How do PTC and PTR websites do to make money?

This is one of the first questions of someone when starts to work with PTC (Paid To Click) or PTR (Paid To Read) websites.

It's not easy to believe that we can really make money on the internet just for click on ads, and I am used to receive emails from people who want to understand how is possible to exist this type of websites that pay us to do this simple task.

The truth is that a PTC or PTR website well planned and structured can be very profitable for its administrator, working as a business that generates profits while its members (employees) are paid.

I will show some examples of how some popular sites are profitable.

METHODS TO MAKE A PTR OR PTC SITE PROFITABLE:

Selling packs of visualization of ads - This is the main method of any PT website, if the members earn money for clicking an ad is because some advertiser invested on buying visualizations for its product.
The sustainability of a site depends on the price of this ad visualizations which have to count with the number of members that will click that ad and earn money, the amount of referrals of that member that will also earn and give a percentage for him, and the profit of the site itself.

Sample prices from the PTC Buxout

Selling or renting referrals - This option began with the birth of PTC.
The selling price of these referrals must be well planned as the sale of views, and must follow the percentage that the member who bought will start to win daily with the activity of its new referrals.

Sample prices from the PTC SandraClicks

Selling of account upgrade packs - This is another option that should be well studied because it allows members to increase the proportion of their income (own or referral clicks) in exchange for a price.

That price has to take into account the period of time of the new type of account, which can range from one month to one year, how much the member will go to win with each click, as well as how much will gain from the percentage of referrals, and which the profit that the site may have with this purchase.

Sample prices from the PTR DonkeyMails

Games of "bad luck or fortune" - Begins to be almost required for a PT site to have a game area where members can invest their own money or the money gained on the site to try their luck or bad luck ....

This type of games have very attractive awards to the winners , as packs of referrals or upgrades to their own account, but only some can win each time, and the money of losers becomes an advantage in the profitability of the site.

Sample prices from the PTC Neobux

Selling of visible space on the site for banner ads - It is known that the Adsense Terms, the most profitable advertising on the Internet, bans its use on sites PT, but there are alternatives such as Bidvertiver.

Even so the method used and most profitable ends up being the sale of banner impressions or provision of advertising banners for periods as a week or a month, placed at visible points from the site.

Sample prices from the PTR Fishing4Mails

As you just realized the money we earn on these sites "does not fall from the sky."
If they are managed by a competent administrator the PTC or PTR sites end up becoming a source of sufficient income to live.

4th payment from DonkeyMails, one of the oldest PTR online

Total earned with this site: $ 5.68

One of the oldest PTR still active and famous is DonkeyMails.
I keep earning money by clicking on paid emails sent by the site with values up to $0.01 and with the minimum payout of only $1.
I have to congratulate Sebas Brokhof for is excellent work administrating this site.

Transaction Details Web Accept Payment Received (ID #confidential) Name: Sebas Brokhof Email: s.broekhof@hccnet.nl Payment Sent to: (confidential) Total Amount: $1.23 USD Fee: $0.00 USD Total: $1.23 USD Date: Nov. 24, 2008 Time: 16:08:11 WET Status: Completed Subject: Sebas Broekhof Custom Note: Donkeymails Payment Type: Instant

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SandraClicks was, is and will remain being one of the giants in this PTC world

AJMS did another announcement after the sad news of the death of his fiancee and also SandraClicks admin, Sandra.

The last annoucement eventually bring a lot of mistrust to members (and to me) and led us to fear that SandraClicks were about to be abandoned.

But this time AJMS wanted to convey a message of hope to announce it intends to continue to work on his PTC and dedicate himselves to keep SandraClicks among the best in the world, considering this Monday as the start of a new period in life of the site.

The pending payments since Tuesday have already been processed, and as evidence can read the comment made by tuliorl on the Portuguese version of this blog where he confirms having received its pending payment.

Everything indicates that the site is back to normal and we will continue to earn easy money with this PTC.

Contest underway on Neobux and my 15th payment

Total earned with this site: $ 1.191,90

I have passed the goal of 1000 dollars received with this PTC and in less than half year!

CONTEST UNDERWAY ON NEOBUX

Did you know that Neobux has a contest going on?
It was launched on the 7th of this month and aims to promote the activity of ALL standard members and reward the 6 members with more clicks each month.

THE PRIZES

1^st place - The standard member with more clicks each month wins:

• 1 Golden membership and 1 Ultimate pack for one year (worth $980);

This clicks will be based only on the total of advertisements available worldwide and for each country.
This means that if a user had 100 distinct advertisements for his country and another one only 20 for his country, it will be the same rate.

2^nd to 5^th place - Standard members with at least 4 ads clicked each day of each month wins:

• 1 Golden membership for one year (worth $90);
  

For number 1 and number 2, in the case of a tie, the winners will be randomly draw.

END OF THE CONTEST

There is no deadline set for the end of this contest, which means that the same will happen during the months to come and the winners will be announced at the end of each month and credited in the following week.

Transaction Details Web Accept Payment Received (ID #confidential) Name: NeoBux Email: paypal@neobux.com Payment Sent to: (confidential) Business Contact Information Customer Service URL: http://neobux.com Customer Service Email: support@neobux.com Amount received: $200.52 USD Fee: $0.00 USD Total: $200.52 USD Date: Nov. 21, 2008 Time: 18:48:04 WET Status: Completed Subject: NeoBu Custom Note: NeoBux payment Shipping Address: No Address Provided Payment Type: Instant

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Bad news about SandraClicks

When SandraClicks seemed to be recovered from the long stop for upgrades, and returned with great news, happens the unexpected death of Sandra, one of the site administrators.

News was given by his ex-fiancée AJMS and may be saw by any member that enters the site and find this banner:

From what is explained on the topic created about this subject, Sandra died because of a stomach cancer only detected on November 14th when she entered on the hospital emergency.

For now and as a result of this events, AJMS said he is in very poor psychological condition to continue with the site, and will remain off until he feels recovered, so I recommend you to stop investing on SandraClicks and wait for better news.

In my nearly three years working with Paid To websites I already saw two closing due to administrator's deaths, so these news makes me predict the worst and at the same time I avoid thinking that this could be just another scheme to disable the site and "run away" with the money.

Any way I want to express my condolences to Sandra's family.

Fishing4Mails attacked by a hacker

If you login to your Fishing4Mails account today you will find an administrative message (#51) why the site has been offline for most of the day.

According to administrator today Fishing4Mails was attacked by a hacker who could not cause more damage because he was detected and stooped in time.

Any way you should enter the site and check your profile data, especially if the PayPal ID was changed or if your money was cashout to another PayPal account.

If you detect irregularities contact immediately the support!

The security fail that allowed this hacker attack was already identified and the administrator is currently repairing it and the damage caused, you may detect some instability on Fishing4Mails.

ATTENTION, at the end of the message a choice is required and you have two options, it's obvious you have to select the first saying "I will check my profile", if you have doubts check my example on the picture above:

2nd payout from WordLinx

Total earned with this site: $ 20.00

Another payout received from WordLinx that as you already know pays through PayPal.

I remember you that the contest to promote the member that gets more referrals between 5 October and 5 December is still ongoing.

At this time I am at 5^th place as you can see on the page with the rankings and with this position I can earn $50!

If you haven't signup yet but want to help me do it now and try to at least click once a day to be considered active member.

Transaction Details Web Accept Payment Received (ID #confidential) Business Name: Rogue Media Buyer Email: paypal@rogue.co.uk Payment Sent to: (confidential) Business Contact Information Customer Service URL: http://www.rogue.co.ukhttp://www.rogue.co.uk Customer Service Email: paypal@rogue.co.uk Customer Service Phone: +44 7762299137 Total Amount: $10.00 USD Date: Nov. 14, 2008 Time: 08:56:30 GMT+00:00 Status: Completed Subject: Rogue Media Note: Your affiliate payment Shipping Address: No Adress Provided Payment Type: Instant

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SandraClicks is back and with new features

Unfortunately the scheduled stop of SandraClicks was longer than expected and the site remained inaccessible for a week.

In compensation 4 more days will be added for all rented referrals.

With the return of the site also came new features:

• History has been improved and the old data deleted;
• Added "Average referral clicks". If some of your referrals has "Undefined" is because the site can not find the purchase date;
  
• "Surf Ads" page now works fine in all browsers and have anti-cheater visual code;
• Page "Benefits"added;
• Ads now reset at 6:00 server time;
• Full Script Optimized;
• Instant payout and jackpot pages were improved;

Its time to restart click on SandraClicks to earn easy money!

Buxout safer and the 6th received payment

Total earned with this site: $ 65.03

In addition to profitable, this PTC is also safer.

This month was introduced a new feature called "Login Attempts".
As the name suggest we can now control what is happening with our account and see if someone is trying to login in it or if had already succeed.
To see the log just go to your account area and click on "Account History", the status of the last seven loggin attempts will be presented and you will see if they were successful or unsuccessful.

Transaction Overview Date 11/12/2008 1:37:36 PM Reference No: (confidential) Transaction Type: Transfer received from Method: Buxout.com support@buxout.com  Current Status: Completed Amount: $14.10 USD Purchase Type: Service Note: Member: dav7 - Buxout.com Payment! Please post your Payment Proof in the Buxout Forum.

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Vacations mode on Neobux and the 14th payout

Total earned with this site: $ 990.39

Did you knew that members who bought the Golden Pack have the option of using a vacation mode that disables the point 3.7 of the TOS?

How Vacation Mode works on Neobux:

The vacation mode works very simple, imagine that on January 1st you will not be able to click on Neobux ads, the party of the new year was big and the next day is to sleep...!
To activate the vacation mode you just have to add January 1st to the list of days on holiday and therefore, even if you don't click any add that day, you will receive all of your referrals clicks on January 2nd.
The number of days that we can use depends on the type of pack purchased, and can range from 7 to 30 days (Ultimate).

If you have any referral that also activate his days in vacation and stop clicking, he will be marked on the listing and won't be automatically replaced for inactivity.

Transaction Details Web Accept Payment Received (ID #confidential) Name: NeoBux Email: paypal@neobux.com Payment Sent to: (confidential) Business Contact Information Customer Service URL: http://neobux.com Customer Service Email: support@neobux.com Amount received: $151.80 USD Fee: $0.00 USD Total: $151.80 USD Date: Nov. 9, 2008 Time: 12:23:49 WEST Status: Completed Subject: NeoBux has sent you money! Custom Note: NeoBux payment Shipping Address: No Address Provided Payment Type: Instant

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Help me earn on WordLinx and earn yourself to

Remember the referrals contest integrated in the celebrations of the 5^th anniversary of WordLinx?

The admin announced today that due to "overwhelming demand" the period was extended being now counted new referrals from 5^th October to 5^th December.

Today was also introduced the contest rankings page with the first 20 classified members, and at the time I write this post I am positioned at 6^th place but only the first 5 ones will be rewarded.

The prizes for the top 5 winners will be:

• 1st place - $250.00
• 2th place - $100.00
• 3rd to 5th place - $50.00

Lets see if I can get the podium with your help!

This post is related with the celebration of the 5th anniversary of WordLinx.

18th payout from the PTR Fishing4Mails

Total earned with this site: $ 44.56

Its been a while since my last payment request on this PTR that, as you already know, pays its members every 30 days even if they only have $0.01.

My earnings  have been accumulating and I now ended up receiving my biggest payment ever since my sign-up on Fishing4Mails in about two years ago.

It remains the best PTR in activity and I recommend that at least try it!

Transaction Details Web Accept Payment Received (ID #confidential) Name: David Levesley Email: cash@fishing4mails.com Payment Sent to: (confidential) Total Amount: $6.40 USD Fee: $0.00 USD Total: $6.40 USD   Item Amount: $6.40 USD Shipping: $0.00 USD Handling: $0,00 USD Quantity: 1 Item Title: Fishing4mails.com Payout Item Number: 1 Date: Nov. 2, 2008 Time: 02:58:53 WET Status: Completed Shipping Address: David Levesley 27 Lisle Court Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire hu12lx United Kingdom Payment Type: Instant

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In October I easily earned money from the following websites

My lists with the values received in each month have become a "mirror" of the PTC industry revolution proving that  today we have to bet in websites with instant payments!

One thing is sure, every month that passes I know that I will have proofs of payments to show from sites like Neobux or Buxout, and I hope to also have from SandraClicks in November, another great PTC with instant payments like I told on my post.

On the other hand the list with pending payments is the same from the last month and I am still waiting for payments from that sites in danger to close.

Check my monthly list of earnings and sites that is worth to work with.

Payments received this month:

Site	Value	Frequency	Type
	$ 261.81	2x	PTC
	$ 37.75	3x	PTC
Advertisements	$ 8.25	1x	-
Total =	$ 307,81	6x	-

Pending Payments:

Site	Value	Date of request
	$ 146.00	9/06/2008
	$ 26.00	05/10/2008
DailyClicks	$ 20.93	13/02/2008
	$ 7.11	6/06/2008
Total=	$ 200.04	-

Check also my list of accummulated earnings in 2008, updated with September earnings.