How to Make More Money from Bitcoin Faucets

InfiSecure has been helping bitcoin faucet websites earn more money every month. Based on this experience, in this post we are going to tell you what are bitcoin faucets, how to monetize and get more traffic on your faucet and lastly and most important, how can you protect your bitcoin faucet from bots and fraudsters.

What are Bitcoin Faucets

A Bitcoin faucet is a website that gives out a few Bitcoins to its website visitors, usually in exchange for clicking on ads, solving a captcha or visiting another site after every few hours. The bitcoin amount can vary anywhere from 100 Satoshis up to 10,000 Satoshis and more. Usually, after a user receives reward coins, there is a certain amount of waiting time until one can ask for another batch.

It just takes 5 minutes and a few steps on faucetfly to set up your bitcoin faucet website.

How to Monetize your Bitcoin Faucets

There are various ways of monetization a faucet website.

1. Using ads on your website - By far the most popular way for monetizing a faucet is through ads. If you're new to Google Adsense and signing up as a publisher. If you're looking for more options aside from Google Adsense then a few of our customers use CoinAd. Another option for generating money through advertising is Anonymous Ads. Unlike CoinAd they do not have a screening process and will accept practically anyone as a publisher.


2. Using affiliate or referral links - Another way you can monetize your faucet is through affiliate or referral links. One example for this is to place a link saying, "Don't have a Bitcoin wallet?" under the text box where the user needs to enter his Bitcoin address. This link can be your referral link to any of your bitcoin affiliate network and you will receive a referral commission if an eligible user signs up and later on buy Bitcoins from the affiliate network.


3. Build a faucet rotator and earn referrals - Some faucets will also refer their users to other faucets in order to receive a referral commission from them. One way to do this is by building a bitcoin faucet rotator. A rotator site is site that allows you to quickly surf through different faucets without opening a new site or tab each time.

How to Get More Web Traffic to Your Bitcoin Faucet

It would be impossible to generate a substantial amount of revenue from your faucet without a reasonable amount of traffic. Getting cheap converting traffic for your faucet will probably be the hardest task you'll need to accomplish. Here are 4 ways to get more traffic to your faucet:

1. Approach popular faucet rotators in order to get your faucet listed on them. Some examples are iFaucet and Makejar.com.. These sites have unbelievable amounts of traffic and if you manage to get your faucet on the top of their list, you're golden.


2. Create a thread on BitcoinTalk promoting your faucet. The relevant board to post this on will be Micro Earning. The main idea is for you to have a place where you can post updates about your faucet or even have "flash hours" where you give away higher rewards and get more traffic.


3. Add social buttons to your faucet allowing people to share it with their own referral link.


4. By far the best way to get more traffic to your faucet is by giving away higher referral payments, however this will boost your expenses and will also invite bots to steal the coins. You can always offer a high, one-time payment for one of the popular faucets rotator site in exchange for sending you more traffic.

How to Protect Your Bitcoin Faucet from Bots and Spammers

When you run a faucet, you're waging a constant battle against bots, fraudsters, and hackers that will try to steal your faucet's Bitcoins 24*7. Bots are used in order to visit your site, claim the coins automatically and leave you with no profit, as bots can be programmed to not to click on ads. Bots will destroy your profitability and you have to deploy solutions that can help your faucet stay protected.

Mostly, bot abusers will use a VPN or a proxy in order to change their IP and allow themselves to reclaim coins from your faucet without having to wait for the timer to relapse.

Fortunately, there are only a few robust bot protection platforms that can help the Bitcoin community completely eliminate malicious attacks by bots. Yes, it is certainly possible to remove bots on your faucet completely. A robust bot protection solution will provide an active protection against hackers and spammers, keeping your cash-flow under control and help you earn more money.

4 Bonus InfiSecure tips for your Bitcoin Faucet

Here are 4 InfiSecure tips from our learnings after protection bitcoin faucets from bot attacks:

1. Traditional techniques to block bots like blocking specific IP addresses, employing captchas or blocking proxy servers will not give you complete protection against online bots. Human mimicking bots still will be able to steal your bitcoins. These techniques are just ad-hoc solutions.


2. If you don't have a SaaS-based active bot protection service, it's better to pay small amounts of money at shorter intervals than large amounts of money in longer intervals. This is due to the fact that some people will apply bots to claim their Bitcoins multiple times and override the site's timer. If your payout is larger, this will put you at a loss.


3. We also advise you to pay out smaller amounts and give a higher referral reward. This will get more people referring visitors to your faucet than a higher payout for the visitor and a smaller referral reward.


4. When putting your ad placements on your bitcoin faucet website page, it's best to make sure that they are as visible as possible. This means you should use large ad formats and place them next to where to the visitor will probably be looking.

If you are looking forward to starting a bitcoin faucet or are already running one, we would be glad to help you earn more.