
Spotting the best PTC sites isn't hard if you know what to look for. Let me start off by saying that even the once best PTC site can start having trouble. Some of them can become scams over night and some can just run out of money. So in the PTC world you must always be on your toes and constantly be on the look out for signs that your PTC site is going through hard times. Make sure you never spend too much money in any one site. Trust me when I say; even if a site looks like it will always be around, don't go spending too much at once. Some people sign-up to a PTC site and start upgrading their membership, buying tons of referrals, and changing all their referral strategies to get more out of their new site in an instant. Before they knew it, poof, the site’s nowhere to be found along with their cash.
This isn't the way to go. There’s such a strategy called “testing the water”. Always give it some time and earn a little before you spend too much time or money. Remember, it has to stick around long enough for you to get your money back.
How then do you find a profitable PTC site?
Simply Googling for best PTC sites and settling for the first or so results won’t do you any good. That’s because there’s as many scam PTC sites as there are scamming people who’re only into creating web pages like these to get referrals and nothing more. They write a few lines about how great they’re doing in PTCs and then paste all their referral banners afterwards. Believing them immediately would most likely get you scammed in an instant.
On the same note, there are of course legitimate and reliable PTCs out there but their profitability are simply subject to your demographics, and membership (standard or upgraded). In short, the amount of money you’ll get from them in exchange for your effort is still in question. They might prove profitable for users coming from the west (Europe, North America), but for the others it could prove otherwise.
Now, here are THIRTEEN tips that I’ve mustered from reading a lot of PTC related articles and my own experience on how to spot PTC sites that could reward you better for your clicking efforts.
1) Find a PTC site. It’s always the first step. Remember the Googling for best PTC sites earlier? You can use it but never join up instantly unless you’ve read and followed the rest of these tips.
2) How does the site look? Most of the time, it takes effort and, sometimes, money to come up with a good looking and user friendly site. The more presentable and well laid out a site is, the more its owners invested their effort in it; meaning they’ll more likely stay for a longer time to recover their initial investment and to profit from it. If it looks like a piece of shit and they make it difficult for you to navigate their site; plus it always go haywire when a lot of users flood it, that site must’ve cost like dog shit too. The owners certainly don’t care that much about the site to address its short comings therefore they could just runaway as easily as they’ve setup the site.
3) Verify. Google keywords like best ptc sites, legit ptc, high paying ptc etc. Look at the sites from the results and check if the site you’ve chosen were also on their list. Although these guys who made these lists of candidate PTCs are probably scammers as well, they would never pay any amount of shit to a site that looks and feels scammy at the beginning right? What’s the use of their referral banners if they wouldn’t earn from the referrals they recruit? Think about it.
4) Check if they’re on the scam list. Visit scam.com or GPT Boycott to see if they’re on the watch list. Try Googling for keywords like ptc scam, ptc scam list, gpt scam etc then check if your site at hand appears a lot of times in the scam lists. You could also try searching for the site name + scam and see if there are people who are angry enough to accuse them of being scammers. It’s always best to hear horror stories from other people to know what you’ll be dealing with if you decide to signup. But always evaluate the horror stories if they are valid enough to be called an actual scamming. Alternatively, you can do a whois look up of the PTC site’s domain name, if you know how. I’ve heard a lot of scammer trackers use this to bust a scammer who’s planning to scam once again. Unfortunately, I can’t provide you with any useful “how to” about it for the moment.
5) Check what they have to offer. How much is your click worth? How many ads are there waiting for you? Do they have referral system? Do you earn from your referral’s clicks too? What are the other earning opportunities in there for you besides clicking ads? Usually you can find this information on the front page to attract more members. If they’re hiding it, then it must be not worth showing at all. If you can’t find any of these info in their site, maybe they don’t want you in their program, LOL. Just leave.
6) No referral system means, you won’t be able to earn big time from the site. Check how much you can earn from your referrals. Some PTCs pay you beyond your first level referral, that’s “A” okay. See how much you’ll earn from your referrals clicks. Less than 50 percent will earn you slow but experienced PTC users all agree that the PTC program will more likely last longer.
7) Most PTC programs today offer other means of income besides paid to click. There are paid to sign up, paid to read, paid to surf, and a lot of jackpots and lottery contests. Personally, I don’t spend much time in the others except for paid to read and paid to click but more features means more income opportunity. Just avoid too much of paid to signup. I’m currently suffering from excessive spam lately because of that (about 200 to 300 spam messages a day).
8) Explore the site’s TOS and FAQs. I never really read all that’s written there since they’re almost identical with the other PTC sites in saying that “they can curb their own rules anytime without any prior notice”. Just find that payment section and read. How much does it cost to cash out? What are their payment processors? How long do they process your cash out request?
9) No payment processor? No deal. Don’t sign up. (Unless it’s clixsense, which might turn out a scam later on, who knows? I’ll update you just in case.) It’s a scary thought when you’ve invested a lot and they promise you payment in check that never comes.
10) Cashing out must never be a problem. If it costs a lot to cash out like 50 to100 dollars (sometimes as ridiculous as $1000), they’re probably trying to keep you in their program as a “clicking slave” which they’ll dispose of after they’ve acquired their much needed profit. If it requires you to be an upgraded member to cash out, they might have some reason why they don’t want to grant that privilege to those who don’t want to invest more in their program but always beware as it’s also very very scammy in nature.
11) Sometimes they’ll tell you that it would take more than a month to receive your payment after you made your request. That’s funny if they have payment processors like paypal or alertpay. It should be done within a week after you made the request. If other PTCs can do it instantly, why can’t they? Sites like this are very problematic, it’s either they can’t afford to pay you or they have no intention of paying you at all because after a month they’ll be on their way to another scamming spree using your hard earned cash to fool more people.
12) Try to look for payment proofs from them. You’ll find it in their forum section (if they have one) or maybe try searching for their site name + payment proof and see if there’s going to be any results at all. More actual payment proof from different people means they’re actually paying.
13) Now here’s the meat of the “profitability” part and you can actually verify it for sure only after you’ve been a member for some time. How much do you actually earn for your click and how many ads are actually available for you? Based on my experience, most of these PTC sites give you tons of ads on your first signup, perhaps all because of their promise; “not less than ten ads”, or “many ads to click”, whatever. But the painful part will come on the following more days. Your clickable ads will lessen gradually or instantly shrink down to just 3 or 4 (sometimes none at all). The same goes to your 1 cent ads. The ads you’ll be clicking next will just earn you a quarter of a cent, or worst, a hundredth of a cent.
Just imagine 3 to 4 ads for just a tenth of a cent each, how’s that for your click’s earnings a day? If you encounter sites like this, just forget them. You’ll just be clicking for eternity there yet barely getting near that one dollar mark. And don’t ever consider referring people either. If they’ll just be earning the same amount, you’ll just be dragging more souls to that hell to suffer with you because you’ll need a million of them to get your dollar for sure.
There are also sites that give you tons of ads, literally (like 140 something or more). But the catch is, each just cost a tenth of a cent down to a hundredth. Imagine breaking a penny into small pieces. You’ll get one itsy bitsy piece of that per click, LOL. So if you click those tons and tons of ads, you’re just going to make the same amount as clicking four one cent ads from a better PTC site. I’d rather spend my time clicking those ads for an hour or so to something better like making more websites for adsense which could earn me more. Or better yet, search for free tutorials on how to make a reasonable income from adsense and learn from it.
What I’m trying to say here is look for sites that give better value to your click and has appropriate number ads for you to click on.
ADDITIONAL TIPS
Before hitting on those signup buttons, here’s my two CENTS about joining and investing on Paid to Click sites that just might help you along the way, I hope.
1) Don’t spend more than what you’ve earned from them. Upgrade your account only when you’ve earned that cost to upgrade from their program. The same applies to renting referrals. This way, even though it’s a slow start, you won’t go berserk mad when they suddenly disappear because you only invested them a few of your time and nothing from your pocket.
2) Always make sure you earn more than you spend. Don’t go upgrading your membership or renting lots of referrals without making sure first that everything you’ve spent will earn you more. Your goal is to grow and not to merely survive. Calculate and find a strategy that will get you just that.
3) Always put in mind that a PTC site might be paying and booming today but it’ll be gone sometime later because of mismanagement or eclipsing returns. Always check the buzz about them and never invest more than what you can afford.
4) Don’t promote sites that piss you off because of their performance. You’ll just add to the aggravation by adding more people who’ll also get pissed using their program.
I know I’ve missed some points about spotting the best PTC sites around. In case you have a few to share or perhaps some corrections about what I’ve been babbling about, please feel free to drop it in the comments.
WHAT'S NEXT?
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