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How to get referrals Below are listed the most common ways to get referrals, listed by the most profitable to the less: a) Exchanging registrations - register under someone on a PTC that he/she has registered, while the same person registers under you at a PTC you are registered at - called Referral Exchange; b) Advertising - advertise your referral link anywhere online you see fit and are allowed to (forums, advertising on PTC websites, free classified ad websites, creating a blog and publicizing it - will let you publicize all your referral links at once -, traffic exchange websites, social websites, emailing your friends...). Your referral link can be found in the 'member' area of a PTC, and has a similar format to: http://www.ptcwebsite.com/id=yournickname. c) Purchasing - purchase referrals on the PTC you're registered at. Genuine PTC websites usually don't allow referrals to be sold directly, but offered when you purchase an advertisment pack, or other situations. Read each PTC to find out more. Note that purchasing referrals on websites that don't allow you to contact your referrlas has it's downsides as you might end up spending money on referrals that stop clicking after a short while, mostly because they don't like that particular PTC. You are then not able to contact them with a referral exchange on another website instead.
Unsustainable PTC Websites Unsustainable websites cannot afford to maintain themselves online, as websites need to pay for multiple things in order to stay online, including their domain name and the enormous traffic it generates; An unsustainable site is likely to: a) close down after a few days and not pay any of it's members; b) turn into a scam website - see 'Scam PTCs' below. To see if a website is sustainable you should check their advertising rates and their pay-per-ad-view rates on their "advertisment purchases" section - view the following example for mathmatical clarification! Say i want my ad to be viewed 1000 times. Let's say the website's advertising rate is $10 for 1000 visits. $10 = 1000 cents. 1000 cents (devided by) 1000 times my ad is to be viewed (equals) 1c per ad view. 1 cent per ad is the pay rate. From the moment that this PTC website pays it's users 1 cent or more per ad view it is not making a profit, and is unsustainable.
Scam PTCs Scam PTC websites usually: a) show tens of high valued, self-sponsored ads - see 'Self-Sponsered Ads' below; b) have high referral commissions; c) have thousands of users register in a short amount of time; d) take a long time to process your payment, usually more time than stated of their Terms of Service page; e) have referrals with weird nicknames, like 5453ytt5435; f) may hide your purchased referrals' details; g) are unsustainable.
Self-Sponsered Ads Self-sponsered ads are ads which where not bought by advertisers, but instead are put up by the PTC itself to create content. While most PTC websites have one or two self-sponsered ads set up so not to have an empty ad page, scam websites will fill up their ad page with nothing but self-sponsered ads, creating alot of content and aluring users. You can spot a self-sponsered ad if it a) shows repeatedly on the ad page, on the same day; b) advertises a giant company like Nike (Nike reaches billions of people through T.V. They don't need to advertise to a couple of thousand with PTC); c) it directs you to another PTC or website that also has affiliate links, while the URL contains no referral link. I risk advising you to think with a little logic when looking at ads at a PTC website. Some ads simply make no sense in being paid to be shown; for example, a www.google.com ad. When a PTC website only advertises self-sponsered ads, it is a definite sign of a scam as it has no real advertisers and therefore isn't making a profit. This kind of website is called a Ponzi Scheme - see 'Wikipedia Article on Ponzi Schemes' on 5. Note: Although payments are made with Ponzi Schemes, the amount of money that the website's users make is always higher that the amount of money the PTC has from investments, so Ponzi Schemes are always a definite fail, only depending on how long users continue to invest in it.
Quick Tips Read about a PTC before you invest: a) join PTC forums and ask around; b) use a search engine to read about other people's experiences with the website. You will find results searching for the combination 'ptc website name + scam'. Investing in PTCs: a) when purchasing referrals - especially on new PTC websites-, wait until you get your money back on your first investment. Shortly after you will make nothing but profit. Earnings: a) roughly calculate the potencial earnings promissed by a website, especially if a website offers you alot of easy money. Because "If it's that easy to make alot of money very quickly, and with the less amount of effort, why would anybody need to have a day job?"
Payment Proof Images Seeing payment proofs for a new PTC website does not guarantee that it is not a scam. If you see a new, unsustainable PTC with self-sponsered ads that has payment proofs, it's most likely a scam website. These websites usually issue a few payment proofs as soon as it launches in order to gain people's trust. Other facts: a) some users join new PTC websites very soon and immediately invest heavily in referrals and premium memberships. This helps them reach payout very quickly, and post payment proofs. b) a fake payment proof image can easily be created using Paintbrush.
Passwords & PTC Websites Try avoiding using the same password when registering on multiple PTC websites - it is not a good idea to use the same passwords you use for other things like your email account, forum or gaming accounts. PTC websites (and alot of 'earn money' websites) can be created by anyone, and we have seen that some PTC websites might be scam websites - the PTC website's administrator will have access to your login details and can cross test them with other sites he/she knows you've registered at and access your account. Instead, you can create passwords composed of random digits, symbols and letters and let your browser store them.
'$1 per Email' Websites Websites that offer you $1, $10 or more per email will not pay you, ever. Just think like this: if you read 10 emails a day worth $1 each, from 10 different websites, you would be earning $100 a day. Per month, $3000. Like i said before, if it was that easy to make alot of money very fast, anybody could quit their job and live off 'paid to click' earnings.
'Make Your Money Back!' Websites that tell you something like "make your money back in 5 days" are scam websites. These websites wait for people to invest money with them by purchasing stuff from the website. When the site receives enough money to make payments, they will pay their members who invested earlier. Then people that receive these payments invest again. And payments are made to other members. And so on. When people stop investing in such a website, payouts will stop coming out and the website closes. This business model is called a Ponzi Scheme - see 'Wikipedia Article on Ponzi Schemes' on 5.
Terms of Service Terms of service is like the contract that you agree to when you join a PTC website. Be sure to read each PTC's Terms of Service page before using the PTC (or any other website for that matter) so you know how the PTC works in detail. This may help you avoid being scammed, as scam websites usually don't follow their own contract.
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