GPT Crediting Guide

As anyone with GPT experience knows, offers will never credit 100% of the time. In this post I want to show you some tips that can raise a 30% credit rate to a 75-80% approval rate.

Before I give the tips, it is important to understand how the GPT crediting process works.

First off, when you click the link from the GPT site, you are bounced around the internet before you are put down at the offer web page. While you browse the web, especially on GPT "surveys", websites put "cookies", or files with small amounts of tracking information, on your computer. As you complete the offer, there will be what is known as a tracking pixel. You can almost never see this pixel, but it will show up somewhere towards the end of a survey. It will look for the cookies placed by the offer. When and if it finds them, it will look at the data in the cookie to determine if you are eligible to receive credit. If it thinks that you are, it will send a credit message. If not, it will decline.

Now, here are the tips:

1) Clear the cookies! Clear, Clear, Clear.

You must clear your cookies between offers in the same survey family. Ever wonder why most surveys have one of 4 or 5 different looks? It is because many surveys are run by the same people. If they see a cookie that tells them that they gave you credit for an offer before, they will deny your request for credit now. Also, you must never clear your cookies while completing an offer.

2) Hold on to your horses!

Nothing screams deny me credit like completing 10 offers from the same company at the same time. Even if they are from different companies, don't bog down the servers by completing more than a few offers at once. You can always wait 10-15 minutes and do some more.

3) Don't be too forward with any given individual!

I know that you may have totally fallen for Brandarama, or that you have a crush on My Insider Deals, but try to vary the offers that you complete. Don't do to many from the same survey company at once. You can go back to your love in good time, but don't let them feel harassed.

4) Newcomers get special treatment.

It is important to never use the same email address for any two similar offers, EVER! A good bit of what these companies are paying is for the email address. They will not pay you if you use the same one twice. Keep making new disposable email addresses for each similar offer.

4) That amazing "Gmail dot trick" doesn't work anymore... get used to it.

You used to be able to take a gmail address and put dots in it so that you could make an infinate number of email address that all forward to the same place. Those days are over, and the places where that will work are few and far between. On a similar note, do NOT use "bugmenot" emails or any other similar bulk email service. You will not be credited if you do this. Use fresh new emails.

5) One thing at a time.

Never try to complete two GPT offers simultaneously. The cookies will interfere with each other and you will get neither offer to credit. Also try to avoid loading many web pages in the background in case the cookies conflict.

and finally...

6) Let the pages fully load. The tracking pixel may be the last line of code on a page. If you press next before everything loads, it will never see your cookie and give you credit.

7) Email and Zip submit my ass!

Even if the offer is an "email submit" or a "zip submit", the tracking pixel is not always where it should be. This is especially try of email submit offers. On an email submit offer, I usually answer the second page too.

8)Confirm!

Although I have no empirical evidence that this matters, it has helped me. Once you have finished an offer, close out of it. Open the email that you used for the offer and wait for a confirmation from the offer. Once you get the confirmation, open it and confirm. Remember, if you are using Gmail to tell it to display the images in the email (one may be the tracking pixel). Once yuo hav econfirmed, then ask the GPT site for credit.

9) Settings make the world go round!

I recomend mozilla Firefox for GPT offers. Others will say to use Internet Explorer, but because it is in beta all too often, it is not always supported. Which ever browser you choose, make sure that it i set to accept cookies and not block popups.

That is all for now folks, but I will be back with more soon.