What is a "PTC" ?

PTC stands for “Paid To Click”. As the name implies, you will get paid to do clicking tasks. What do you click? Mostly they are ads (advertising). Some sites may have other tasks for you to accomplish allowing more income to be obtained such as completing surveys, offers, etc. But that to be discussed later, if you’re still new to this kind of thing, the basic stuffs in PTC are as simple as these :

• Register or join
• Click on ads
• Get paid !

Easy, eh? Of course, there are some rules that have to be complied with, but those are also easy as well. I can even say that it is nearly impossible for you to fail to gain money from these kind of sites! Oh, and moreover, it’s free!

Join free, easy work, get paid, what could be better than that?

The only thing you might want to worry about is joining the wrong sites (scam sites). Those will just only wasting your time, and even steal your money if you choose to invest some hard cash. On most PTC sites, although you can join free, you can also choose to upgrade your account into premium one. This will allow higher pay rate, at the cost of some investments. Therefore, suppose you decide to upgrade (again, this is optional, you could still gain money as free/standard members), you would want to only invest on the trusted ones, wouldn’t you? And that’s why this blog is presented for you :) .

Okay, some of you maybe curious about this kind of bussiness scheme. Do they really able to afford you real cash? Where does the money come from? Are they sustainable?

As I have explained before, PTC sites mostly live from the ads (advertisements) that you click. Where do the ads come from? Advertisers, of course. They pay some fees for their ads to be able to be shown on the PTC sites. Just like placing ads on newspaper. Ads will only meaningful if people are seeing them, right? Or in online term: people must click and view them. To motivate people to click the ads (which is the same as visit and bring traffics to the advertiser’s site), PTC sites who administer the displayed ads give some parts of the fees they get from the advertisers as a reward or payment for the visitors (PTC members).

In short: advertisers get traffics, PTC sites get profits, members get cash. All win. As the advertisers pay real cash for the fees, PTC sites will also give real cash for their members as well.

For the “sustainable” part, it depends on certain factors, but the most significant is the cash flow. There must be an acceptable limit between the income for the PTC sites (from the advertisers that pay fees or from upgrading/investing members) and the expense (payment for the members). Beware of the sites that offer huuuge payment for a single click, those will most likely turn into scam sites. More on this scam topics will be addressed in another post. For a simple remark, real and trusted PTC sites should have enough ads (from outside advertisers, not from its own owner) and normal pay rates. Those will guarantee the stable lifetime of a PTC site.