WORDLINX

Wordlinx is another good and established program I joined last week. They have been in business for over than 4 years and have almost 57000 members.
They have also a different approach on PTC, as you can directly use what you've earned through your cliks to buy visitors for your own advertisement campain.

Make sure you join their mailing list as they'll pay you upto 5 cents just to read their update mails, and you can also earn from $0.01 to $0.05 for emails sent by advertisers through that mailing list.

Membership :

$0.01 per link clicked (as a free member you'll receive around 4-5 links daily, sometimes more, sometimes less)

$0.005 per referral click

Minimum payout is $10 through Paypal

You an buy referrals at $1 each, but they don't always have available referrals to buy, however, when all are sold out, they do give a date when you'll be able to buy .

They have 3 different upgrades :

Verified Membership $5 per year :Verified Buyer Status Tells advertisers you can buy online, and your own ads are targeted at other verified buyers
100 Visitors will be Added To Your Account Advertising sample, worth $2.10 (once)

Premier membership $10 per month : you will have the verified status +

Unique Visitor Targeting (Each member can only click your link once)

Visitor Location Targeting (Target regions like America, UK and Europe)

Half Price Visitor Fees (5% + $0.50) >>Pay less when buying visitors

Pro membership $25 per month :Same features as Premier membership +
Half Price Visitor Fees (5% + $0.50) >Pay less when buying visitors

Half Price Banner Ads (just $25 p/m!) >Pay less when buying banner advertising

Half Cashout Level (just $5 instead of $10)

2 x Affiliate Earnings (10% per sale) >Earn double when your referrals buy visitors

2 x Referral Earnings (10% per click)

2 x Referral Bonuses ($0.10 each) >Referral must click an advert to qualify

2 x Upgrade Bonuses ($2.00 each!)> Referral must upgrade to qualify

3 x Bonus Earnings ($0.45 per $10!) >Earn triple bonuses when browsing ads

1000 Visitors Added To Your Account

100 Visitors Per Active Referral (Referral must click 50 adverts to qualify)

Advertising :

Wordlinx has different means of advertising, at rates beginning at $6.50 for a full campain (to the whole member base)

You can also advertise to the 4500 confirmed e-mail subscribers and the price begins at $59 (for $0.01 mails) up to $249 (for $0.05 mails). These will be unique visitors, as only one e-mail will be sent to each subscriber.

Obviously you can also choose banner advertising. For $50 per month., your banner will be displayed at the "browse ads" page and will be seen by all the members.

My opinion

As of today, I'm fully satisfied with this program, I'm not upgraded and have no referrals, and I did earn around 40 cents in a week or so, which is a very honnest rate.
I foresee to upgrade as verified as soon as I can, in order to receive more ads daily.
I'm confident about this site, as it's in the business since more than 4 years, and are also sustainable.

Kooplinks

If you've read my post about "springtime clean", you've probably noticed that I was a member at Kooplinks, and that this site was "on hold" concerning my decision to keep it or leave it.
Astonishingly (and I'm happy to have waited before deciding), just a few days after I wrote that post, the number of links available to click increased significantly (for example, today I had about 10 links to click, which is an honnest rate).
That's why I review this site now, as I choosed to keep it.

I'll not enter in details concerning Kooplinks. Their choice and variety of possible advertisings, as well as different premium memberships and referral packages is so wide that it'll be much better for you to see for yourself at their site.

Here 's just a little general information :

> The site opened on Feb 7th 2008
> You get paid $0.0025 up to 0.01
> The minimum payout is $0.02 (2 cents)


My opinion :

This site climbed at almost 9000 members in less than a month, and the communication skills from owner and staff did certainly much to bring this site were it is now.
I already loved this site and was a bit dissapointed when I saw I had not much to click on. Now that ad rate did increase, I'm very happy to have decided to wait and think before leaving.
What I love with this site is the very low payout (remember, 2 cents !), this payment can even be automated to receive it daily (when available on your balance) through Paypal Mass-payout.
Communication coming from staff is remarkable since the beginning concerning informing members on updates or anything important.
The choice of advertsing means and upgrade possibilities is so huge that I doubt I could find more at any other site. (at least not at those I'm member of)
To summarize, this site is almost perfect, and best from all, is also sustainable!

Hugebux

HugeBux started the 14th jan. and counts now around 800 members.

Membership :

$0.01 per link clicked
$0.005 for each link your referals view
Minimum payout is $10 through PayPal (may be removed), Moneybookers , E-gold, or Alertpay

With upgrade :

- +15% first level referrals earnings more, that means $0.00575.
- +25% increase in personal clicks ($0.0125)
- 5 free referrals to your downline.
- Priority Payments - get paid in less than 2 Days.

Premium Membership is $ 7.99 for a 2 months membership

You can purchase un-referred HugeBux members at this price (different sets) :
3 referrals set : $3
10 referrals set : $9.50
20referrals set : $18.50
100 referrals set : $92.50

Advertising :

Members can only click on your ad once every 24 hours. Non members hits are free and unlimited.
Prices are as follow :

500 members visit : $3
1000 members visit : $5
2000 members visit : $9.50
3000 members visit : $14
5000 members visit : $18
10000 members visit : $35
20000 members visit : $67 .... (you can advertise up to 100 000 members)


My opinion

Nice site with around 5-10 ads per day.
The membership does however not grow very fast, and this site has still a long road to travel before it becomes a big hitter. But there's no reason , with a little more promotion, why they shouldn't progress.
Advertising rates are cheap, but still sustainable and with many options.
I look forward for their forum opening (still in "coming soon" ) and proofs of payment.

10bux

10Bux started the 19th february and I did sign up a few days later. If you're already involved in "Paid to", you certainly saw a huge amount of ads for this site. It is also already very popular and counts now more than 12 000 members.

Membership :


Join Bonus : $ 0,05
$ 0,01 for every click you perform
$ 0,005 - For every click your referrals performs
Payout $ 10,0

I'm not upgraded and I receive around 5 to 10 mails a day
My earnings as of today are 48 cents.

If you upgrade you'll have the following benefits :

*Ability to see when your referrals were last active!
* Earn 5% if your referrals purchase a premium membership! That means that if a referral of yours purchases a lifetime premium membership, you'll get $11.25 automatically added to your balance!
*5 cents for every referral your referrals purchase! That means that if a referral of yours purchases a 500-ref pack, you'll get $25 automatically added to your balance!
* $0.015 each click (50% increase!) and $0.01 each click from your referrals (100% increase!).
* Priority Payments.

Cost of the upgrade varies depending on which you choose :
1 month is $9.90
1 year is $69
Lifetime is $225

You can also buy referrals at this cost :
5 members set $9.95
35 members set $59.65
100 members set $ 149.95
Limited! 500 Members set $599.95


Advertising :


They charge $1.99 per 100 members visits and each visit will last at least 30 seconds. Outside visits are unlimited and included within the price. Bigger packages are given at discounted rates (see here). They do not accept websites that promote adult content or illegal activity or sites that use frame breakers.

Particularity one of the greatest benefits of advertising with 10Bux.net is if your ad stays active for a long enough time, it will be picked up by search engines like Google and will give your site an extremely high page rank because you are linked from a high traffic website!


My opinion :

A site that promises much.
The admin is the same as PaidClicks, and however I don't belong to this site, it's webmaster has a very good reputation and is known as being one of the owner making the fastest payments.
Checking at the advertising rates, this site is sustainable.

Cash-Linkz

SITE CLOSED !!

I became a member from Cash-Linkz already 2 weeks ago, but, as the site was down for necessary features adding, I thought it would be better to wait before writing a review.
Now the site is back online and running smoothly.

Designing of this site is simple and clear. Characteristics are as follow :


Membership :

Each ad click will give you 1.25 cent ($0.0125).
Payout $10 through Alertpay

I'm not upgraded and I get around 10 ads per day to click on.

Upgrading will give you the following benefits :

- $0.015 for each ad clicked.
- $0.0125 for each referral ad viewed.
- Priority Payments - Expect to be paid within 3 business days!
- Minimum of 20 ads daily (soon)

Premium Membership is $55.00 for a 1 year.

You can also buy referrals onsite, they have a 35 referrals package for $35


Advertising :

Advertising plans begin at $1.50 for 100 unique visits (more here)

I have no referrals and my earnings as of today are $0.7875.


My opinion :

My opinion , considering the site was down often since I did sign up, is that my earnings are not so bad when taking this fact into consideration. Now that they're back online, I'll have to see if they still continue to deliver the same amount of clicks everyday.
Considering their advertising prices, this program seems sustainable

Isabelmarco's moneymaker

Isabelmarco's moneymaker is one of the latest site I signed in this week. I do belong to their membership since only 2 days.

What attracted me?
They took the time to translate the whole site into many languages (obviously english ; german ; dutch ; spanish; portuguese), and even if some translation errors can be spotted here and there, I find it's a nice and new idea, showing respect to their international members.

Membership :

$ 0.01 for each website you personally view ($0.015 if you upgraded premium)
$ 0.006 for each website your referrals view ($0.012 if premium)

Payout is $9. Payment requests can be made every day and are processed through Alertpay.

Price of the upgrade to premium is $8 for one month and $60 for one year.
You can also buy referrals (upon availability), they have different sets from 5 , 15, 35, 100 or 500 refs (price of the 5 refs set is $6.80)

I'm not upgraded and Since I signed up, I got around 20 ads to click every day, and, without any referral I did already earn 47 cents

Advertising :

Advertising plans begin at $3 for 500 visits ( for a detailed tarification you can see the prices here )


My opinion :

Though this site is still on test by me, it seems promising. I'll however give my personal opinion later, considering their ad prices.
Taking them "as is" makes the site unsustainable (they pay 1 cent per click, but if you divide $3 /500, the result is only a bit more than a 1/2 cent. However, this is not the only thing to take into consideration to see if a programm is or not sustainable...)

How to get referrals?

That's the billion dollar question...How to get referrals in any kind of Paid To program?

We all know that the way to really make money with these sites is to get as much referrals as possible in your downline.As for any person joining under you, you'll get a percentage of their earnings. This percentage varies from one program to another.
Having a consequent downline is the only way to make much money in Paid To programs, but then, how to do in order to attract potential referrals?

I'll only list the most simple ways to get referrals here, assuming that those who read my post are not "professionnal" advertisers with already huge downlines ;o)

1- First of all, do you have friends who could be interested in PTR? I mean, online friends as well as "real life " friends. This is a good point to start building your downline. If so, talk with them and introduce the programs you trust the most. It would be a pity to lose some friends because you lied on program, telling they're good but finding out at the end that they're not paying...
Send them a mail to motivate them and explain what you're doing (I just LOVE my friends but I wouldn't follow them blindly in their ventures without any explanation)

2- Join some dedicated Paid To forums and add your referral links into your signature (take care though and read their TOS, because some forums do not allow links in signatures)
Once you joined, post a lot, and be friendly and helpful, the more you post, the more your links will be seen, and as for being friendly, it seems logical that no-one would like to sign under an unfriendly person.

3- Try to set up a webpage or a blog, and promote your programs there.
Stay simple if it's your first attempt, as it'll be very time consuming if you try it complex. You'll lose your focus on PTR and spend too much time on trying to understand how to design your website.
Put your referral banners as well as some comments about the site(payout, how many ads per day, if the admin seems responsive and serious, as well as some notes about your personnal experience about the site)
Tell also a bit about yourself, as we all know that people will be more attracted by someone they feel "close to" and they'll more likely sign under for the same reasons.
Do not advertise too much programs on the same page...ask yourself which reaction you would have if you saw a page full of blinking banners and referral links...I'm sure you would close the page in the very same minute, anyway...I would!

Here's a link where you can create a free website, it's just an example, you can find many of those sites just by typing "free website" in your prefered search engine.
http://members.freewebs.com/

Creating a webpage will allow you to spend less into advertising, when you'll buy some advertising, you'll send traffic to YOUR site where all your programs are listed, instead of buying advertising for each and every program.

4- Try to find good deals of advertising on the programs you already belong to (paid to signup for example, or just a classical "paid to read" ad).
When you begin to promote, try to find the cheapest possible.

5- Browse the web if you try to join a particular audience. Some programs are USA/UK/CANADA/AUSTRALIA only, if you're not living in any of these countries, you won't be able to sign up as a member there, but some of them do allow advertisers from "outside".
From my personal experience, I got the best advertising results and the most active referrals from one of these programs. Advertising there is not more expensive than at any other site, but then you're sure you'll get "quality" referrals.
By "quality" referral, I mean coming from "search friendly" countries ; their searches will be accepted on search engines, and as many ads do promote searches, the most ads your refferals will be able to perform, the more you'll earn from them.(these countries are not limited to US/UK... but, unless you have a "targeted ad" option you can't usually have US+ europe, which are actually the "search friendly" countries)

6- Don't promote a PTR which is hardly promoted by anyone, you won't attract many people.There's an exeption though : if the program is brand new! this is the best moment to promote !!
In the same view, don't promote those having hundreds of thousand members as they have certainly reached a maximum point, and it will be hard to find more members : those who were interested in did certainly already sign up.

7- Try all the free means : manual surf, autosurf, traffic exchange, link exchange programs...
these are not much successful, but you'll certainly catch one or another referral , and as it is free ...

And last but not least : don't give up! your advertising results will certainly be very dissapointing in the beginning, but with much perseverance you'll have sucess and maybe, who knows, have one of these big promoters with a lot of referrals in your downline.

Some useful advices

* Get a special mail account devoted to PTR, some sites do send around 100 mails per day and your regular mail account would soon be "polluted" , setting a separate account allows to keep your regular one clean for important mails.

* When you sign up to a PTR site, you'll usually have the choice to receive search ads or not to receive them. If you choose to get them, then you have to do the searches correctly (see below >>*How to do a valid search) in order to receive more mails. It's usually possible to see if members are doing valid searches, and if you don't you'll receive less and less mails). Searches are time consuming, and if you're short on time better chose not to receive them.

* When you set up your account profile, you'll certainly have to choose categories of interest, these categories do show up as a list and you have to checkmark those you're interested in.
NEVER blindly click all the categories, as many admins do insert some lines such as "delete me" , "I can't read english" "I use autooclicker" "I cheat" aso... If these lines are checked, your account will be DELETED and you'll lose your membership as well as all earnings you made :o(
PTR is very easy, but I urge everybody to CAREFULLY read everything, at sign up as well as the ad messages themselves.
Many admins do now and then send CHEAT LINKS , and if you don't read carefully you'll click on the confirmation link which is a cheat link purposedly set to check if you actually read the mails. These links are clearly noticeable and mention things like "cheat link, do not click" or something similar.

* Do VALID searches : some rules do apply for a search to be valid :
When you click on the mail link, you'll be brought to a search engine page
1. click on a keyword
2. DO NOT CLICK ON ANY RESULT before the next page is fully loaded
3. When the result page is fully loaded, wait again a couple of seconds before clicking on a result
4. Sometimes a result will lead you to another search engine, repeat then the whole above procedure.
Be careful, because too much invalid searches can end in your IP being banned (from search engines)

* Ads do have timers (timer lenght is different from one site to another) and the same rule applies to every PTR : never click another link before the timer is ended.
You can however click on other links from other PTR's while you wait.