What You Should Know About Paid To Click Sites

The goal of this blog is to help people make the best choices when looking for the best ptc site. I have made a conscious decision to make this a "best paid to click" type of article not a "scam list" because I feel that the word scam is largely misused and overused. For the scam list, go down to the next article! A PTC site that fails and closes doesn't always mean it's a scam. It could just be an honest admin that failed at his or her business venture. Also at scam list sites, many posts are false or partially false and in many cases, people falsely post scam complaints of "rival ptc sites" just to damage their competition. So Instead of throwing a lot of mud, I will just list a few sites where I've had a bad experience and focus mostly on making this a "best ptc list" type of site. Many paid to click sites are honest ptc sites but there are some bad things to watch out for. Can you trust paid to click? The best paid to click programs are run well by honest administrators. These are the ones you want and I will show you what to look for, and how to spot the best sites where you will make the most money. Although these sites only pay you a penny or less for each click, they also pay you for clicks made by your direct referrals and when done properly this money adds up fast. Read on and I will show you how best to make money with PTC sites.
Paid To Click: How Does It Work?
Why would they pay you to watch ads?
Good PTC sites are probably the best, simplest moneymaking websites on the internet and best of all they are legal and Paypal approved. Advertisers need low cost advertising and they are willing to pay for the visitors. [CAUTION: do not advertise sites that contain Google Adsense ads as this is a violation of Adsense Terms!Some advertisers pay as much as $4.00 per click in google adwords! But the PTC sites charge much much less, about a penny per click or less! It is a good alternative to google if you have the kind of offer the penny clickers are looking for.

Here's how it works:

Advertisers pay the PTC site for visitors

free members get paid to visit their sites through the PTC site surf page.

Most PTC sites typically accept Paypal or egold from their advertisers but some sites also accept others.
*New: Paypal has begun freezing accounts of some PTC's calling them Ponzi because many of them were.*

That's the basics of it. Read on to learn how you can end up making extra money every month from these free to join websites.
High Paying PTC's Or Low Paying Ones Which Is Better?
The answer is not as obvious as you may think
There are two basic types of paid to click programs. High paying PTC: Those who pay you one cent or higher for each click. These have caused Paypal to freeze the accounts of a few PTC owners. No reason was given but I believe Paypal suspected the high paying sites were operating as ponzi. (using only new money to payout old pay requests hence the long wait for payouts) so you might want to stay away from the high paying ones if you use Paypal. However many sites are accepting Alertpay.
The lower paying ones typically pay a half cent per click or less.
These sites pay faster because they dont need to wait for new money to come in. They pay immediately from advertisers money. It is unclear at the moment if Paypal is going to just take action against certain sites disallow PTC's all together. Stay tuned and check back here often. I'll post any info I find out ion this currently unfolding situation.
Which Sites Should I Trust?
Some indicators of good and bad PTC sites
The single most important thing to consider when choosing a PTC site is reliability. Will the site still be there next month? Many small startup sites disappear suddenly without warning. The site is simply gone and you have no recourse. One good sign, is if you see the owners contact info plainly listed on the site in a easy to find place. Another good sign is a quick response from the admin if you send an email. At a good ptc site the admin will respond within 48 hours. Does the site have it's own user forum? If so, register there FIRST and see what the members are saying. Also you need to look at how old the site is and how many members they have. You can find out when the websites url was created by doing a search at whois.net. This will usually tell you how long the site has been online, and sometimes the owners name and contact info will show in the search because they did not pay extra to hide their info. As for how many members they have, most sites list their member stats right on their home page and if you cannot find this information anywhere on the site, then I recommend you forget that site.
If the site has, say 1000 members, then It has not been around long. A safer bet is join one that has over 5000 members.
Another common problem these sites have is something that happens when the site gets too big. Once the site reaches around 500,000 members the admins sometimes start having trouble getting all their daily payouts done. Then people get nervous because they are waiting for over a month for their payout request or their referral purchase. Then come the accusations of operating as a ponzi (Deliberately waiting to payout old payout requests until "new money" enters the system from new sales, rather than getting that money straight from the advertisers in real time)And nervous people stop spending money, which causes the program to come to a standstill. Look for programs with over 5000 members but less than 250,000 members for best results. It is possible to find a PTC with more than 250,000 that is run well though, just watch their forum for disgruntled members. Be carefully spending lots of money right after joining a program. Spend a small amount first and watch the site perform for you to make sure the admin is running things right. Then if the math is working out spend a bit more but always be mindful that anything can happen when you just joined and have not yet established a track record with that site.
How To Make Referrals Turn Pennies Into Dollars
Maximizing profits with PTC programs
The key to making more significant amounts of money in PTC's is to get referrals and lots of them. These are people who join from your referral link at the PTC you are in.
But what's the best way to go about recruiting these referrals? You can use an excellent free service called GetRef.com or you can start a blog, create a free Squidoo site or something like that! I recommend you do all of them. There are lots of PTC's out there and many of them offer very low advertising rates. You can buy a thousand visitors for as little as two dollars at some sites and the people who are clicking are looking for more PTC's to join because the more sites they click in, the more they can make every day. It is not very hard to get signups into these free programs and many of them simply offer to sell you the referrals and save you the time and effort of recruiting them yourself. In some cases this is more economical than recruiting them yourself, depending on the price they charge for the referrals but stick with me a minute and I will show you how to recruit them yourself for fifty to sixty cents a piece.
PTC sites usually charge around a dollar per referral in packages of five all the way up to 500 members.
If you buy 500 referrals for a cost of $500, most people report making between $1.50 and $3.00 per day. At $1.50 per day, that's $50 per month and you recover your investment in ten months or less and after thats over with, your monthly earnings are all profit for as long as your referrals keep clicking. If it is a good site with lots of ads it can be a great investment. I've talked to people who are bringing in $50 per day using Paid To Click sites! However, recently Paypal has stopped allowing some of the higher paying sites to use their services. They have frozen several accounts that they had previously allowed to operate for quite some time. (That way Paypal makes alot of money first before they "notice" the PTC sites activities). So most sites are switching over to AlertPay. It is a good processor and will suit the PTC industry better in the long run anyway.
Should I Buy Referrals From My Favorite PTC?
Purchased Referrals: The Best Shell Game In Town!
First let me just say that purchased referrals are good referrals, as good as any other. This is because of how they get them.
Website owners run special scripts that keep track of referrals that you and I bring in. The old standard method was to automatically install a cookie on your machine when you visit their website xyzMLM.com. Then, assuming the cookie does not get deleted, if you ever visit a DIFFERENT persons affiliate page for xyzMLM, and decide to JOIN it, that cookie would still put you in the downline of the FIRST affiliate ID that you found on the net.
This also kept you as the owner of this recruit if they decide to click all around the website before actually joining it.
But guess what? With most paid to click scripts this is not the case and if they click all over the website before they click the join button they usually end up joining with no sponsor.
This works out great for the PTC. They get 50 or 100 without sponsor sign ups per day, and then they SELL THEM to the members for a buck a piece! In some cases the referral you buy might have been brought in by YOU in the first place!
So if the site has referrals for sale that means there are some steps you need to take to make sure the referrals you bring in all go in YOUR down line.
First, logout of the PTC. Now go to you own referral link as if you were joining it and click on the "join" or "register" button. When that page loads, copy the URL from your browser and include the HTTP:// and make sure you see your nickname or affiliate ID number at the end of the URL. (If it is not, then this method wont work at that site)
If it ends with your user name of affiliate ID this url should take them straight to the signup form page and you cannot lose the referral if they choose to fill in that page. The downside is that there is no "sales pitch" on that page just text boxes so you should first send the traffic to a splash page of your own that has a link that points to your signup form page.
The other alternative is to just buy the referrals and do not spend money recruiting. This will guarantee they are your people but it is a choice of cost. Can you recruit them yourself cheaper? If you are skilled it is possible. I use the splash page pointing at the sign up form method and my referrals are costing me around fifty cents a piece this way. I got 19 sign ups for a $10 ad I placed in bux.to just the other day which took about 24 hours to complete. So there ya go, that's my take on it all now get out there and drum up some recruits!
PTC Site Reviews: My Top Picks
Here are some sites I've tested and my experiences with them

AdBux always has plenty of ads to click and also has very good customer support that gives quick replies and fast payouts. A very reliable well run site. They pay less than some but make up for it with lower ad prices and many excellent features.Visit it by clicking here!

Hits4pay is also a great one! It pays well and sends you just the right amount of ads! Plus, they give $10 sign up bonus! Click here to visit it! The most trustworthy PTC site!

Donkeymails (despite of the name) IS A PRETTY GOOD SITE. It is very trustworthy, like hits4pay. Click here to visit!

Daddybux is an ok one, although it usually has less ads than some others, very honest.

Another widely used one is Bux. It pays you 100% of your referral's earnings! It is probably the most trusted, but can sometimes take a while to pay!

Paid.vg is emerging as a pretty nice site. If anyone can challenge bux.to, this is definitely it!



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Sites That I Did Not Like
I do not recommend these sites
Buxa.in:
This site has a forum full of unhappy campers for several reasons. They've been a bit unreliable with server security problems and poor management allegations.
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GP2Profits:
Admin wont answer (ever), he's removed Paypal from the withdrawal request page with no explaination.
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DrBux: Same owner as GP2profits.
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DonkeyMails:
This site lies! When they say an ad is worth 1 cent, it actually is worth 0.001!

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