The HBF PPC Freebie Database

Company Name $ Bonus Min Bid Clickthrus
Search Post $ 550.00 $0.01 55000
End Find $ 100.00 $0.01 10000
Surf The Web $ 75.00 $0.01 7500
LinkAThon $ 50.00 $0.01 5000
Meteor Surf $ 25.00 $0.01 2500
Search Mega $ 25.00 $0.01 2500
Seek Hawk $ 25.00 $0.01 2500
Seekster $ 25.00 $0.01 2500
Sci Seek $ 24.00 $0.01 2400
E Search Zone $ 10.00 $0.01 1000
Free Explore $ 10.00 $0.01 1000
Jiffy Seek $ 10.00 $0.01 1000
Kwick Search $ 10.00 $0.01 1000
Link Assist $ 10.00 $0.01 1000
Search Raider $ 10.00 $0.01 1000
Spider Jump $ 10.00 $0.01 1000
The Best Find $ 10.00 $0.01 1000
Harry Knows $ 25.00 $0.05 500
Meg Peg $ 5.00 $0.01 500
Search it Fast $ 5.00 $0.01 500
Alternative Search Engine $ 10.00 $0.03 333
Leap Surf $ 5.00 $0.02 250
MegaCrawl $ 2.00 $0.01 200
Find Big $ 2.00 $0.01 200
The Dallas Explorer $ 10.00 $0.05 200
DWI Page Inc. $ 1.00 $0.005 200
Mammoth Search $ 10.00 $0.10 100
Search Pros $ 1.00 $0.01 100
$ 1,040.00 100,983
As you can see there are quite a few of these dinos still running... For every one
giving away a freebie like this, there are easily 2 others that don’t!
I doubt that some of those very generous listings at the top, such as
SearchPost’s $550, will last forever, so at least sign up for your account and grab
your bonuses before they change their policies.
It should go without saying that the faster you want your traffic to arrive,
(accomplished with higher bidding) the fewer of those 100,983 visitors you will
ever see. That’s just how PPC works. But don’t worry about having to pay too
much for your highly competitive keywords, these guys don’t seem to compete
on the same market with Google and Yahoo at all, so getting a couple of targeted
clicks a day from this list should be expected even at the minimum bid!
(Well, perhaps not for gambling, porn, viagra, or life insurance niches…)
The numbers in this chart were compiled by hand by on New Years Eve 2006,
and updated again in June 2007, but since this is a free-floating document, I
have no control over when you receive this file or when these search engines
change their policies. Any updates to this chart will have to be made on the
referring page of my website.
Drawbacks?
Well, you will have to put in a lot of keywords to get any steady traffic out of it. My
home business niche has the very most heavily competed set of keywords there,
so I opted to spend 1 cent across the board for each of 80 keywords related to
Home Business. My results have been a steady trickle, as I usually come up in
any search result as #2 to #4… So my website will ultimately receive 10-50
visitors a day from this source.
But that’s not using very many keywords for my niche; I just haven’t had time to
go find them all. Once I do I should be able to get 10 times than many daily
visitors from these free sources.