Can anyone give me some pointers on starting a paid to click (ptc) site?

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Can anyone give me some pointers on starting a paid to click (ptc) site?

Answer 1

Right ok so your thinking of starting your very own paid to click program. You think once everything is setup members will come flooding in with that lucrative referral plan you spent hours designing. You think its a case of sitting back and waiting for the first advertisement sales so you can forward the job to your members and take some free quick earned cash. Hmm most of the time, its not that easy.

Attracting members is pretty easy, but it does require money. Getting some attractive banners is a must! And chucking hordes of bonuses in your members faces for signing up and referring is also important! You need to buy banner impressions and maybe paid emails to about 10 top PTC sites to get a share of their traffic and to attract their members - remember members are trying to make money fast, so joining more than 1 ptc site to maximise earnings is just pure logic. Maybe go into the big get paid to forums and pay members to put your banner in their signature. Offer 10c for every referral your members get, lower the minimum payout. Basically make your program look like the dream program to potential members! Thats in referring and earning!

Ok so your member base is growing.. but o dear! They’re not earning anything because advertisers arent prepared to risk their dollar with you just in case your members are crappy lazy clickers! Well in that case, your going to have to create some ‘opening advertising offers’. You will probably loose money on these, but it will definately be worth it if the advertiser gets good results.

How to find advertisers? Signup to a load of ptr programs and ask for search ads. When you get a search ad to click, go to the site, then try to contact the admin. Send him an email asking to tryout your brand new spanking ptc site with crazy low ad prices he just cant miss out on!

You can do the same process with paid-to-promote ads as search ads. Find the ptp sites, and contact the site or page owner.

Obviously In a few weeks when growth is stabilizing and advertisers are returning you can bump your prices back to market level, in order to start making some profit.

just remember: Its all about attracting the search and ptp advertisers and members who click click click!