Crash n Burn

Well... a lot has changed in 3 months. Formerly stable sites have disappeared into the void, nothing more than another statistic in the GPT world. PTRs that have been actively paying for over 1 year are few and far in between. If you're looking to make money from just PTRs, forget about it. It's a saturated market, where the average PTR disappears within 3-6 months. No... the real money is to be made in contextual advertising. What's that? Basically, these are text ads that appear on websites that offer related products to your site visitors. For instance, your site could be about the different places you've travelled to, and the ads could be from travel agencies, airlines, etc.
Google Adsense is the most famous of the lot, making heaps of cash for those who know how to use it properly.

Of course, if you're promoting GPT, contextual advertising is not an option. Paid-to-Click does not comply with these sort of ads, as advertisers pay for valid (genuine) traffic. GPT will forever be a mistrusted 'business', due to the high % of fraud that can and may occur with it.

PTRs vs Real Life

I've put most of my PTRs on hold. The reason for this is simple. In terms of monetary rewards, it is minimal. In terms of effort, it is highly time-consuming. A typical PTR clicker can earn perhaps USD 10 per month without referrals. Building up a referral base is no easy task, and once you've achieved a sizeable referral network, there's no guarantee that your referrals will remain active. Then, there's the worry that the PTR site could shut down without any warning.

A full-time job would surely earn more than you could earn with PTR. But, the general idea is that you can click a few links, while doing other things online. If you can earn a few bucks for just a few (thousand) extra mouse clicks, would you do it?

So why join PTRs?
PTRs offer the average Joe the chance to see how affiliate marketing works. The real earnings from PTRs comes from having an active downline. Assuming 10% earnings from your referrals, having 10 referrals means that you double your potential earnings from PTR.
PTRs offer a low cost means to advertise your website and services. The sites normally promoted on PTRs are search engine sites and other PTRs. Some people even use PTRs to promote their eBay items for sale!
Others like the idea of earning money during their free time.

Unless you live in a country where $1 USD can feed your family for a week, I do think that your time can be used more productively doing other things. That being said, I still click a few links every now and then... but I restrict it to a few PTRs that have a good track record, and relatively low activity requirements... namely...

• Classical-Mail
• PolarPTR
• DonkeyMails
• Worldwide-Cash

PTP Strategies, Tips & Cheap Ads

Many people find Paid-to-Promote (PTP) a great opportunity to make additional money from PTR sites. Let's face it. Clicking PTR emails non-stop is a really boring way to make money.

How does PTP work? Basically, you promote a PTP page with your referral link, and earn credits depending on the geographical location of your traffic. Now, for the best results, you would want to promote your pages on approved websites, with visitors from Tier 1 countries.

The best PTR sites for this would be those that limit their members to US, Canada, UK and Western Europe.

Cassandrasclicks.com is a good example. Check out the cheap PTP ads (this month only).

# 3000 PTP Clicks - $1.15
# 4000 PTP Clicks - $1.50
# 10,000 PTP Clicks - $3.65

Now, when it comes to PTP, there's always a % of invalid clicks which you have to factor in, to calculate if you can make a net profit from your ads. I currently have a PTP ad running on this site for DonkeyMails PTP, and I'm getting about 50 clicks a day. Most of the traffic is Tier 1 and 2, and the % of valid hits is quite high. 139 clicks, 115 detected, 106 valid hits, 81.2 credits in total over 2.5 days.

Actual valid click rate is about 76.3%. Now, for the 3000 PTP Clicks package, you pay $1.15. Estimated total return is 1752 credits, equivalent to $1.314.

A small profit? Yes. Is it worth the effort? Well, here's the thing. If anyone signs up for the PTR site from your PTP page, they add to your referral downline, which earns additional money for you! I've gotten 2 additional referrals so far, which is a good start.

Another tip. Be sure to promote PTP sites that have a good track record of server uptime. If the site is down, you won't earn credits for PTP visits.

Alternatively, you could sign-up to a PTP with NO TIERS. No tiers means that the number of unique hits is the number of credits you get, irrespective of the geographical location of the visitors. Be warned though. Some of these sites may have trouble paying up in the long term, since having no tiers make these sites more susceptible to PTP click fraud.

PTR May Updates

VeronicasPTR and Random-PTCs appear to have gone offline for good. Apparently, the webmistress had some problems with fraudulent advertisers - credit card chargebacks can wreck havoc with PTRs.


PolarPTR is currently having trouble with Paypal - their account has been suspended. This is probably due to PolarPTR having a multi-level referral system which Paypal frowns upon (MLM is a no-no). PolarPTR has since switched to a single referral level of 20%.

PolarPTR is probably one of the more popular PTRs out there, so it is likely that many other PTRs that use Paypal will take heed and make the necessary changes to comply with Paypal TOS.

Among the PTRs to change to a single referral level recently are TheClickersClub and EarningAtHome.

As for the PTRs that prefer e-gold, this won't affect them. World gold prices will, however. Currently hovering at 680 USD/oz, up from 430 USD/oz in May 2005.
See the chart

May 2006 Payouts

BlueBirdPTR - $1.01 USD + $0.07 USD

BannerFoxAds - $0.22 USD

ItPaysToLearn - $1.31 USD

KittensPTR - $0.18 USD

SkunksPTR - $0.05 USD

Extraordinary-Mails.us - $1.01 USD.

ShareAdSpace - $0.35 USD.

MoraTraffic - $0.44 USD.

StormofCash - $0.29 USD.

Classical-Mail - $0.50 USD.