Pay-to-Click Web Sites: Are They Worth Getting Into?
One of the popular Web marketing crazes that right now appeals to many novices is to begin with Pay-to-Click Sites (PTC). That's precisely what I set out to do. However, before I continue, in case you are not aware as to how these websites work, allow me to expound. A Pay-to-Click site pays you a little cash for merely watching a short advert, usually lasting around 30 seconds or so. Each time you watch a whole advertisement (they ordinarily last approximately 30 seconds), a tiny amount of cash is deposited into your account, which can only be taken out when you've accumulated a defined total, usually in the range. Likewise, almost all of these websites have a bit more to them, like special options provided only to members, and referral rewards. Whether you gain your referrals yourself or pay for them, when those referrals view ads, you receive around 50% what they gget. Thus, if you are paid a penny.01 from watching an ad, you'll get half a penny.005.005 from the people you refer to the program. It may not seem that lucrative, but visualize if you had thousands of referrals working for you. There are also special membership options that allow you to obtain more referrals, more ads and more money for every click (often for both your own clicks and your referrals' clicks). Even if you could make a bit more cash with one of the enhanced plans, they generally cost a a lot up front, so be cautious. To illustrate how this works, let's suppose you sign up with a PTC that displays up to f ads. You then obtain a thousand folks to sign up under you as referrals. And let's suppose that both you and your referrals make one penny a click. So if you view all four adverts and all of your referrals watch all four advertisements, that's a total of forty bucks. You would concur, that doesn't appear too bad. Forty dollars daily can come in handy. But hold on a minute! It just so happens that virtually all PTC sites are up to no good. Think "pyramid schemes", for that's what actually all of them are. They are known as "pyramids" because just the folks at or close to the top make any cash, while those lower the pyramid ordinarily end up getting nothing. Look at it this way: If 10 folks put in ten bucks, that's a total of a hundred bucks. The top person may return 15 bucks to four people and keep the remainder for himself, with nothing disbursed to all the rest of the members. How they can get away with this is through enticing us to sign up as members and to buy referrals (which, by the way, are usually bots, not actual people), then paying out cash that other people invest to pay for their own membership and subsequent referrals. The money earned by viewing ads in no way covers their expenditures, particularly when many of the so-called "referrals" are nothing but bots. Eventually, people will stop investing in the PTC website and the last individuals to invest won't see their money again. If you're among the first people, you may make some money but it isn't worth it. My advice is that you avoid PTC web sites like the plague. You might earn a minimal amount of money or not, based on how high and close to the head schemer you are, but he's a defrauder and everybody else you referred is losing money. It's just not a pleasant place to be.