Tips, Tricks & Info

How to get referrals

Below are listed the most commen ways to get referrals, listed by the most profitable to the less:

a) Exchanging registrations - register under someone on a PTC that he/she has registered, while the same person registers under you at a PTC you are registered at;
b) Advertising - advertise your referral link anywhere online you see fit and are allowed to (forums, advertising on PTC websites, free classified ad websites, creating a blog and publicizing it - will let you publicize all your referral links at once -, traffic exchange websites, social websites, emailing your friends...). Your referral link can be found in the 'member' area of a PTC, and has a similar format to: http://www.ptcwebsite.com/id=yournickname.
c) Purchasing - purchase referrals on the PTC you're registered at.

Note that purchasing referrals has it's downsides as you might end up spending money on referrals that stop clicking after a short while. Another thing worth mentioning is that most PTC websites that allow you to purchase referral packages are likely Ponzi Schemes (see 'Scam PTCs' below)

Unsustainable PTC Websites

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 example ahead for clarification.

Say i want an 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 the PTC website pays it's users 1 cent or more per ad view it is not making a profit, and is unsustainable.

Scam PTCs [Ponzi Schemes]

Scam PTC websites usually:

a) show tens of high valued, self-sponsored ads - these ads are not bought by advertisers, but instead are put up by the PTC itself;
b) have high referral commissions;
c) have thousands of users register in a short amount of time.

You can spot a self-sponsered ad if it a) shows repeatedly on the ad page, b) advertises a giant company like Nike (Nike reaches millions of people through T.V. They just don't need an extra couple thousand to sell their product). I risk advising you to think with a little logic when looking at ads at a new PTC; some ads simply make no sense in being paid to be shown; for example, a www.google.com ad..

When a PTC website advertises self-sponsered ads only, it is a sign that it has no real advertisers and isn't making a profit, therefore cannot possibly afford making payments. If payments continue being made after a couple of weeks the website is a probable Ponzi Scheme; it makes payments using money received from it's members' investments (referral purchases and membership upgrades) and will only make payments as long as it's users invest in it.

Although payments are made in Ponzi Schemes, the amount of money that the website's users make is always higher that the amount of money the PTC makes with investments, so Ponzi Schemes are always a definite fail only depending on how long users continue investing in it.

Quick Tips

Read about a PTC before you invest
Join PTC forums or use a search engine to read about other people experiences with the website to gather information. You might find quick results searching for the combination "[ptc website name] scam".

Investing in PTCs
When purchasing referrals - especially on new PTC websites-, wait until you get your money back, on your first investment. Shortly after you will make nothing but profit.

Too Good To Be True
Roughly calculate your potencial earnings when using a website that offers you easy money. Because "If it's that easy to make alot of money, with the less amount of effort possible, why would anybody even have a day job?"

Payment Proof Images

Seeing payment proofs for a new PTC website does not guarantee that the PTC is not a scam. If you see an unsustainable PTC with payment proofs, it's most probably a scam.

Scam websites usually issue a few payment proofs when it launches in order to gain people's trust.

Facts:

a) some users join new PTC websites and immediately invest in referrals and premium memberships. This helps them reach payout very quickly and post payment proofs.

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

Passwords & PTC Websites

Try and avoid using the same password when registering on each PTC website you register at (it is even not a good idea to use passwords you use for other things like your email account, forum or gaming accounts).

PTC websites can be created by anyone, and we have seen that some PTC websites are scams.

The PTC'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 hack your account.

Create passwords composed of random digits, symbols and letters and let your browser store them.

$1 per Email from Paid To Read Websites

Websites that offer you $1, $10 or more per email will not pay you, ever. PTR websites are just like PTC websites except they send you an email with the ad, and there's nothing to justify advertisers spending more money on PTR websites.