Trying PPD with cleanfiles... I just don't get it !

Hi

I'm very new with PPD and I just gave it a try yesterday. I registered with cleanfiles which seems to be a very nice service. I uploaded one or two files.

Then I tried to download one of the files I uploaded, in order to see what kind of surveys my visitors would have to complete. And I just don't understand how users can fill theses surveys. I tried several ones, and I was forced to give up (so no file downloaded) because this was reallly REALLY annoying. Here is a little summary of my tests:

First try:
Not really a survey, but I had to put my phone number in order to download a crappy game, costing around $4 a week. WTF !? Do users have to pay something to download files ?

Second try:
A survey to fill. 20 questions to answer ? Okay, no problem. At the end of the survey, thinking I was going to be able to download my file, I had a second survey to fill... with a zillion questions. And at the end of that survey, another one, with again 40 questions, and so on. WTF !?

I tried several options (in french, which is my country, and in USA), but each time I gave up filling those stupid surveys. If I myself can't finish those surveys just testing, I wonder how my visitors would fill 10 surveys in order to download a file...

As a matter of fact, I knew that PPD involved filling surveys, but I didn't know that it could be ten surveys with each 30 or 40 questions to answer, or that the users would have to pay something to get access to the file.

I think I'm missing something or don't really understand how PPD work. Does anyone have tried these surveys ? I know some people are making $$$ with PPD, but I find it hard to believe that you can do it with users paying or filling several surveys at a time.

Can someone explain me how people would fill those surveys without ending to throw away their computer ?

Yes, I have been trying the same and its just mad. I ran through some of those survey myself to see what the user experience will do. After trying for 4 times and answering about 6-8 questions each, I was notified that I do not fit the profile and I have to start again. I just gave up really. And like OP, I am using cleanfiles too and am looking for alternatives.

Well, the best alternative here is to cut the middle man and start using your own content locker with offers that you choose.

I'm going to quote a previous response that I had in this thread "CPA, PPD and Content locker networks Profitable?" because it's pretty much exactly the same question.

tresm said:

Hey scoder,

I think the idea that you are getting hung up upon is that you have to fill in offers for hours. Usually this isn't the case, a lot of submits can only take a minute to a few minutes, it really depends on what is in rotation at that moment. Furthermore, you can optimize offers for your traffic so you can see what works and what doesn't (for example if 100 people click "GET FREE APPLES AND ORANGES" and none actually complete it, they will remove this [I didn't see what company you are with but AdworkMedia has this for sure]). As well as this, the most profitable are usually also the quickest (mobile pin submits). A single submit can ring up to $20 for you.

So just remember, you got unlucky with your traffic but don't give up. 150 clicks is not nearly enough to call it quits! Make sure you have a nice landing page, a good website/blog and give people enough incentive to actually follow through and complete the survey! If you just spam some random people in a chat room saying "GET FREE XBOXES HERE ____" this won't be a high quality way of getting traffic.

Hope I was of some help.

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tl;dr - not all surveys are like that. Make sure to optimize and fine-tune and give people enough incentive to actually do long surveys if those are the only ones available.

I wish some expert can give relevant answer or any method so that newbie like me and OP can survive with it.

jhakasseo said:

I wish some expert can give relevant answer or any method so that newbie like me and OP can survive with it.

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Well I think the above answers are relevant enough. I think I have to find other ways that fit better to me.