Promoting your PTR sites

I'm always on the lookout for cheap advertising packages on various PTRs. The problem nowadays, is that many people perceive PTRs as nothing more than click farms. Alas, for some sites, this is true.

But fear not. There are a few that do encourage active participation with its members. BGPayMail is one such site. BGPayMail is a real gem with over 9000 members. Email ads are worth at least 2c each. The frequency of emails varies, but they are usually worth reading carefully. The reason for this, is that there are usually clues to a puzzle. For observant readers, it can be a bit of a treasure hunt. Replying to the email with the right answers can net you a small reward. This doesn't mean that you HAVE to participate to get paid. No. You could just mindlessly click links to reach payout. But, you'll be missing out on all the fun.

Many other PTRs run click contests, raffles, word scrambles, and so on. These can be quite entertaining. New PTRs also try referral contests, offering free ads or cash prizes for the top promoters. These are good incentives to promote a PTR and gather new members for the site.


To use PTC banners or PTR Email ads?

Email ads allow advertisers to promote the sites they want, using their own words. Many people simply copy & paste the PTR site info that they want to promote, and wonder why so few people signed up under them. The key is to write something about the site, that one has personally experienced. One could point out the low payout requirements, click values and quantity of emails expected. Here's an example:

Donkeymails is a great PTR site, with no minimum payout via e-gold, or $1 minimum payout via Paypal.

There is a PTP section paying 75c per 1000 credits.
Email ads are worth at least 0.25c each, and you can get about 20 of these a day. Point emails are optional, so if you don't want too many emails, you can opt-out.

Donkeymails currently has over 23000 active members. That's a lot of people viewing emails, especially good if you're an advertiser as well.

Click the link and if you like it, sign up!
http://donkeymails.com/pages/index.php?refid=gforce2

PTC banners are usually cheaper than email ads, and generate hits at a slower rate, but that doesn't mean they are less effective. PTCs can be a great way to promote a new PTR or website. Why not design your own banners to promote your favourite sites? Be creative, and perhaps more people will click your banners out of sheer interest.

Aside from using other PTRs, traffic exchanges can be a great way for site exposure. I refer primarily to manual traffic exchanges, since these provide much better quality traffic than autosurfs. Some manual traffic exchanges allow targeted web traffic, and these are usually much more effective. Some PTRs are selective about their member's geographical location, so this feature allows you to target visitors from certain countries.

Among some of the better manual traffic exchanges are TrafficG.com, Clickthru.com, WebmasterQuest.com, TrafficSwarm.com and Easyhits4U.com.

It has come to my attention, that some manual traffic exchanges provide very low quality traffic; this may be due to exploitable loopholes in the website's PHP scripts, that prevent pages from loading, or allow bot activity. Try promoting a PTP site, and see what sort of results you get. This usually gives a good indication of the quality of traffic you get from a certain traffic exchange or PTR.