PTC stands for 'Paid To Click' and is a term used to classify websites that pay you to view online advertisements.

Registering at PTC websites is 100% free. All you need is an email address, and an e-commerce account - which is also free. (see 'Payment Processors' below).

Values for each advertisement you view widely range, from hundreds of a cent ($0.0001) to a couple of cents ($0.05 - in rare occasions) each, and depend on the PTC you register at.

 

The most common ad values range from a tenth of a cent ($0.001) to half a cent ($0.005) per ad.

 

Although low, your earnings can increase drastically by inviting people to register at the same PTC you are registered. Once someone joins a PTC under your invitation, you will also start earning a commission based on their own earnings - aka 'affiliate marketing'. (see 'How to get referrals' in the next section)

 

Another way to increase earnings includes upgrading your free membership. Payed memberships boost ads views and referral comissions.

 

Another way of earning more is joining multiple PTC websites.

PTC websites earn money by selling visits to an ad, to advertisers. An advertiser that wants to advertise a service or a product pays the PTC to show his ad to us registered users. The PTC then pays us users to view the advertiser's ad. A small percentage is retained by the PTC to pay for maintenace (domain name, traffic, and other techincal requirements) and profit.

 

Paying people to view ads is a win win situation as advertisers get alot of people looking at their products in a short amount of time, and we users can make money just by looking at ads.

After registering at a PTC, navigate to the advertisement section and click on a link (ad). You are then taken to a new web page containing the advertisement and a small timer. Viewing the advertisement until the timer runs out earns you the value of that ad.

 

Only after earning a minimum amount of money can you request a payment (see 'Payment Requests' below)

To be able to receive a payment from a PTC you must have an account at an e-commerce website (see 'Payment Processors' below). Each PTC uses it's e-commerce website of choice, so you have to register at whatever e-commerce website the PTC works with to get paid.

 

The minimum amount of cash earned before requesting a payment range between just a couple of cents to a few dollars, depending on the PTC.

 

After requesting a payment, your earnings will be transfered to your e-commerce account after a certain amount of time. Depending on the PTC, payment are:

 

a) Instant - your payment arrives a few seconds after you requested it;
b) Delayed - your payment arrives within the time frame that the PTC has stated in it's Terms Of Service ("TOS" link on each PTC website).

 

From your e-commerce account you can either transfer your funds to your regular bank account (limits are imposed to certain countries, so read the e-commerce website TOS and see if you country is available to receive payments, before your start earning money), or you can use your money for online shopping.

Payment Processors are virtual online banks. They allow you to have an online bank account, from where you can send and receive money, pay for multiple services and shop online.

 

Although free to join, registration in restricted to age and country, so check each e-commerce's website before trying to use them.

 

Notice also that some transactions/payments carry a low fee.

 

 

Common Payment Processors used by PTC websites

 

 

 

 

 

Below are listed the most commen 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;
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.

 

Note that purchasing referrals has it's downsides as you might end up spending money on referrals that stop clicking after a short while. Another thing worth mentioning is that most PTC websites that allow you to purchase referral packages are likely Ponzi Schemes (see 'Scam PTCs' below)

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 example ahead for clarification.

 

Say i want an 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 the PTC website pays it's users 1 cent or more per ad view it is not making a profit, and is unsustainable.

Scam PTC websites usually:

 

a) show tens of high valued, self-sponsored ads - these ads are not bought by advertisers, but instead are put up by the PTC itself;
b) have high referral commissions;
c) have thousands of users register in a short amount of time.

 

You can spot a self-sponsered ad if it a) shows repeatedly on the ad page, b) advertises a giant company like Nike (Nike reaches millions of people through T.V. They just don't need an extra couple thousand to sell their product). I risk advising you to think with a little logic when looking at ads at a new PTC; some ads simply make no sense in being paid to be shown; for example, a www.google.com ad..

 

When a PTC website advertises self-sponsered ads only, it is a sign that it has no real advertisers and isn't making a profit, therefore cannot possibly afford making payments. If payments continue being made after a couple of weeks the website is a probable Ponzi Scheme; it makes payments using money received from it's members' investments (referral purchases and membership upgrades) and will only make payments as long as it's users invest in it.

 

Although payments are made in Ponzi Schemes, the amount of money that the website's users make is always higher that the amount of money the PTC makes with investments, so Ponzi Schemes are always a definite fail only depending on how long users continue investing in it.

Read about a PTC before you invest
Join PTC forums or use a search engine to read about other people experiences with the website. You might find quick results searching for the combination "[ptc website name] scam" in a search engine.

 

Investing in PTCs
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.

 

Too Good To Be True
Roughly calculate your potencial earnings when using a website that offers you easy money. Because "If it's that easy to make alot of money, with the less amount of effort possible, why would anybody even have a day job?"

Seeing payment proofs for a new PTC website does not guarantee that the PTC is not a scam. If you see an unsustainable PTC with payment proofs, it's most probably a scam.

 

Scam websites usually issue a few payment proofs when it launches in order to gain people's trust.

 

Facts:

 

a) some users join new PTC websites and immediately invest 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

Try and avoid using the same password when registering on each PTC website you register at (it is even not a good idea to use passwords you use for other things like your email account, forum or gaming accounts).

 

PTC websites can be created by anyone, and we have seen that some PTC websites are scams.

 

The PTC'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 hack your account.

 

Create passwords composed of random digits, symbols and letters and let your browser store them.

Websites that offer you $1, $10 or more per email will not pay you, ever. PTR websites are just like PTC websites except they send you an email with the ad, and there's nothing to justify advertisers spending more money on PTR websites.

If you're gonna "make your money back" (say you invest $10 and after 10 day you get 200% of your investment), there's no reason you should need to invest in the first place.
This business model is called a Ponzi Scheme and is a way of scamming people out of their money..

Every single computer has an IP address assigned to it when connected to the Internet. Two or more computers connected to the Internet through one single Internet connection share the same IP address.

Paid To Read - Websites that pay you to receive and read emailed advertisements.

CPM is an abbreviation for 'cost per thousand' (where M is the roman numeral of 1000).

 

CPM is referred when using the Paid to Promote earning options and refer to the amount of money you earn for each 1000 views of your referral link.

Spamming is the abuse of an electronic messaging system, such as E-Mail, Forums, Instant Messaging services (Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger...), IRC chats, in-game chat rooms. Every public place online where you are able to reach thousands of other people.

 

A user is considered to be spamming when he or she:

 

- Sends numerous messages (commonly done by e-mail) to people they don't know, with information they did not ask to receive;

 

- Enters a forum and posts the same messages repeatedly;

 

- Posts comments that are clearly off-topic and generally advertising-like.

The price an advertiser pays for each click on his ad.

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