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These days, lots of folks who are interested to get an online business going are beginning with PTCs — Pay to Click websites. I, myself, started in that manner. I will discuss what a PTC website is for folks who don’t know.

A PTC website is a site where you are paid some money for clicking on and viewing an ad for a set amount of time (normally half a minute).

Whenever you view a whole advertisement (they normally last roughly 30 seconds), a tiny amount of cash is deposited into your PTC account, which can only be taken out when you’ve collected a specified sum of money, usually in the $5 range.

There are various other facets to PTC websites, such as referrals and special membership alternatives.

You may round up your own referrals, or you pay for them; either way you’ll gain roughly one-half of whatever they generate by viewing advertisements themselves. Put another way, if you are getting one cent for viewing an advertisement, you’ll likewise make one half of a penny every time each one of the people who signed up under you does the same. It sounds like kind of a slow way to go, but try to see what happens if you have hundreds of people joining through your referral link.

Some of these Pay-to-Click programs also have a number of special options to their members, allowing for additional money per click (usually for your referrals as well as yourself), additional ads and additional referrals. Even though you could make a bit more cash with one of the enhanced plans, they mostly cost a bundle up front, so be cautious.

To give you an idea of how this works, let’s say you register with a PTC program that shows up to four advertisements. You then find 1,000 folks to register using your referral link. You make $0.01 for each click, as do your referrals. Do the math. That’s $$40 for you, if all 1000 of your referrals click on all 4 advertisements. Sounds pretty awesome, right? Not bad for merely a few minutes of you time, does it?

The fact is, virtually all pay to click programs are nothing but frauds. Essentially, Pay-to-Click programs are simply pyramid schemes. Why “pyramid”? This is because if you aren’t among the first few into the pyramid scheme, your odds of really making any money at all are extremely low, approaching zero. Look at it this way: If ten different people put in ten bucks, that’s a total of $100. The scheme starter may pay out fifteen bucks to four of his down line, leaving the rest of the folks out in the cold.

How can they do is? Easy. To start, they talk you into signing up as a member and purchasing a few referrals (usually bots, not even humans). Next they then pay us with money that others have paid in for their memberships and referrals. Because majority of the referrals may merely be bots, and thus non-paying, the cash from viewing ads cannot cover all the pay-outs.

Unavoidably, they run out of prospective members and people stop joining, leaving those who weren’t among the first to join losing money. If you’re among the first people, you might make some money but it’s not worth the risk.

My recommendation is that you stay away from Pay-to-Click services like the plague. You may generate a little cash or not, depending on how high and close to the head schemer you are, but he’s a scammer and every person you referred is losing money. It’s just not a good situation.