One of the popular Web marketing fads that presently pulls in many beginners is to start with Pay-to-Click Sites (PTC). I am among those individuals.
However, before I go on, in the event that you don’t have a clue as to how these web sites work, allow me to explain further. A Pay-to-Click site is a website where you are paid some money for clicking on and watching an advertisement for a determined amount of time (ordinarily half a minute). After you’ve watched the advert you are compensated the small amount of cash into your account balance and you have to then accumulate it into a certain amount, such as $5, before you will be able to withdraw it. There are several other aspects to Pay-to-Click websites, such as referrals and special membership choices.
Whether you gain your referrals yourself or buy them, when those people view advertisements, you receive more or less 50% what they gget.
In short, if you get paid $0.01 for watching an advertisement, you’ll as well get another half cent whenever each of the people who signed up under you does the same.
It doesn’t sound like a lot of money but it can amount to something if you get thousands of referrals. A lot of these Pay-to-Click programs also have a number of special options to their members, allowing for more money per click (usually for your referrals as well as yourself), additional ads and additional referrals. These additional membership features tend to be costly, but many will allow you to earn more cash over time.
To show you how this works, let’s suppose you sign up with a PTC program that displays up to four advertisements. You become a member and go out and recruit a thousand new members.
Each of your own clicks makes you a cent and so does every one of your referrals’ clicks.
That’s $40, if you and all your referrals click on all 4 advertisements. Doesn’t appear very shabby, right?
That would be a good amount to generate each day, right?
The truth is, nearly all Pay-to-Click programs are nothing but frauds.
The truth is, nearly all Pay-to-Click programs are nothing but frauds.
Pay-to-Click programs are basically pyramid schemes. Why “pyramid”? The reason is if you aren’t among the first handful of folks to get into the pyramid, your odds of actually making any money at all are extremely low, approaching zero.
Thus, if 10 people invest $10 each, that’s a total of a hundred bucks. The person running the scheme may return $15 to four people and retain the remainder for himself, with nothing disbursed to all the rest of the members.
How they can get away with this is by getting people to sign up as members and to purchase referrals (which, by the way, are usually bots, not actual people), then paying out cash that others invest to pay for their own membership and subsequent referrals. The cash from ads does not cover their payouts, particularly since lots of the referrals you can purchase are not humans. Shortly, people quit signing up, and the later folks are hung out to dry.
If you are one of the ones at the top, in from the start, there’s a good chance of making a little cash, but it is not balanced by the risks.
I advise you stay away from pay to click websites. The only way you can generate even a tiny amount of cash is to be the head scammer or one of his buddies. All other people who sign up turns a loss. I don’t care for the odds . . . or the karma.
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