Frequently Asked Questions:
Below is our FAQ section. Hopefully it will answer any
questions you might have. If not, please feel free to ask us
by sending an e-mail
What is
gearbyte.org?
How much
does it cost and how many visitors will I
receive?
How does
your ranking system work?
How many
keywords am I allowed to bid on?
How
exactly is my balance spent?
Can I take money out of my account
after depositing?
Do I receive bonuses with any
deposits I make into my account?
What kind of banner advertising do I
get with a deposit of $100 or $200?
Who can become a gearbyte.org
affiliate?
Do I need to deposit money into my
account to become an affiliate?
What types of affiliate programs do
you offer and how much do they pay?
How do you pay your
affiliates?
What happens if I am caught cheating
or spamming?
What is
gearbyte.org?
gearbyte.org allows
advertisers to list their site in our search engine and
receive visitors at a cost-per-click basis, as low as $.01 per
click. Our service is much more cost
effective than other advertising methods because our service
is highly targeted. Instead of having your banner show up
randomly on different sites and hoping people will click your
link, surfers visit our site looking for specific content
using keywords you relate to your site, just like any other
search engine.
How much does it cost and how many
visitors will I receive?
A
minimum deposit is $25, but in return, you will receive $30 in
bids to use for keyword bids. You must bid at least $.01 for
each keyword you list. Traffic to your site from gearbyte.org
depends on many factors. For example, if you listed all your
keywords at 1 penny each, and your $30 balance was spent on
clicks to your site using the keywords you had bid 1 penny on,
that would give you 3,000 visits for only
$25!!
How does your ranking system
work?
All ranking is based
on advertiser bids. Follow this scenario: Let's say John
places a bid on the keyword "games" for $.01. If there are no
other bids on that keyword, John would automatically have the
#1 ranking for that keyword. If you come into the picture, and
place a bid on the keyword "games" for $.02 , you would then
become the #1 ranking site for that keyword, and John, saying
that he is still bidding $.01 for "games," would be moved down
to the #2 ranking site. So basically, the highest bidder for a
specific keyword will always receive the highest ranking for
that specific keyword, and lower bidders' listings will appear
under the highest bidder in descending order of their bid
amount.
How many keywords am I allowed to bid
on?
As many as you want. There is no
limit to the amount of keywords you can bid on, as long as the
keywords you bid on are related to your
site.
How exactly is my balance
spent?
Every time a surfer clicks on a
link to your site after searching with a keyword you made a
bid on, the bid amount for the keyword used to find your site
will be automatically deducted from your
account.
Can I take money out of my account
after depositing?
No. At this time, all deposits are
non-refundable.
Do I receive bonuses with any deposits I make
into my account?
Yes. All accounts will receive bonuses
for any and all deposits made. With a deposit of $25, you will
be credited with $30 to spend on keyword bids. With a deposit
of $50, you will be credited with $75 in keywords
bids.
Special bonuses are given to accounts who spend
$100 or more. With a deposit of $100, you will be credited
with $150 in keyword bids plus two weeks free banner
advertising. With a deposit of $200, you will be credited with
$300 plus one month of free banner advertising.
What kind of banner advertising do I
get with a deposit of $100 or $200?
All advertisers that spend an
at-once deposit of $100 or $200 will be allowed to place one
banner in our banner rotation. Banners must be approved by us
first. Once approved, banners are displayed at the top of
every page at gearbyte.org, except for our main page, where
banners appear right about our directory. All sites' banners
are rotated equally and fairly, and may be mixed in with our
own advertising banners. For an at-once deposit of $100, you
will receive 14 days in our banner rotation. For an at-once
deposit of $200, you will receive 31 days in our banner
rotation.
Affiliates
Who can become a gearbyte.org
affiliate?
Anyone
is allowed to become an affiliate as long as their site(s) do
not contain anything related to warez, porn, hate, or
piracy.
Do I need to deposit money into my account to
become an affiliate?
No, you don't. If you would like to only become
an affiliate, just sign up for a free account and visit our
affiliate section. No deposits are required to become an
affiliate.
What types of affiliate programs do you offer and
how much do they pay?
We offer a pay-per-search program which will
automatically deposit $.04 into your gearbyte.org account for
every daily unique search made by a surfer from your site. A
daily unique search is defined as a search made from one
unique IP address each day. All you have to do is place our
cut-and-paste code in your HTML and get it up on the
web.
How do you pay your
affiliates?
To
simplify the payment process, all affiliates are paid straight
into their gearbyte.org account. In the future, we may start
sending actual checks in the mail, but for now we are sticking
with our automatic crediting.
What happens if I am caught cheating
or spamming?
If
we find out you are artificially sending searches or using any
method that is not acceptable to send searches(e.g. spam), you
will first be notified and warned of your actions. If we keep
getting complains or suspect you are still cheating, your
account will be immediately terminated, and we may contact the
proper authorities.
