PTC Websites: Are They Lucrative?

Lots of people start out their online marketing journey with PTC (Pay To Click) web sites. I, myself, started just that. But before I proceed, in case you don’t have a clue as to how these sites work, allow me to explain further. With a pay to click (PTC) web site, you are remunerated just to watch 30-second (or so) advertisements. Each time you watch an advertisement, a small amount of cash is deposited to your PTC account; ordinarily, this should collect to a predetermined amount (ordinarily roughly five bucks) before you can take it out. Also, Pay-to-Click websites oftentimes offer a few additional options for people who become members, and most all provide referral bonuses.

You may round up your own referrals, or you purchase them; either way you are going to gain approximately one-half of however much they make by watching adverts themselves. Hence, if you get a cent from watching an advertisement, you’ll get half a cent.005.005.005 from the people you refer to the program. It seems like kind of a slow way to go, but think about what can happen if you have hundreds of people joining through your referral link. Sometimes you’ll be extended additional options that allow you and your downline to watch additional adverts, earn more money per click and obtain additional referrals. An enhanced membership usually comes in at a high price but in the long run, you would make more money with it.

Now let’s say you register for a PTC program and it has 4 adverts. You then get 1,000 folks to register using your referral link. You make a cent per click, as do your referrals. Do the math. That’s $ for you, presuming all 1000 of your referrals watch all 4 advertisements. Doesn’t look very bad, right? Forty dollars each day can be a lot.

But wait! It just so happens that most PTC sites are frauds. Essentially, PTCs are mostly pyramid schemes. They are called “pyramids” because only the folks at or close to the top earn any money, while people who are lower down normally end up getting nothing. For instance, if 10 peeople each invest ten bucks, that sums up to 0. The person who runs the scheme may give back to 4 people and keep the rest himself, leaving almost all of the others without any money. The way PTC web sites accomplish this is by getting you to invest in membership and referrals (usually not even genuine people but bots) and then they pay out with money that other folks have put in membership and referrals. The cash from ads does not cover their payouts, particularly since many of the referrals you can pay for are not humans. Eventually, people will stop investing in the Pay-to-Click site and the last people to invest lose out. If you started the plan, or were fortunate enough to get in right close to the top, you can possibly make a bit profit, but is it worth the risk? No.

My advice is that you avoid PTC web sites like the plague. You might earn a little money or not, depending on how high and close to the head schemer you are, but he’s a swindler and everybody else who signed up under you is losing money. It’s simply not a good thing.