low on their CPM rates.
As for your other query, I am allowing keyword author names once in a while… I hope not all commenters will be putting keywords into their comments.
Thanks a lot for your comment as well as for signing up under me for CB
I like Credit Burners rates but the ads seem to redirct my site to yellow pages alot. Is there a way around this ?
@Sandra, I used to have this problem earlier but no more. Have you by any chance used interstitial ads along with your banners?
Well I am giving this company a go. I use adbrite and do not earn a lot of money for my gaming and celebrity website but my site is still growing nicley!! How much should a website generate around if you have:
3000 uniques a month
25,000 page views
Most traffic from USA and United Kingdom.
Thanx.
@Brian, for 25K page views that is mostly from UK/US, it should return more than $10, I guess. AdBrite probably would give $1 or so for the same traffic.
And try to utilize the referral scheme that’s very attracive. If you have 10 signed up under your a/c you get 10% of their earnings as well in which case your earning potential doubles.
I have heard that the ads contain malicious code. Is that true?
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@Snam23, I have not experienced that though sometimes they include an interstital ad (a temporary full page ad that fades to original page after a couple of seconds). Somewhere I read that if you load opera mini, some malicious code will be disclosed. I tried it but could not find any.
Creditburner ads contains some malicious codes. Its is not worth full. Now you can earn more money. But you will lose your readers as well as your Blog marked as Spam from Firefox alert Database.
@Ajith Prasad : Really you are saying, it is not contains malicious codes. Can You please give the URLs, using this Creditburner Ads. In this blog, I could not find any Creditburner ads.
Also the commentators blogs does not contains Creditburner ads. Finally I can conclude Creditburner is the “Malicious Code Promoter”.
If Creditburner, is not the SCAM, Please give me the proof…
@Albert, I used credit burner actively on this blog only for a couple of months. And I stopped using it on the main blog pages now because I started selling private ads and my AdSense blocks started earning really well. I still use it though on my tools pages. Check out for yourself.
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Though I don’t really give out proof on what I earn, because you named it SCAM I am linking a screenshot from last year’s earnings below:
Credit Burner payout snapshot
Now could you provide details about the malicious code so that I could alert people to stop using CreditBurner? (Of course, they use iframes and sometimes interstitial ads. That doesn’t mean that it’s scam)
@Ajith Prasad : Thanks for your reply.
Nothing found at phishtank.com about CreditBurner. But really I had some Great experience by using of PTP ads. Its redirected to another Viral Marketing page. I’m continuous checking these sites with different IPs.
Yet I didn’t find any malicious code in CreditBurner
Anyhow if your are earning money means its ok. but we have to watch them….
I earn from some ptp sites. I got payments by doing very little work. I joined 1st ptp programs which are other than creditburner. Then i joined a TE that gave me 1 million hits for signup. I added my site on the TE, I also put some opoonderd to get reverse free visits. Now, I have complete fully automatic system. I call it The moneyhoney system.
it seem that creditburner has been running by other company now.
It is still worth sticking on to them as they have one of the best CPM rates. Even, I am suffering from the same issue but hope to get the payment coming