One of the popular Web marketing crazes that presently appeals to a lot of newbie’s is to start with Pay-to-Click Sites (PTC). I am among those people. To start, allow me to elaborate on what Pay-to-Click sites are. With a pay to click (PTC) site, you are remunerated just to view 30-second (or so) advertisements. When you’ve seen the ad you are paid the small amount of cash into your account balance and you must then amass it into a certain amount, such as $5, before you can withdraw it. There are many other facets to PTC sites, such as referrals and special membership alternatives.
Whether you amass your referrals yourself or pay for them, when those referrals view advertisements, you receive approximately one-half of the money they get. Thus, if whenever you view an advertisement you make once cent, you’ll take in one half of a penny whenever one of the people you referred does the same. It may not look that lucrative, but imagine if you had hundreds and hundreds of referrals working for you. There are also special membership options that allow you to generate more referrals, more ads and more money for each click (often for both your own clicks and your referrals’ clicks). An enhanced membership usually comes in at a high price but in the long run, you would generate more money with it.
To show you how this works, we’ll say you sign up with a PTC that shows up to four ads. You become a member and manage to recruit 1,000 people. Every one of your own clicks makes you $0.01 and so does every one of your referrals’ clicks. That’s $40, if you and all your referrals view all four advertisements. Doesn’t seem too shabby, right? That would be a decent sum of money to generate per day, doesn’t it?
But hold it! The reality is that most Pay-to-Click programs are frauds. Think “pyramid schemes”, for that’s essentially all of them are. A pyramid scheme is where folks invest cash looking for more cash in return after some time, but the guy in charge just disburses more cash to a few of the members and the other people are left with nothing, or very little. Consider this: If ten folks invest ten bucks, that sums up to a hundred bucks. The person running the scheme may return 15 bucks to four people and retain the remainder for himself, with nothing going out to all the rest of the members. How they are able to get away with this is through getting people to join as members and to purchase referrals (which, by the way, are usually bots, not actual people), then paying us cash that other folks invest to pay for their own membership and later referrals. The cash from adverts does not cover their payout’s, especially since lots of the referrals you can buy are bots. Inescapably, they run out of potential members and people stop investing, leaving folks who weren’t among the first to join not getting paid at all. If you started the plan, or were fortunate enough to get in right near the top, you can maybe make a little profit, but is it worth the risk? No.
I advise you stay away from PTC sites. The only way you will be able to earn even a tiny amount of money is to be the head scammer or one of his buddies. All other people who join turns a loss. I not keen about the odds . . . or the karma.