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ubux.us
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Method: PTC
Brief history
ubux.us is a PTC site that was part of the Titan Cash
Network and hit the Alexa rank not so long ago. It has
recently been taken over by a new owner.
Because of its association with the popular Network the site has been able
to get a head start and push it beyond what most new PTC
sites can achieve in terms of popularity. It appears this
site is largely a production from market research produced
by what is currently established at Titan Cash. Of all the
PTC networks the Titan Cash Network holds the largest number
of PTC sites where as most other PTC sites work alone
outside of networks.
Design
Clearly a lot of people have a habit of slating sites that
run the bux clone script without knowing if their script has
been secured, this is nothing strange to our ventures but
here we see a bux clone within the Titan Cash Network but
not only is this a clone but it is deliberately made to look
like the most popular site bux.to.
Until recently it has been something of a mystery as to why
many sites are doing this but we do know that some are doing
it to see if it makes the site more popular. On this site we
not only see the same colours and layout but the logo is
deliberately made to look like that of bux.to
While this could be an experiment it must said that such a
test won’t always produce good results. Weather the PTC
industry likes it or not it’s a business and a business that
needs to broaden its field of investor’s weather it be a
larger target audience or more advertisers. The difference
between the PTC industry now and any offline business is
that corporate ID is massively important offline with some
very harsh copy right laws. For outside investor’s to come
to the PTC industry to find lots of sites mimicking each
other corporate ID it will only put them off.
In sort this experiment of sites trying to see if a bux.to
design makes a site more popular does work to an extent but
only to those people who are already in the industry and it
does not take like to show it to all of them.
Advertising
For 1000 ad views the price is $19.10 and with 2500 it’s a
very high $46.75. Although the traffic is good here this
site needs to go a little further to make these prices
better value. The prices are very similar to that at bux.to
but this is a little early for the higher packages. The
package of 2500 in particular is about $10 more than it
should be for the traffic it has. However given the rate of
this site progress popularity it may be to late to make any
changes as it wont take long for them to reach a more
fitting traffic rank.
Referral system
The referral system is very much in sync with industry
standards giving you the ability to purchase referrals and
gain them from your referral link. The packages here come in
3 options with 5 referrals for $6.95, 35 referrals for
$34.65 and 100 referrals for $89.95. These prices are good
and fit the 100% down line here. If you have used the
service for awhile and feel you trust it there is also a
higher rolling option of 500 referrals for $429.00. Like the
design of this site much of these packages are prices match
that of bux.to which means if this is an experiment to find
how bux did so well then they are holding the right
settings.
Upgrades
The upgrade package here is $59.00 for a full year which
gives you all the benefits of any high performance PTC site
such as the popular 25% increased earnings. What makes this
package interesting is that the processing time is stated as
instant. This could mean they have good staff or more
automated processes.
Performance
For standard members we found 9 $0.01 ads to click when
testing this site. Much of the performance here matches the
performance of bux.to with much focus on providing 100%
performance to standard clicks and referral earnings. The
premium membership will of course contain many more ads with
that curial 25% bonus making this quite a high performer for
standard and premium members.
Conclusion
Looking at the results from this sites performance rates it
does make it seem a little more unnecessary for the design
to actually mimic bux.to. The fact of the matter is that
without a unique corporate ID they are missing out on a
wider field of traffic and they would not lose profit to
hold a unique design because they already hold good
performance. At the end of the day it does not matter if
your site looks like the best PTC site it all comes down to
what substance your site has so really the design would be
better of if it were unique here.
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