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LeadBolt’s content unlocking technologies are simple, easy to install and provide publishers with a revolutionary approach to making real money from their website traffic or website content!
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Leadbolt is a new content gateway company that has opened up. They are based in Australia and do pretty much the same thing as other incentive widget companies do: if you have content that you would like “blocked” from users, you can utilize their tools to try and get your users to perform a task (such as complete a survey) in order to get to your content. They don’t only do this — they have a couple other features as well, such as impression advertising — but content gateways is their main source of traffic.
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Since Leadbolt is the new kid on the block in content gateway companies, we at CashBackAffiliates figured we should give them a try and compare earnings to what a user can expect on other networks such as CPALead with similar content. What were the results?
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Well, the main thing we can say is that our earnings were inconsistent. With Leadbolt, you are not able to control which offers show up in your gateway. They handle that “for” you, which they believe is a better way of doing it because they’re the experts and can see a lot more data than you can. Personally, we at CashBackAffiliates do not prefer this method; we prefer there be at least the option of disabling some offers. There are several good reasons for this argument, but this is Leadbolt’s business plan so they can do what they please. For the vast majority of publishers, they’re probably correct in their assumption that they can manage the ads better than the publisher can.
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One of the cool features of Leadbolt is that you can specify the niche that your content is in and they will tailor which offers appear depending upon that niche. For example, if you have an “adult” site, you can choose that niche, and they will display adult advertisements. If you have a tv streaming site, you can choose that and they will use their aggregate information to decide what ads typically do well on tv sites. This kind of makes up for the inability to choose which ads show up on your gateway to a degree.
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Their gateway creation wizard is very intuitive and presented no problems to use at CBA. We were able to within a few clicks create and edit gateways to put on our sites, with no confusion whatsoever. They aren’t very flexible in what you can do in the way that InstantDollarz or Adscend are, but Leadbolt is flexible enough for most users, including this reviewer.
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Their payout options are slim, currently only allowing wire and Paypal, but they do pay out on time and without any hassle. We have been paid several thousand dollars so far with no issues at all. For most publishers, the payout frequency is once per month net-30, but if you do over $3000 in revenue per day you can get into their VIP program (more details below) and likely receive your payments more frequently.
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Their referral system payouts are very bad compared to all other incentive gateway companies. The industry average is a payout of 5% for the life of the account, but with Leadbolt they only pay out 2.5% for the first six months, then nothing after that. We have asked them to change this but thus far no luck — maybe if you readers appeal we’ll be able to see a change?
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VIP Program Details: We reached out to Leadbolt to find out what exactly you get as part of the VIP Program. Turns out you get some of the features I requested above, such as:
-A dedicated account manager (right now they do kind of like Azoogle Advisors)
-Fast payment options
-Custom skins for locks
-Ability to see and modify which offers are displayed
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That said, if you join Leadbolt you could be eligible to receive 20% of the referral revenue generated through your account. So, why wait? Give Leadbolt a try by clicking the image below!
I am not promoting, just reviewing.
.
Leadbolt is a new content gateway company that has opened up. They are based in Australia and do pretty much the same thing as other incentive widget companies do: if you have content that you would like “blocked” from users, you can utilize their tools to try and get your users to perform a task (such as complete a survey) in order to get to your content. They don’t only do this — they have a couple other features as well, such as impression advertising — but content gateways is their main source of traffic.
.
Since Leadbolt is the new kid on the block in content gateway companies, we at CashBackAffiliates figured we should give them a try and compare earnings to what a user can expect on other networks such as CPALead with similar content. What were the results?
.
Well, the main thing we can say is that our earnings were inconsistent. With Leadbolt, you are not able to control which offers show up in your gateway. They handle that “for” you, which they believe is a better way of doing it because they’re the experts and can see a lot more data than you can. Personally, we at CashBackAffiliates do not prefer this method; we prefer there be at least the option of disabling some offers. There are several good reasons for this argument, but this is Leadbolt’s business plan so they can do what they please. For the vast majority of publishers, they’re probably correct in their assumption that they can manage the ads better than the publisher can.
.
One of the cool features of Leadbolt is that you can specify the niche that your content is in and they will tailor which offers appear depending upon that niche. For example, if you have an “adult” site, you can choose that niche, and they will display adult advertisements. If you have a tv streaming site, you can choose that and they will use their aggregate information to decide what ads typically do well on tv sites. This kind of makes up for the inability to choose which ads show up on your gateway to a degree.
.
Their gateway creation wizard is very intuitive and presented no problems to use at CBA. We were able to within a few clicks create and edit gateways to put on our sites, with no confusion whatsoever. They aren’t very flexible in what you can do in the way that InstantDollarz or Adscend are, but Leadbolt is flexible enough for most users, including this reviewer.
.
Their payout options are slim, currently only allowing wire and Paypal, but they do pay out on time and without any hassle. We have been paid several thousand dollars so far with no issues at all. For most publishers, the payout frequency is once per month net-30, but if you do over $3000 in revenue per day you can get into their VIP program (more details below) and likely receive your payments more frequently.
.
Their referral system payouts are very bad compared to all other incentive gateway companies. The industry average is a payout of 5% for the life of the account, but with Leadbolt they only pay out 2.5% for the first six months, then nothing after that. We have asked them to change this but thus far no luck — maybe if you readers appeal we’ll be able to see a change?
.
VIP Program Details: We reached out to Leadbolt to find out what exactly you get as part of the VIP Program. Turns out you get some of the features I requested above, such as:
-A dedicated account manager (right now they do kind of like Azoogle Advisors)
-Fast payment options
-Custom skins for locks
-Ability to see and modify which offers are displayed
.
That said, if you join Leadbolt you could be eligible to receive 20% of the referral revenue generated through your account. So, why wait? Give Leadbolt a try by clicking the image below!
I am not promoting, just reviewing.
