One of the popular internet marketing crazes that right now appeals to a lot of newbies is to begin with Pay-to-Click Sites (PTC). I, myself, began that way. Allow me to elaborate on what a PTC web site is for people who are not aware what it is. A PTC site is a website where you are paid a very small amount of money for clicking on and viewing an ad for an allocated amount of time (normally half a minute). After you've viewed the advert you are compensated the small amount of money into your account balance and you must then amass it into a specific amount of money, such as $5, before you will be able to cash it out. In addition, nearly all of these sites have a little more to them, like special options available only to members, and referral rewards.

Whether you collect your referrals yourself or purchase them, when those people view adverts, you receive around 50% what they gget. In short, if you are getting one cent for watching an advert, you'll as well make half a cent every time each of those you referred does the same. It doesn't seems like much but it can add up if you have thousands of people signing up under you. Often you'll be provided extra options that permit you and your downline to view more advertisements, earn more money per click and get more referrals. Even if you may generate a little more money with one of the enhanced plans, they mostly cost a a lot up front, so be cautious.

For example, let's suppose you sign up for a PTC service that has 4 advertisements. You purchase a membership and you obtain 1,000 referrals. Each of your own clicks makes you $0.01 and so does every one of your referrals' clicks. Do the math. That's $forty bucks for you, assuming all 1000 of your referrals click on all 4 advertisements. Doesn't seem too awful, right? Forty bucks each day can go a long way.

But wait! It just so happens that almost all Pay-to-Click rpograms are up to no good. Think "pyramid schemes", for that is what essentially all of them are. They are known as "pyramids" because just the ones at or near the top make any money, while people who are lower the pyramid ordinarily end up getting zip. Hence, if 10 people put in $10 each, that's a total of $100. The guy on top could pay out $15 to 4 individuals and keep the rest himself, leaving virtually all of the people unpaid. How they can get away with this is through enticing us to become members and to purchase referrals (which, by the way, are usually bots, not genuine people), then paying us cash that other people invest to pay for their own membership and later referrals. Because most of the referrals may merely be bots, and thus non-paying, the money from watching ads cannot cover all the pay-outs. Eventually, people will stop investing in the PTC site and the last people to invest are not going to see any money. If you started the plan, or were fortunate enough to get in right close to the top, you can possibly see a bit profit, but is it worth the risk? Not at all.

Personally, I would advise staying away from PTC websites, as the genuine ones are going to earn you an insignificant amount of money and those that make big money are ordinarily scams, leading to someone losing out.