PTC stands for 'Paid To Click' and is a term used to classify websites that reward you for viewing online advertisements. PTC websites usually reward you with money.

GPT stands for 'Get Paid To' and is a term used to classify websites that reward you for several online activities. Such activities include taking surveys, completing offers, clicking on advertisements, playing games, searching the web. The completion of each activity yields either cash or points. Rewards for activities on GPT websites include money and prizes (such as gift certificates, coupons).

Registering at PTC and GPT websites is 100% free. All you need is an email address in order to register.

 

I advise you to create an email address just for Paid To websites. These websites usually send in a moderate amount of paid emails and you might want to keep these emails with your work/personal email separate. Plus it will help keep your primary email address more private and spam free.

Most reward websites allow you to upgrade your free membership, upon registration, to a paid, premium membership.

 

Premium memberships boost earnings, rewards and referral comissions, among other things and are specific to each website.

Rewards vary, depending on what kind of website you register, and each website practices slightly different values.

 

On PTC websites rewards are most commonly cash payments, and result from viewing advertisments. Each advertisement you view widely range from hundreds of a cent ($0.0001) to a couple of cents ($0.01, $0.02, $0.03). (view the 'Boosting Your Rewards' topic below). The most common ad values (on the selected websites posted here on Genuine PTCs.com) range from a tenth of a cent ($0.001) to one or two cents per ad.

 

On GPT websites rewards usually include cash payments and prizes, and vary more depending on the activity you participate in. These rewards are usually much higher than PTC websites and range between a few cents to several hundred dollars (both money earned or the worth of prizes).

Although some cash rewards can be relatively low, you can easily boost your earnings using affiliate comissions - which is a fancy word to describe the situation where you are earning comissions from other people's earnings. See 'Getting Referrals' on the next section.

To be able to request rewards you need to achieve a minimum amount of earnings - be it cash or points. The minimum amount of earnings are specific to each reward website. Prize rewards are usually sent to your email address (in case of digital rewards such as gift certificates), or to you postal address (in case of physical rewards such as a PlayStation or a Plasma TV).
Cash rewards are sent to your e-commerce account. See 'Payment Processors' below. Each reward website uses one or more e-commerce website to pay you so you will have to register at whatever e-commerce website the reward website works with.

 

Depending on the reward website, your rewards can take from a couple hours to a few weeks to arrive.

Payment processors are online banks. They allow you to create a virtual bank account from where you can send and receive money, pay for multiple services and shop online. Once you receive your cash reward in your e-commerce account, you can transfer your funds to your regular bank account (certain limits are imposed to certain countries, so be sure to read the e-commerce's website policy), or, you can use the money you received to shop online.

 

Although free to join, registration on these banks do have some restrictions to age and country so, again, be sure to check each e-commerce's website policies before using them. Notice also that some transactions/payments might carry a fee.

 

Below are some common payment processors used by reward websites:

 

                 

        

Not only during visiting reward websites, but in general, you should always surf the internet with an anti-virus and anti-malware programs installed on your computer. - free downloads.

 

But because reward websites advertise literally thousands of links for you to visit, having an installed 'anti-crap' program becomes even more important.

Although many reward websites are a legitimate businesses, many more of these websites are set up to cheat you out of your time and money.
Setting up a website is an easy task and many people do this just to take your money.

Before joining any rewards website there are a few things you can do in order to minimize the risk of being cheated out of your earnings - apply all the following tips, not only one or two:

 

a) Quick-examine the rewards the website promisses. If the rewards, especially cash rewards are too high in comparison with other websites, the website is most likely a scam - note that reward websites that offer prizes instead of cash will offer very good prizes such as TV's and mobile phones and playstations. Remember, reward websites will allow you to make an extra monthly income. They are not designed to make you rich overnight.

 

b) Look for a professional, well designed website. Is the website well designed, with quality graphics and is functioning correctly? Or does it have an amateur look and yields errors more often than less? Professional websites usually indicate that a large support group runs the website and will most likely be an genuine business.

 

c) Is there any sort of social activity on the website, like a forum or a facebook page link? If so, is it active, recent and spam-free? If so, are comments from other members mostly positive? Otherwise denotes a website might be a scam. Lack of a positive, high social activity generally means members are not happy with the website, usaully because it is a scam, or has turned into a scam.

 

d) Join one or more forums on reward websites and ask about a perticular reward website.

 

e) Google the rewards website you're about to join and analyze the search results for keywords like 'rewardssite.com scam'. Search engines can help you deter scam websites by providing quality reviews and experiences posted by other members, and help you decide between mixed reviews.

Before completing any paid activities, especially offers and surveys, read the rules on each rewards website regarding what you can/need do to make sure your account gets credited for completing these tasks. Reward websites are very picky about their rules.

Different reward websites might offer the same earning opportunities, be it the same offer or survey, or the same paid actions (like paid for online searching).

 

Look for the website that offers the highest paying reward for a determined opportunity.

Some free offers (usaully the highest paying ones) in reward websites require you to verify a credit card. If you do not have a credit card, try searching online for a virtual credit card website, creating one, and completing these offers.

Below are listed the most common ways to get referrals and begin earning from affiliate commissions.

 

a) Advertising - advertise your referral link anywhere online you are allowed to, without the risk of being flaged as spam: forums, paid advertising, free classifieds websites, blogging - will let you publicize all your referral links at once -, traffic exchange websites, social websites, emailing your friends, etc. Your referral link can be found in the 'member' area of a rewards website, and has a similar format to: http://www.rewardwebsite.com/id=yournickname. Another common element to advertise, along with your referral link is a proof of payment, normally a print-screen image of your credited account.

 

b) Purchasing/Renting - depending on the rewards website, whenever available, purchasing/renting referrals is another way of boosting you referral count. Note that purchased referrals might become inactive and stop clicking therefore not earn you money. Few websites will allow you to replace inactive referrals.

 

c) Exchanging registrations - register under someone on a rewards website that he/she has registered, while the same person registers under you at another rewards website you are registered at - this is called doing a 'Referral Exchange' and is done mostly in forums.

 

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 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 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.

Members usually advertise payment proofs for their rewards from a rewards website. But seeing payment proofs alone does not guarantee a website's legitimacy. For examlpe, if you see a new, unsustainable PTC with self-sponsered ads that has payment proofs, they are most likely fake and the website is most likely a scam.

 

These websites usually issue a few payment proofs as soon as they launch in order to gain people's trust and gain members.

 

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, and does not mean the website is sustainable.

 

b) a fake payment proof image can easily be created using Paintbrush.

Try avoiding using the same password when registering on multiple reward 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.

 

Reward websites can be created by anyone, and many reward websites might be scam websites - the reward 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.

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. If it was that easy to make alot of money very fast, anybody could quit their job and live off 'paid to click' earnings.

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 is like the contract that you agree to when you join a rewards website. Be sure to read each webite's Terms of Service page before using it so you know how the website works in detail. This may help you avoid being scammed, as scam websites usually don't follow their own contract.

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.

Person that is part of your downline who registered to a website using your referral link, or purchased/rented.

Group of referrals from who's earnings you earn a commission.

The person who shared his/her referral link with you and had you register under him/her to a rewards website.

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.

Terms Of Service - a sort of contract you agree to when using a website.

URL - URL is a web address, such as http://www.google.com

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.

Recently, PayPal members have reported suspicious-looking emails and fake websites. These emails are not from PayPal and responding to them may put your account at risk. Please protect your PayPal account by paying close attention to the emails you receive and the websites you visit.

 

Please use the following tips to stay safe with PayPal:

 

Safe Log In: To log in to your PayPal account or access the PayPal website, open a new web browser (e.g., Internet Explorer or Netscape) and type in the following: https://www.paypal.com

 

Greeting: Emails from PayPal will address you by your first and last name or the business name associated with your PayPal account. Fraudulent emails often include the salutation "Dear PayPal User" or "Dear PayPal Member".

 

Email Attachments: PayPal emails will never ask you to download an attachment or a software program. Attachments contained in fraudulent emails often contain viruses that may harm your computer or compromise your PayPal account.

 

Request for Personal Information: If we require information from you, we will notify you in an email and request that you enter the information only after you have safely and securely logged in to your PayPal account.

 

Often, fraudulent emails will request details such as your full name, account password, credit card number, bank account, PIN number, Social Security Number, or mother's maiden name.

 

If you think that you have received a fraudulent email (or fake website), please forward the email (or URL address) to spoof@paypal.com and then delete the email from your mailbox. Never click any links or attachments in a suspicious email.

 

To learn more about protecting your PayPal account, please review read more on PayPal.com's website.

 

extracted from PayPal.com

You can report scam websites here:

 

IC3.gov
NW3C.org

 

You most likely will not get your money back from PTC websites, but reporting a scam can be a step to getting scam websites closed.

This is what i think you should think about doing if you want to build a successful PTC website.

 

1. Create a solid user base of real users. Do this by investing and purchasing quality, interesting advertisements yourself when starting out. Even if you pay low earnings to your users per ad view, the interested users will stay. But remember, paying too low will not attract even the more interested users.
2. Don't set up 59 different memberships. Maximum two memberships. One for free users - users that don't have purchase capabilities, and another for premium users - users that have the power of purchase.
3. Referral earnings. Keep these low. Remember, you are building a website to make money for yourself. Not others. The more you pay to your users, and their referrals, the more you need to charge per ad.
4. Remember that with social websites, advertising has been made free and viral. This means that one free post on Facebook will attract endless users to your product.

 

That's about it.
Now go, and make more ClixSense alike websites.
Cheers