2. Signing Up With A Site
Once you decide you wish to sign up with a site, click on the sign up option. You will be taken to the page where you need to give your email address for the site to send you the link to complete your sign up. Sites usually list out email addresses it does not accept. Therefore, when signing up, please make sure you use an email address that is not listed out as unacceptable by the site.

Once you have given your email address, you will receive an email from the site to complete your sign up. Sometimes the sign up mail may not reach you within a few seconds, but may take a few minutes. If you do not receive it, please check in your bulk/spam folder or it may have got blocked by the spam blocker in your email account. Therefore, please check your spam/bulk folder and also ensure to add the email address to the approved list so that all future paid mails will not go to your bulk/spam folder or get blocked from the spam blocker in your email account.

When you receive the email from the site, please click the link in the sign up email. It will take you to the area where you need to enter details. When completing your sign up, you need to take the following into consideration:

- You need to give the correct details when filling your name, address, province, zip code and country. Program Owners delete members who have given false information.

- When selecting your interests, you need to select them carefully as there are certain categories that are inserted by the Program Owners to see whether you are paying attention to what you select. If a member has selected such interests, the account can be deleted by the Program Owner as selecting such interest is a clear indication that members either do not understand English or was not paying attention.

Other areas a member needs to take care when selecting interest categories include the sex and age group. Please ensure to select one option of each interest. For example, if you are female, select only "female". If you are 32 years old and there is an age group between 30-35, select that. If a member has selected multiple sex and age groups, the Program Owner will come to the conclusion that the member is either not paying attention or cannot understand English and as a result, the member may lose the account.

- Then you need to select your preferred payment method from the drop down menu. Below that is the area where you need to put in the preferred payment method number or address. For example, if you are an E-Gold user, you need to give your E-Gold number. If you are a Paypal user, you need to put in the email address you signed up with Paypal etc.

- Then comes the password. When using a password, it is always recommended to use a combination of numbers and letters to prevent your account from getting hacked (please refer separate post regarding protecting your account against hacking). It is also important to remember to use different passwords for each program you sign up with to prevent your account from getting hacked.

Once all the above information has been filled, you can complete your sign up. Once you complete your sign up, you will receive an email from the program giving your username and password. You can create a separate folder in your mailbox to keep such emails if you wish.

In case you forget your username/password, you can request them by going to the "log in" area. Click on lost password link below the username/password, fill the email address you signed up with the program and request. The program will then send you your username and a password with numbers and letters. You can log into your account using that information and change the password.

3. Receiving Emails
Once you sign up with a site, you will receive emails from the program. The emails you receive are mostly those purchased by advertisers. It is your duty to read the email, click on the paid link and view the website advertised until the timer runs out. If the advertised website interests you, you can sign up. If the advertiser is happy with the results received from the site she/he advertised with, they will purchase more advertising. Therefore, please give due attention to the email and the advertised website.

The main reason Program Owners require members to read and understand English is due to the fact that 99% (in some sites, 100%) of the advertisements are in English. If a member does not understand English, he/she will not know the contents of the email or the website. Therefore, the advertiser will not receive the results he/she hope to receive. As a result, they will no longer use that site for any further advertising. If there are no advertisers, there would be no emails to send out.

A member can see how much he/she has earned by going to the "earnings" area. This will show how much a member has earned, how much the members referrals have earned him/her, the credits and the debits. Some sites also show the number of referrals in the earnings area itself whilst some other sites have a separate area showing referral stats.

Some sites send links worth cash and/or points. Points are not useless, irrespective what some members may think. There are some sites that send points which can be converted to cash. So points mean cash. Also, in the redemption area, the member would see various redemptions for points such as paid advertisements, paid-to-click known as "PTC", banner impressions, top/bottom advertisements etc. In this instance, points mean free advertising for you. By using points, you can advertise the site of your choice without spending your own money. Therefore, contrary to members belief, points are a good way of earning extra cash and free advertising for you.

I would like to make a small note on timers. Timers are set by Program Owners so that members will view the website for a certain period of time, hoping to give the advertised website due attention. Members receive credit once the timer runs out and the notification appears that the member has been credited for the visit. Most sites do not allow you to open more than one link at a time. If you are in program "X" and you are checking the mails from that site, irrespective how many emails you may have, you will not be able to open multiple links. You will need to wait till the timer expires in order for you to open a link sent by the same site. If you attempt to open multiple links from the same site, you will see a notice which says "you must let the timer expire before opening another link" or "please let the ad timer run out" or something to that effect.
 

4. Other Ways Of Earning From A Site
There are several ways of earning from sites. Reading and clicking on links sent by email is one way. In addition to this, when you log into your member area, you will find other ways of earning as well.

a) Paid-To-Click (PTC) is a section where there are banners and text ads. Sites usually have separate areas for cash PTC and point PTC. Clicking on banners and text ads in the PTC area will increase your point and cash earning, thus taking you closer to the minimum payout set by the site.

b) Paid-To-Promote, commonly known as PTP is another way a member can earn. Not all sites offer the PTP feature. If the site offers PTP, it will be on the homepage of the site. Usually it would mention "67c/1000 credits" or "50c/1000 credits" etc. Please refer separate post regarding PTP and how to use them.

c) Paid-To-Search - some sites have a section called paid-to-search where a member is paid points or cash for making searches. When you come to this area, please make sure to read any note the Program Owner may have put up. Some programs require the member to be from a search friendly country (search friendly countries are listed in a separate post). If the Program Owner has a notice requesting only members from search friendly countries to use that section and if you are not from a search friendly country, I would not recommend you to use that section. The reason is that the Program Owner can delete you for "cheating".

d) Contest PTC - Some sites have a contest PTC area. Here, you may not receive any cash or points for clicking on the banners or text links immediately, but you may stand a chance of winning cash or points if you are selected as a contest winner.

e) Manual Surf - Some programs have manual surf for cash and/or points. When you go to the manual surf area, you will the manual surf link assigned to you. When you click on it, you will be taken to a page where you need to visit the pages advertised. Manual surf pages have timers as well. When the count down is over, the program will ask you to click on a matching number, colour or sign which will take you to the next page. You need to click on the correct number, colour or sign. Once you do that, you will get credited for your visit and also take you to the next advertised page. Sometimes you will see the notice "there are no more pages to visit", which means that you have visited all the sites advertised in the manual surf for that day. You can once again surf the next day.

Most sites also have contests from which, you can earn various things such as free advertising, money, points etc. If you have time in your hands, playing the various games in the sites would earn you whatever that is offered by the site for playing and winning the games.

5. What Referral Commission
On the homepage of a site, you will find for example:
3 Referral Levels
Tier 1 - 10%
Tier 2 - 7%
Tier 3 - 5% etc.

The number of tiers and the referral commission offered for each tier vary from program to program.

Sites usually pay commissions for member who recruits referrals (also known as downlines). In order to advertise your referral link, you need to go to your referral central. There, you will find the link which you can use to advertise and gain referrals, a link to refer advertisers and also banners you can use to promote to gain referrals. If you are interested in sending email advertisements to gain referrals, you need advertise your referral link. Then if another member is interested in the site and joins the site you are advertising under you (using your referral link), you will have him/her as your referral. You can see the members you refer in your EARNINGS area. Some programs have a separate REFERRAL STATS area where your referrals will show.

Tier 1 referrals are your direct referrals. The referrals in the other tiers are your indirect referrals. For example, your tier 2 referrals are those recruited by your direct referral or referrals. If you find an asterisk (*) against a member in your downline, it means that they have joined using your referral link. If you do not see an asterisk (*) against a member in your downline, it means they are not those you referred. The scripts work in such a way that if a member in your tier 1 deletes his/her membership, his/her referrals move up. This way, his/her referral becomes your referrals. But since they are not ones who joined using your referral link, an asterisk (*) will not show against their usernames. It is the same procedure if someone in your tier 3 or 4 unsubscribe from the site. Please note that not all programs use the asterisks sign. In some programs there would not be any asterisk sign at all.

If a site is paying 10% referral commission for tier 1, it means, you will earn 10% from their earnings. If for example your referral has earned $1, your referral commission earned would be 10 cents. If the site is offering 7% commission for tier 2, it means you will earn 7% commission from their earnings. For example, if you tier 2 referral earns $1, you will ear 7 cents from them. If the site is offering 5% commission for tier 3 referrals, it is the same procedure. You will earn 5% from all your tier 3 referrals. This is only if there is zero activity policy in the program.

Some programs require you to be active in order for you to earn from your referrals. For example, if the site has a 25% activity policy, it means you have to be at least 25% active as your referrals to earn from them. If the site sends 20 mails a day and your referrals click on all 20 mails, you would have to click on at least 5 mails to earn from your referrals. If you do not click at least 5 emails a day, then you would not earn from your referrals.

You can check the activity percentage required by sites using the following link. This works for sites using cash crusader scripts only. Please replace ccsitename.com with the Cash Crusader site URL.
http://www.ccsitesname.com/scripts/runner.php

6. What To Do When You Reach Payout?
- There are some programs that pays on a monthly basis, irrespective how much you have earned. In such programs, you do not have to request payment. You will be paid when the site pays all its members.

- There also sites that say you can request only once or twice per month. In such instances, you should make sure you request only as per the instructions given by the site, i.e. request only the maximum (once or twice) as stated by the Program Owner.

- Most sites however, have a fixed amount as the minimum payout. When you reach payout, you need to go to your redemption area and request payment. When requesting payment, please make sure you give whatever details requested in the correct payout redemption. There are various payment redemptions depending upon the membership level. Please make sure to check out the payment redemption option and select the correct one. For example, if you are a free member, do not click on the payment request shown for upgraded members.

In some sites, you do not have to go to the redemption area to request payment. Below your earning, there is an area that says "A cashout button will appear when you reach the min payout.". As it says, when you reach payout, a button will appear to withdraw your payment. When you click on it, it will take you to an area where your input is needed to make the payment to you. In that area, you can select the mode of payment (Paypal, E-gold etc), then you need to fill the account number/address. If it is E-Gold, you need to insert your E-Gold number. If it is paypal, you need to fill the email address you used when you signed up with them. After this comes "amount to withdraw". Here you can either fill in the amount you would like to get paid (for example, if the payout is $2.00 and you have $2.10 and if you would like only the $2.00 to be paid, you can mention $2.00 as the amount to be paid). If you would like the full account balance, you need to check the box against "Full Balance". If the site is charging any fees for the payment option you selected, it will deduct that amount and show the amount the site will pay you in the "net amount" area. Then click on the icon "request".

One important thing to remember is that sites have a policy which says it will pay members within a certain amount of days. Most sites mention that payment will be made within 30 days or reasonable time thereafter. You can check the time frame in the Terms Of Service (TOS) of the site or the FAQ/Help section. Sometimes, you will be paid within a few hours or days of requesting payment. But if the program says it will pay within 30 days and if you have not received payment within a few hours or days, please do not keep sending emails to the Program Owner asking for your payment. In case you do not receive payment after 30 days, then you may send a mail to the Program Owner requesting to know the payment status.

If you do not receive a reply from the Program Owner, if the program has its own support forum or a support folder in another forum, please post your concern there.

7. Who Are Cheaters?
Members are considered as cheaters for various reasons:

- Members who create more than one account in a site if the site specifically say only one membership per IP/household
- Members who use click bots (software to click on links, which is considered an illegal practice)
- Members who click on cheat links.

Where cheat links are concerned:
(a) Some programs have a one strike rule which means, if a member clicks on one cheat link, the member will be deleted from the program.

(b) Some programs have a three strike rule which means, if a member clicks on three cheat links, the member will be deleted from the program.

(c) Some programs have a more lenient policy whereby if a member clicks on for example three cheat links within a specific period of time (for example, one month, three months etc), the member is deleted from the program.

(d) Some programs deduct a certain amount of money for clicking cheat links, but do not delete the member?s account.

(e) Some programs deduct a certain amount of money but at the same time, after a certain number of clicks on cheat links, the member lose his/her account in the site.

All these practices vary from program to program as per the discretion of the Program Owner.

When sending cheat links, Program Owners usually warn members by making the subject and the text quite prominent. For example: Please skip this mail, This is one of those emails etc. The body of the mail can also vary from "DO NOT CLICK THE LINK BELOW" to any kind of warning which the member should not miss unless the member is not paying attention to the contents of the email. Members who do not read the mail but click on cheat links are considered as ?blind clickers? and would face the consequences stipulated by the program.


There are two kinds of cheat links.
(1) Visible cheat link? Here, members can see the link. If the member clicks on the cheat link, the concequences will be one of those mentioned above.

(2) Invisible cheat links - These are invisible to members who do not use cheat bots to click on mails. Anyone using cheat bots can see the link.

Sometimes, even honest members accidently click on visible cheat links. It happens to the best of us although we feel guilty about it for a long time. If it happens, the best thing would be to send an email to the Program Owner admitting the mistake and apologizing for the same OR the member could put it down to experience and be more careful in the future. Some members however, send emails to the Program Owner with absurd excuses. I would strongly recommend you to not do that. Remember, honesty is the best policy.

Clicking on one cheat link accidently does not make you a cheater. But if you click on a cheat link where there is a one strike rule, then the Program Owner will delete your account. It would be worth your time to write a polite email to the Program Owner as stated above, admitting your mistake and apologizing. But it would totally depend on the Program Owner whether you are given your account back or not.

The reason some Program Owners prefer a one strike rule is because they are very strict on "cheaters". But there are other programs that have a more lenient rule (refer point above under "Where cheat links are concerned"). Usually Program Owners become concerned of members who repeatedly click on cheat links which means that either they do not understand English, they use cheat bots or they are not paying attention to what they signed up to do (paid-to-read).

8. Advertising & Redemption Options:
When you click on your redemption option, you will be taken to a page which lists out the redemptions you are eligible. When redeeming, please make a note of the sites it does not accept for advertising. There is no point in sending an advertising request if the site you intend advertising is not accepted. It is a waste of both yours and the Program Owners time.

The usual redemption options are:
- Advertising packages which include paid emails, PTC advertising, banner impressions etc.
- Paid emails (points/cash)
- Paid To Click
- Paid To Promote
- Search advertising
- Paid To Sign Up
- Banner Impressions
- Side links at the site
- Top/Bottom sponsorship ads
- Contest PTC
- Contest ads etc.

(a) Paid Emails: When sending emails, members usually copy/paste what is in the homepage of the site they are advertising. Whilst this is quite alright, it is always best to write down something using your own words. For example, if you are promoting a site that has paid you promptly, easy to reach payout with a friendly PO, you might want to mention that instead of copy/pasting what is in the homepage. When writing ads, you need to be honest and give the real picture instead of an advertisement with false information/exaggerations. Also keep in mind, members do not usually like to read very long email advertisements. So remember to keep is short and sweet.

(b) Paid To Click (PTC): When making redemptions of this or when buying PTC ads, you need to submit the site URL and the banner URL. You can find readymade banners in your referral centre (same place you will find your referral link). Most sites have a note to request members not to hotlink the banners. It means, the Program Owners do not want you to copy the banner URL directly but instead, you need to download the banner and host it elsewhere before using it. You can use free hosting sites to host your banner if you have no other way of hosting banners. Photobucket and Image Shack are two common places you can host banners for free. Therefore, when using the readymade banners from the site itself, please ensure not to hotlink unless allowed by the Program Owner.

(c) Paid-To-Promote (PTP): PTP is a feature that is not offered by all programs. What PTP is explained in a separate post. When making redemptions for PTP, make sure what sort of PTP advertising it is. Sometimes, it can be link only and sometimes, text with link. Therefore, when you are submitting your ads, please make sure you submit it correctly. If it is link only, it means just that. You need to give ONLY your PTP link. If it is text as well as link, then you need to submit your advertisement accordingly.

If it is PTP text with link advertisement, please make the most of the advertisement instead of just typing "click and let the page load" or "thanks for your click". Treat it just like a normal advertisement and do a small write up about the program. Members can join under you from your PTP link (in the PTP page, there is a link which says "join the site"). If an interested person clicks on the "join the site" link, it takes them to your referral link. Some members, even though they do not advertise the site, do get referrals by promoting their PTP links. So putting some effort into writing a nice advertisement to send along with your PTP link would be worth your time.

(d) Paid To Search: If you are a member of a search engine, you can promote it by purchasing or redeeming paid to search ads. Pleasee see separate post below regarding search ads, forced searches etc.

(e) Paid To Sign Up: Most programs have a paid to sign up area where you are paid a fixed amount to sign up with a program listed in that section. You need to sign up with the program that interests you, copy your welcome email (this is the email you receive from a program when you complete your sign up) and submit it. Please do not use this section for the sake of earning money quickly if you are not interested in the sites you sign up with. It is unfair to both the program and its advertiser. If members keep signing up just for the money, the program would lose and advertiser and gain a bad reputation as well. The advertiser will not get what he/she paid for. An important thing to remember when you are copy/pasting your confirmation email is that you need to xxxxxx out your password.

(f) Banner Impressions: Some members feel that banner impressions is not a fruitful way to advertise. Remember, it depends on the type of banner you use. Using readymade banners of the site you wish to advertise is quite alright, but most members design their own banners with animations and their own words. The more attractive the banner is, more clicks it will receive.

Banner Making Tips & Suggestions:
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Online Banner Making Sites:
Addesigner
Free Animated Banners
3DText Maker
Flamingtext
Cooltext
Banner Creator

(g) Side links at the site: When you go to a site, you will see side links (text links). This is what is meant as side links.

(h) Top/Bottom Sponsorship advertisements: Top and bottom sponsorship ads are inserted between the paid ad. Usually, Program Owners limit the text of these ads as the email would be too long with unlimited lines of text in the top/bottom sponsorship ads. If you are redeeming for this type of advertising, keep it short and sweet but give some interesting information about the site along with the referral link.

(i) Contest PTC, Contest Emails: When members click on these PTC or emails, they mayl not receive cash or points immediately. Most contest PTC and emails have a zero value. But members are selected by the program randomly and rewarded accordingly.


The types of advertising/redemptions available vary from program to program. But the ones listed above are some of the most common redemptions/advertising that Program Owners offer.

9. Advertising Search Engines (Search Advertisements):
If you belong to a search engine, there are certain aspects you need to be aware of. First and foremost is that incentivized searches are not allowed by the search engine. It means, paying members something in order to do a search for you. When submitting your search link/ portal link (searches are explained in a separate post), please ensure you do not submit the text in a way to force members to make a search. Incentivized/ forced searches are against the rules of search sites and your account can/ will be deleted by the search engine. For example, please do not use text such as follows:

- If you don't wish to search, don't click on the link
- Click only if you wish to search
- Explaining the steps to carry out a "valid" search
- Asking members which words to search etc.
- Asking members to do perform valid searches

Search ads are considered as normal ads. It is up to each individual member to decide whether they wish to search using your link or not. Forced searches are usually rejected by most Program Owners. If a Program Owner does send a text such as mentioned above, there is a very big possibility of someone reporting you to the search engine where you could lose your account. Therefore, please take care when submitting your text.

What is a forced search?
There are certain programs in which the Program Owners force members to perform searches and if members do not carry out valid searches, they are threatened with deletion. This can be considered as a forced search.

Program owners do this by:
- Having special memberships which is available only for members who perform valid searches.
- Offering various incentives for members who perform valid searches including lower payouts, receiving more emails than the members who do not perform valid searches etc.
- Sending lots of emails to members who perform "valid" searches while members who do not perform "valid" searches receive little to no emails.

Is there a way for Program Owners to see who does a valid search?
The answer would be yes and no. There are some Program Owners who also own search engines. In such instances, they can check where the searches are coming from. More experienced members usually report forced search sites/Program Owners to search engine owners. This would be a wasted effort if the Program Owner and the Search Engine owner is the same.

What are search friendly countries?
The following list is the one used by most programs.
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Iceland
Italy
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States

10. What is Paid To Promote (PTP)?
The following is regarding the Paid-To-Promote (PTP) feature of Paid-To-Read sites running on Cash Crusader scripts. There are other PTP companies, which has nothing to do with Cash Crusader PTP. Sites that have the PTP feature give its members an additional means of earning money. By promoting the PTP link assigned to members, they can accumulate ?credits?. These credits can then be converted to cash. Whether a member wishes to use the PTP feature or not is solely up to the member. There is no rule to say a member must promote it. But most members promote is as it earns them additional money.

Some programs with PTP's credit cash to your account automatically for each valid hitt you receive to your PTP link whereas in most programs, the credits will get accumulated until you redeem them yourself.

What does CPM mean?
It means Cost Per 1000. M is the Roman letter for 1000. If you see a site offering 70 Cents/ CPM, it means the same as 70 Cents per 1,000 credits.

What is a unique hit?
Sites with PTP have an xyz hour unique hits mentioned below the PTP link/s. Some are 12 hour unique hits and some 24 hours and so on. For example, let's say you are promoting a 24 hour unique hits link. If one member clicks that link, you will get credited for it. But if the same member clicks the link again before 24 hours, you will not get credited again. You will not receive credit for the second click if it is clicked before the 24 hours is up. It is the same for a 12 hour unique hits link.


You can find the PTP link/s assigned to you by going to your member area. In the member area, you will find a link called Paid To Promote, PTP Main or PTP Overview. When you click on the link or select it from the drop down menu, it will take you to your PTP area. There you will find;
- The PTP link/s assigned to promote
- The sample banners and the codes which you can promote. If you are interested in promoting any PTP banners, please make sure to host the banner elsewhere if you are not allowed to hot link the banner.

Some programs have more than one PTP link to promote, whilst some others have only one PTP link.

Sites with only one ptp link:
When you go to your member area, you will find a link called PTP Main or PTP Overview. When you click on the link or select it from the drop down menu, you will be taken to your PTP area. There, you will usually find your PTP link under "This is the link you should promote to get credited"

When you scroll down, you will find the PTP sample banners and codes. Below that, you will be able to see your stats. The stats show the name of the site you are receiving hits from, total hits, valid hits and the percentage valid.

Valid hit means, the member who clicked on your PTP link has allowed the page to load and stayed in the PTP link page until you received credit. For example, a site shows a one line notification as follows:
user has received for showing you this page.

Invalid hit means, the member who clicked on your PTP link has not stayed in the page long enough for you to receive credit.

There is no point in you receiving 100?s or 1000?s of hits to your PTP link if the valid hit percentage is low. It?s the valid hits that count towards the accumulation of credits, which you can then convert to cash.

Sites with more than one PTP link:
Some sites have more than one PTP link assigned to members. In such instances, it is very important to go through the instructions/ rules mentioned below each ptp link to find out where you can promote each link. Some links are those any member of the site can promote, some only upgraded members can promote, some links where you can promote in auto surf sites etc. The only way of knowing where you can promote each individual link is by reading the instructions/ rules carefully.

To check status, below the instructions/ rules of the assigned links, you will find ?Approved Sites?, ?Tier Info? and ?Statistics?. Approved sites mean, the sites that are approved to promote that specific link. Tier info gives you details of category ratings for countries which are based on advertising demand. Usually, the tier levels are the same in all programs, but how much credit a member receives per each hit can vary from program to program. The following is an example.

Category 1: Each hit will count as 1 credits
Category 2: Each hit will count as 0.8 credits
Category 3: Each hit will count as 0.5 credits
Category 4: Each hit will count as 0.3 credits
Category 5: Each hit will count as 0.1 credits

In order to check your statistics, you need to click on the ?statistics? link. It will take you to a page showing overall statistics. Here it will show the dates you received clicks on your PTP link, total number of clicks, number of valid clicks and some programs also show the number of invalid clicks and finally, the valid hits percentage. If you wish to see from which site/s you received clicks on a specific date, click on the date. It will take you to a page which shows the name/s of the site you received the clicks from, along with the total hits, valid hits and valid percentage.


What to check before advertising ptp links:
It is very important to check the following details before you start advertising your PTP.
- The rules of the site regarding promotion of PTP. It usually shows what sort of sites are allowed and disallowed.
- Before redeeming or purchasing advertising for a PTP, please ensure the program you are purchasing/ redeeming advertising is approved by the PTP site. If not, you will not receive credit.

There is no point in advertising in sites that are disallowed or not approved as you will not receive credit, irrespective how many clicks you may receive. All such clicks will be counted as invalid clicks/ hits which will not earn you anything. Therefore, advertising in unapproved/ disallowed sites is a waste of money.


How to convert credits to cash:
When you go to the PTP main page, you will find something like this:
Your Current Balance: 592 PTP credits Value: $0.3966
Your exchange rate is $0.67 for 1000 credits.

OR:
Your current number of Paid-To-Promote points is: 282
You can exchange these Paid-To-Promote points to cash.
The current value of points is: 70 cents for each 1000 credits

Minimum exchange quantity is 500 credits.
Exchange link will appear after you have reached minimum

OR something similar to the above.


First, check the minimum exchange quantity that the site is exchanging. Usually it is 1000 credits, but the minimum exchange quantity of some sites is 500, some others it is 2000 etc. If your PTP stats show that you have reached the minimum exchange quantity, click on the option ?convert?. Some sites automatically convert the total PTP credits to cash, but some sites give you the option to decide how many credits you wish to convert. For example, if the minimum exchange quantity is 1000 and you have 1050, you can either convert all credits or convert just 1000. It is up to you. When you convert the money, it will show in your account balance.

General Note:
When clicking PTP links of members, please make sure you wait till the page loads and the member gets credit for your visit. If you close the page after the timer runs and if by that time the page has not loaded, your click will not be counted as a valid hit. It will then be a waste of the advertiser?s money and the site that sent you the PTP link/ mail may lose a valuable advertiser. Please show the same amount of attention to other member?s advertisements as you would want to receive to your own.

Very Important:
Some members make the mistake of promoting the PTP but not click any links. Promoting your PTP link, logging into your member area and converting the PTP credits to cash does not make you an active member. No matter what a big PTP promoter you may be, if you do not click at least one email or PTC link within the inactivity period stipulated by the program, you will be considered as inactive and your account deleted.

11. Protecting Your Accounts From Getting Hacked
Unfortunately, there are those who hack members accounts. If you are unable to log into your account, first try retrieving your password. In order to retrieve your password, go to log in area, then click on "forgot your password/ID?", then you will be taken to a page requesting your email address to send you the password/ ID. Once you request for your password/ ID, if it says "sorry we do not have that email address in our database", then you would have cause for concern.

But before assuming you have been hacked, please make sure you are an active member. If you have been inactive, the reason you cannot log into your account would be due to it being deleted by the Program Owner. Also, if you have broken the terms of service (TOS) of the site, it could be that your account has been deleted by the Program Owner.

If you are an active member and feel that you have not broken the TOS of the site, and it shows that your email is not in your database, contacting the Program Owner and seeking their help would be the best course of action to get your account back.

In order to protect your accounts;
- Do not use same password in all sites. Some sites do not store passwords encrypted and that information can be used to attempt login to other paid to read sites.

- Passwords should not be common names or birthdates which are easy to figure out. Passwords should be at least 6-8 characters long with a combination of letters and numbers in no particular sequence.

- Never give your password to anyone. System administrator will never ask a member's password.

- If you acces the site through a link, make sure that the address bar in your browser displays the correct URL.

If there is a key logger in your computer, not matter how many times you change your password, the hacker will get it. This is the reason it is wise to scan your computer regularly for virus and keyloggers.

12. Ads Only Sites
There are two kinds of ads only sites.
(1) The most common ads only sites do not pay real cash to your preferred payment system. You can redeem what you earn to purchase advertisements from that site. There is an advantage of being a member of ads only sites. By promoting the sites that pay you cash in ads only sites, you can earn more without actually spending money for advertising.

(2) Some ads only sites offer points to cash conversions. The amount you receive from this conversion maybe smaller compared to the points to cash conversions of other paid to read sites.

Ad sites may offer 25/50/75 Cents, $2, $10 or even higher links per mail whilst the advertising rates are only about $1-$2 or even less. Site sustainability does not apply in this case as you are not earning actualy money, but "ad" money which means, the money you earn can be used only for advertising. Therefore, the site is not sustaining any loss from selling ads at low costs.

13. What Is A Turing Number?
Some sites use turing numbers to detect whether the one clicking on links is a cheat bot or a person. The turing number is a four digit number with 4-5 numbers below it. You need to click on the matching number to go to the advertised page. There are a few things you should note with regard to turing numbers.

- If only a part of the turing number has loaded, do not guess the matching number. You need to refresh the page and then click on the matching number.

- If the four digit numbers given below the turing number does not match, please refresh the page and click on the matching turing number.

It is important to remember that some sites have enforced a rule whereby if you click on the wrong turing number repeatedly for a specified number of times, the member's account is deleted. Therefore, it is recommended to make a special note of the above two points.

14. Common Mistakes Made By Members
Most members, specially, new members to PTR make the mistake of joining too many programs in the hope of earning more money. The opinion of such members is that the more programs they join, more paid emails they will receive and as a result, the more money they would earn.

This is not correct. The biggest mistake a member can make is to join too many programs. The more programs a member joins, more paid emails the member will receive. The more paid emails a member receives, the more time he/ she would spend time online clicking hoping to earn a few more extra cents.

If you are in 30-40 programs, imagine finding 800-1000 mails in your mailbox everyday. It might be even more as some programs alone send around 30-40 mails everyday. Finally, you will end up deleting more mails than the mails you actually click. Deleting mails without clicking them is a waste of your time as well as the advertiser’s money. Do not forget the possibility of the program losing a valued advertiser if the results are not good enough.

Another problem if you join too many programs is that you will not be able to take full advantage of the other earning opportunities offered by the same program such as, paid-to-click, paid-to-search, contest and other competitions, manual surfs, paid-to-promote etc. There is a very big possibility of you earning much more if you stick to a few well selected programs instead of spending time on too many programs and receiving more mails than you can handle.

The third problem is advertising the sites. If you belong to too many sites, it would be totally impossible to promote all of them without spending quite a big amount of money, unless you intend promoting only a handful of them or take turns promoting the sites. However, it is best not to spread yourself too thin.

If you are new to PTR and do not know which sites are good earners, which sites are currently paying etc. this forum provides a wealth of information. There are a few places you could ask questions/ find sites that are currently paying members.

- General Discussion Folder (Free): A lot of discussion takes place in this folder pertaining to free to join programs such as paid-to-read, paid-to-promote, paid-to-click etc.
- General Discussion Folder (Investment): In this folder also, a lot of discussions take place pertaining to programs where an initial investment is required, such as auto surf programs, bubbles, hyip’s etc.
- Newbie Folder: This folder is especially for new members who have questions pertaining to any money making site.
- Praises Folder: Here, a member can easily see the programs that have paid other members. Simply go through the "who has paid you in " or by program name.

Members usually find it useful to join a mix of programs such as paid-to-read, paid-to-read with the paid-to-promote feature, paid-to-click as well as manual surf sites. Members join manual surf sites to promote various sites they belong to, including paid-to-promote (PTP) sites. Manual surfs usually allow PTP sites to be promoted in them. But please make sure you read the rules of the manual surf site as well as the PTP’s approved site list. If the manual surf site is not approved by the PTP site, you will not receive credit no matter how many hits you may receive.

Also, when joining PTR sites, it is best to join a mix of sites offering low payouts, no minimum monthly payouts and if it is your wish, a few high payout sites (above $10 or so).

If you are not sure whether a program is good or not, whether it pays or not etc, take time to go through the above folders or ask questions by opening threads in the respective folder. Please do not open multiple threads in different folders asking the same question. Ask questions, research and join the programs you feel are the best. Join a handful of programs and concentrate on earning from them. If at some point you feel a particular program is not good enough, unsubscribe and find a better one if you wish. If not, be active in the remaining ones. Remember, what is good to one member may not necessarily prove to be a good program for you. Once you join a program, it is up to you to decide whether you wish to continue your membership or unsubscribe. Since you are spending your own precious time, select the programs carefully.

15. Advertising Tips
If you are buying a lot of banner impressions, check whether you can split the amount so that you can advertise more sites. Make the banners attractive so that you will draw more attention to them.

- Depending upon the money you are willing to spend on advertising, try and make the most of it. If you intend promoting a PTP link which pays 70 cents for 1000 credits and if the advertising price for 1000 hits is $0.50 and the price of 2000 hits is $0.75, you might want to buy the latter as it is a better deal. This again depends on the amount of money you have available or willing to spend. Also, if you are buying 5,000 - 10,000 PTP hits or more, you might want to check whether it is possible to split the hits and promote more than one PTP program.

- If there are offers such as "buy one and get one free" or "buy two and get one free" etc, you might want to check them out. There are offers as such that prove quite profitable for the advertiser.

- If there are any birthday sales, Valentine day sales, anniversary sales, Christmas sales etc, you might want to check them as well. Very often, the advertising rates offered for these special day sales are quite cheap.

(2) If you are an upgraded member, most sites usually offer free advertising on a monthly basis as part of the deal. If you are an upgraded member and you are entitled to free advertisements, do not forget to submit your ads and make use of the free ads.

(3) When writing advertisements, keep them short and sweet. Members usually get bored to read lengthy advertisements and quite often, lose interest half way. Just mention the important details and make the wording in such a way as to excite the reader. Please avoid copy/ pasting what is in the homepage of a site. Write down your own experience, in your own words. This has proved more productive. Therefore, you might want to try it.

(4) Another important thing to remember when writing advertisements is to give the "real" facts. Do not exaggerate or give false information. If you exaggerate or give false information, an unsuspecting member may sign up under you, but when he/she finds out the real situation of the program, he/she will unsubscribe and most probably, never join under you if they recognize your username. Remember, honesty is the best policy.

(5) Keep a track of the advertising stats. See where you get good results from. If it is a PTP link that you are promoting, check the valid hit percentage. If you are receiving a high percentage of valid clicks from a particular program, you might want to consider advertising with the site again.

(6) Do not attempt to promote all the sites you are in together. Concentrate on one advertising campaign at a time or a select few at a time. That way, you would be able to keep a better track of the advertising results and also, prevent you from spending too much money in one go.

(7) Join some ads only sites or sites that send points. You will be able to redeem the points you earn to promote the other sites from which you earn money. This way, you would not be spending your own money to buy advertising.

(8) When submitting advertisements, make sure the links work. The best way to get about this is to click on the link and when it opens in your browser, copy/ paste it from the browser itself.

(9) If you do not see your ads after a couple of days or so, please get in touch with the program owner and find out the status of your advertisements. It is possible that even though you submitted your advertisements, the program owner never received it. Be polite when making the inquiry.

(10) Last but not least comes the golden rule, which has been mentioned once before in a post above. Treat other member’s advertisements as you would want them to treat yours. If it is a PTP link you are clicking, wait till the member receives credit. If it is a program, join it if it interests you. If it is a search link, make a search if you are really looking for something. If it is a site support link, please show your support. Every little bit helps.

16. Online Payment Processors
PTR programs use online payment processors to pay members, among other methods. Signing up with online payment processors do not cost you money, but transactions to and from the payment processor may cost you a fee, which depends on each payment processor.

Please note that Stormpay and Moneybookers are no longer payment options in PTR programs as these payment processors no longer allow PTR programs to use its service.

You can read about the most common online payment processors below.
E-Gold: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-gold
Money Bookers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneybookers
Paypal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paypal

In addition to the above, some programs offer the following online payments system as well:
Alert Pay: http://www.alertpay.com

Members do not usually use Alertpay as a payment option in low payout sites due to the $1.00 fee per transaction. Lower transaction fees are charged depending upon the upgrades. Alert pay also offer E-gold to Alertpay transactions.


When deciding on a certain payment processor, members take many things into account, including;
- Convenience (able to use the funds for various other purchases online, ebay etc)
- How userfriendly the online payment system is
- Funding options including credit card and bank payments
- Transaction fees
- Whether it is the best online payment processor for investing purposes
- Being the only payment option that is open to members from a particular country
- Security Issues etc.

Irrespective which online payment processor you may use, please make sure to use a password that is difficult to guess which includes letters and numbers in no particular order. From time to time, you may receive emails from online payment processors such as paypal/ egold to log into your account, verify your account and for various other reasons. Please do not click on links sent in such mails as these mails are not sent by these payment processors. It is best to delete such mails unless you have made changes to your account and it needs verification.

17. What Is A Proxy?
A proxy server is, matter of fact, another PC or other hardware that is placed between you and the internet. It enables a network of PC's to connect to the internet through one central point and can be used for diffrent purposes , such as cashing websites, firewall and for restrictions. There are diffrent kinds of proxy servers. We will not go that deep here to explain all types of possible proxies and what they do, but concentrate on the two types which are the most likely to affect you.

Transparant Web Proxy
The most common one is the transparant proxy used by lots of Internet Service Providers (ISP). In order to save bandwith and to be able to serve their clients with fast loading websites, they use a proxy server for saving websites in the cache. That means, the first time a website is loaded by a client, it gets loaded from the source itself and then saved in the memory (cache) until the cache gets emptied next time. The next person who comes and requires the same webpage, the page will get loaded out of the cache memory. This will make the page load faster in general and it saves the ISP a fair bit of bandwith. You as a user do not have a choice if your ISP is using this software. If they do, you are connected through the transparant proxy, whether you like it or not. That is why this type of connection is also called a forced proxy. The system is closed for external use. No one else than clients of the ISP can connect to a transparant proxy. Most common software used for this is Apache HTTP Server (which is not always used as cache), Squid Cashing, Wingate etc.

Open Proxy
An open proxy is the one that has the bad name, thanks to the abuse of it. An open proxy will accept connections from any IP and will accept all types of connections. In most cases, abusers install an open proxy on other end-users machines who have no clue about it which most commonly happens after an infection with a computer virus or trojan. After that, they use the open proxy to connect to the internet. This means they will connect to the machine which runs the open proxy and connect from there to the internet. As you can imagine, this is normally only used by people trying to hide their identity, like spammers, or in the case of PTR, people who try to hide their country of origin.

How does it affect you?
In PTR, lots of advertising or sometimes even PTR sites, are restricted to certain countries only. But some members attempt to sign up with such sites by pretending to be from the acceptable countries. Most search engines for example pay only for traffic from specified countries. The same happens with PTP - the payment for valid hits depends mostly on the country of origin (tiers) which gives cheaters another reason to try and hide behind a proxy. As result, search engines and some PTP sites scan their visitors to see if a proxy is used. Because lots of them do not really know what a proxy is, they ban ALL kinds of proxies, including transparant ones, which are completely legal.

The diffrence between transparant and open proxy is very easy to determine. Both present themselves with 2 IP's when getting scanned. In the case of the transparant web proxy, both IP's will lead to the very same ISP. The 2 IP's of someone using an open proxy will lead to two diffrent ISP's and often, even to two diffrent countries.

18. Web Browsers & Security Of Your Computer
There are many browsers that members use in order to access the internet. Some of these include;
- Internet Explorer
- Firefox
- Mozilla
- Opera
- Netscape
- Maxthon
- Crazy Browser
- Avant Browser

Different browsers are used by members for various reasons;
- To prevent pop ups
- Less likelyhood of getting virus, trojans etc.
- Convenience
- User friendly
- Excellent tools
- Multi tab feature
- Stability, security etc.

It is very important to keep your computer as safe as possible, as connecting to the internet has the danger of your computer being affected by virus, trojans etc. The following are links you might find useful to help you clean your computer of virus, trojans, spyware etc.

Trend Micro online scan - Scans your computer for viruses and spyware.
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Online trojan scan - Scans your computer for trojans.
http://www.windowsecurity.com/trojanscan/

Ad-Aware - Ad-Aware Personal provides advanced protection from known data-mining, aggressive advertising, trojans, dialers, malware, browser hijackers, and tracking components.
http://www.lavasoft.com/software/adaware/

Spybot - Search & Destroy - Spybot S&D is an application to scan for spyware, adware, hijackers and other malicious software.
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

AVG Anti-Virus - AVG Free Edition is an anti-virus protection tool. Automatic updates, real-time protection, e-mail scanner, low system resource requirements.
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5

ZoneAlarm - ZoneAlarm is a firewall that stops hackers from getting into your PC.
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/comp...=US&lang=en

19. What Are Banner Impressions?
Banners are a form of advertising on the internet. You can see a lot of banners being displayed on various sites, including in Paid To Read (PTR) sites. In a PTR site for example, you will see banners being displayed in the site as well as in the paid-to-click areas. Banners are usually linked to a site, so that when you click on the banner, it takes you the webpage being advertised. The standard size of the banner that PTR sites usually display is 468 x 60. The results you get by advertising through banner impressions can depend on the banner. If the banner you are using is colourful (not too gaudy though), attractive and has some important information about the site being advertised, it will tend to get a better response than unattractive banners. All PTR sites usually have their own designed banners for the use of members. You will find them in the referral link area. Some members prefer to create their own banners with their own touch and own words.

If you have redeemed or purchased banners for a week or one month, the Program Owner will set your banner advertisement in such a way that your banner will no longer be displayed in the site after that date. If the purchase/ redemption is for a certain number of impressions, for example, 1000 impressions, after your banner is shown 1000 times, it will expire. By checking the "My Ad Stats" page, you will be able to see which site you are promoting, whether it has expired, how many times it has been displayed etc.

If you are using a banner available on site for promoting that site please check the referral links page and make sure whether you can copy the banner URL from the site or not. Some sites allow you to hotlink (direct link) the same banner URL for advertising, but some specifically mention that the member needs to host the banner and then promote as they do not want it to be a burden on the site bandwidth.

20. What is an Affiliate Page?
Please note that this tutorial is regarding Affiliate Pages offered by Paid-To-Read (PTR) programs.

There are quite a lot of Paid-To-Read (PTR) programs that offer Affiliate Pages to members. An Affiliate Page basically, is a page offered by the program, which you can purchase and have your links and banners in it. Usually, Affiliate Pages are sold for a duration of 3 Months, 6 Months, 9 Months, 12 Months.

Affiliate Pages usually offer banners for clicking as well as side links. An example of what Affiliate Pages offer is as follows:
* Get Paid to Promote it
* 1 x Top Banner
* 1 x 1/10 Cent PTC
* 2 x1 Point PTC
* 10 Side Links

To explain the above advertising offered:
- Get Paid To Promote: Each time someone views your affiliate page, you will receive credit. Each time does not mean a member can click on your Affiliate Page over and over again and you earn from it. Affiliate Pages, like PTP pages are usually 24 hour unique clicks. This means, if the same member clicks your Affiliate Page twice within 24 hours, you will only be credited for the first visit. That is what is meant by 24 hours unique clicks. Affiliate Pages offer 10 cents, 20 cents, 25 cents etc per 1000 unique clicks (hits). The amount offered varies from program to program. The cash you earn from promoting the Affiliate Pages is directly credited to your account. Your upline will only earn from these earnings if the Program Owner has set it up to credit.

- 1 x Top Banner: You can promote your favourite program in the top banner area. When a member clicks on your top banner, you earn bonus credits. Bonus credits are usually calculated and added to your account monthly. The amount paid for bonus credits is not usually a fixed amount and vary depending upon the revenue earned from the Affiliate Pages by the program. However, not all programs offer these bonuses for clicking the top banner. "Additional Credit" also means if you promote a PTP link as the top banner, you will receive credit if a member clicks it.

- Other PTC banners offered to be displayed: You can promote paid to promote (PTP) or referral links of the programs you belong to cover the PTC's offered to you with the purchase of the Affiliate Page.

- Side Links: These are usually text links you will find either on the left or right hand corner of the affiliate page.

Some Affiliate Pages offer a bottom rotating banner as well, but the member does not earn any extra credit if anyone clicks it unless you are promoting a PTP link in which case, you will receive credit in the PTP program you are promoting.


How to promote Affiliate Pages:
- Affiliate Pages can be promoted in PTP page rotators.
- You can redeem your earnings/ points in other programs.
- Purchase advertising such as PTP rotator views from other programs.
- Promote in the PTC sections of programs.
- The program promotes your affiliate pages in the program itself. Usually, there is a separate section called "Member Pages" or "Member's Affiliate Pages" or simply "Affiliate Pages" where the members of the program usually check them out and click on your Affiliate Page and banners.

Important to remember if you are purchasing PTP rotator views/ advertising:
- Before promoting the Affiliate Page, consider how it costs to promote against the amount you are paying to advertise it. If the Affiliate Page is offering only 10 cents for 1000 unique visits, there is no point in spending 20 - 25 cents to purchase 1000 unique visits to your Affiliate Page as it will be a loss. Usually, bulk purchasing Affiliate Page views is cheaper/ more profitable.

- When purchasing lots of advertising for your Affiliate Page, please take the duration of your Affiliate Page into consideration. If you purchase a three months Affiliate Page and your Affiliate Page expires before your purchased advertising does, your advertising money will be wasted as you will not receive credit for promoting an expired Affiliate Page.

Advantages of an Affiliate Page:
- An advantage over an Affiliate Page verses a PTP page is that it does not have to be rotated only at approved sites. Therefore, you do not have to check first to see whether the Affiliate Page is approved or not before advertising.

- By promoting your affiliate page, you get the opportunity to build up your referral network.

- By promoting your PTP links in the Affiliate Page, you get the opportunity of earning in those programs, which may help to offset the initial cost of your Affiliate Pages. If the Affiliate Page is set up in such a way that outside members can also click on the banners, then this is additional income as well. However, there are only a few Program Owners offering this setup. Usually, the banners are only clickable by the members of the program you purchase the Affiliate Page from.


The duration of the affiliate page, the amount paid for 1000 unique views and the advertising that is offered for affiliate pages vary from program to program. So it is better to check the amount offered by the program for the 1000 unique views, advertising offered and amount that will cost you to purchase an Affiliate Page before actually purchasing it.

21. What is a "Personal Page"?
This tutorial covers "Personal Pages" offered by Paid-To-Read (PTR) programs.

More and more paid-to-read programs are now offering what is called a "personal page", which is sometimes also called "personal PTC page" in some programs. These are pages you can purchase and promote your referral links or paid-to-promote (PTP) links. Members of the program earn extra cash/ points or both by clicking on your banners placed in your personal page. Only your banners will be displayed in the Personal Page you purchase.

Usually, Personal Pages are sold for a duration of 1, 3, 6, 12 months. An example of advertisements that will contain in your Personal Page are as follows:

2 Rotating Banners for the duration of your page
1 PTC valued at .1 Cent
2 PTC valued at .05 Cent
3 PTC valued at 10 Points
2 PTC valued at 5 Points

The PTC banners placed in the Personal Pages are clickable once every 24 hours for the duration of the Personal Page. That means, if you purchase a Personal Page for a duration of one month, you will receive unlimited clicks on the banners you are promoting till your Personal Page expired one month after your Personal Page is up and running.

Some programs offer Personal Pages only for a limited number of clicking instead of a duration such as 1, 3, 6, 12 months.

Some programs also offer to place more banners in your Personal Page for a little extra money. For example, if a program is offering a maximum of 5 banners in your Personal Page and you would like to place about 1-2 more banners in your Personal Page, you can purchase them from the advertising area of the program.

How to promote your Personal Page:
You do not need to promote your Personal Page unlike Affiliate Pages or PTP links. The program promotes them for you by placing your purchased Personal Page in a separate section called "Personal Pages" or "Personal PTC Pages". The members of the program who are interested in earning a little extra will visit the section and click your banners.

Difference between a Personal Page and PTP Link:
When you promote your PTP link, you receive cash or credits for it. But there is no cash or credits offered for the promotion of Personal Pages.

22. Purchasing Advertising From A Site - What & How To
There are some members out there who are confused as to what should be filled in when they purchase advertising. The following is a small tutorial, which we hope you will find useful.

1. When Purchasing Paid Email Advertising:
If you wish to purchase advertising from a site, click on the link that you will find on the site called "Advertisers" or "Advertise". When you click on the link, you will be taken to a page listing out the type of advertising available to choose from. The type of advertising you will usually find in sites are advertising packages (ad packages), email advertising (paid emails), paid to promote, banner impressions, top/ bottom sponsorship ads, paid to click, contest paid to clicks, rotator views etc.

When you click on the paid advertising you would like to purchase, it will take you to a page where you are given certain instructions on how to pay for it and what details you should submit.

- If it is one ad you wish to purchase, then leave the quantity as 1
- Click on the payment option you wish to pay with. For example, if you wish to pay with E-Gold, click on the E-Gold button. You will be taken to the E-Gold page where you need to mention your E-Gold number, Passphrase and the turning number. You can then review the details and if everything is in order, then confirm the payment.
- After the payment is made, you need to fill in the details, for example:

Assuming that you are purchasing a paid email, the following is a screenshot of what the page looks like where you need to fill in and submit details of your purchased ad.
(IMG:http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/9987/paidadpurchasingbh3.jpg)

Accordingly, what you could fill in the above areas is given below.

Your Name / Username:
If you are a member of the site you are purchasing the ad from, please state your username (the one you used to sign up with). If you are not a member, you need to mention x23 and your preferred username. If not, you will not be able to check the statistics of your email ad. For example, if you would like to use the username: newadvertiser, you need to mention x23newadvertiser. Then you will be able to track the statistics of your email ad by replacing the XXXXX in the link provided by the site with your username, i.e newadvertiser.

Your Email
You need to mention your email address here. Once your ad is processed, you will receive an email from the program saying that your ad has been processed.

Payment Method
Select the payment method you used in order to pay for the ad from the drop down menu.

Transaction ID / Batch Number
You need to copy the Transaction ID/ Batch Number once you send the payment and paste it in this box.

Then comes the area you need to give your ad details:
Ad #1 Details:
Your Comments & Notes
Whatever you wish to mention here, not some jibberish, but something relevant. Some members post notes to the PO. Whatever you mention here will NOT be shown in the ad.

Ad Description
You can mention the name of the site or "New Program Alert" (if it is a grand new program that is just launched) or whatever you wish. It will appear as the SUBJECT of the paid email.

Paid-Link URL
The link to the site you wish to promote. In other words, the URL.

Ad Text (Everything you want displayed with your ad)
This is the text (body) of the email. You can say something about the program you wish to promote here.

At the very bottom of the page, you will find something like this:
Check this box if you have submitted this form truthfully, and you have made the payment for the advertisement.

Please make sure to check the box.


2. When Purchasing Paid To Click or Banner Ads:
If it is paid to click ads or banner impressions you wish to purchase, the page you need to fill in the details will look like this: (IMG:http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/5888/bannerpurchasingxn2.jpg)

Fill in the details as above. The only difference is that when you purchase a paid advertisement, you need to type the ad text whereas when advertising banner impressions and/or paid to clicks, you need to give the banner URL where it says banner address.

As done above, once you have paid and filled all the details, check the box where it says you submitted the form truthfully before submitting the details.

23. Redeeming For Advertising - What & How To:
1. Redeeming For A Paid Email
If you wish to redeem your points or cash for paid advertisements, you need to click on the link that says "Redemptions" or "Your Redemptions". Do not click on the Advertise or Advertiser link as you are not purchasing the advertisements. Instead, you are redeeming points or cash that you have earned by clicking on links of the site.

When you click on the redemptions link, you will be taken to a page listing out all the redemptions. If you see any ad offers in bold or bold and underlined, it means that you have sufficient cash and/or points to redeem for that particular item. Let us assume that you wish to redeem your earnings for a 1/4c solo email to 500 members which costs you $1.97, when you click on the link, you will be taken to a page that looks like the following:
(IMG:http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/7093/paidadredemptionce8.jpg)

If you wish to redeem for only one 1/4c solo email to 500 members, leave the quantity as "1". The details to fill in are as follows:
Ad #1 Details:
Your Comments & Notes
Whatever you wish to mention here, not some jibberish, but something relevant. Some members post notes to the PO. Whatever you mention here will NOT be shown in the ad.

Ad Description
You can mention the name of the site or "New Program Alert" (if it is a grand new program that is just launched) or whatever you wish. It will appear as the SUBJECT of the paid email.

Paid-Link URL
The link to the site you wish to promote. In other words, the URL.

Ad Text (Everything you want displayed with your ad)
This is the text (body) of the email. You can say something about the program you wish to promote here.


2. Redeeming For A Paid-To-Click Ad
If you wish to redeem for a Paid-To-Click advertisement, click the link of the PTC redemption that interests you. Let us assume that you wish to purchase a 1 point PTC ad for 500 clicks, then you need to click on that ad offer. When you do, you will be taken to a page that looks like the below screenshot:
(IMG:http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/6/bannerredemptionmb7.jpg)

If you wish to purchase only one PTC ad, leave the quantity as "1".
The details to fill in are as follows:
Ad #1 Details:
Your Comments & Notes
Whatever you wish to mention here, not some jibberish, but something relevant. Some members post notes to the PO. Whatever you mention here will NOT be shown in the ad.

Ad Description
You can mention the name of the site or "New Program Alert" (if it is a grand new program that is just launched) or whatever you wish. It will appear as the SUBJECT of the paid email.

Paid-Link URL
The link to the site you wish to promote. In other words, the URL.

Banner URL
The link (URL) to the banner you wish to promote.


When redeeming for advertisements, you will not be required to fill the username with a x23, the payment method, the transaction ID/ batch number or email address as you are redeeming for the ad using your cash and/or points and not actually paying money from your payment processor. Only members can redeem their cash and/or points for advertisements. So the PO already has your details such as email address and username when you make the redemption. Also, when redeeming for advertisements, there is no box to check to say that you submitted the form truthfully. Once your ad is processed, you will receive an email from the site stating that your ad has been processed.

24. Conclusion:
The PTR industry has never been a "get rich quick scheme". If you are looking for a way to earn a lot of money quickly, the PTR industry is not for you. In order to earn money, you have to put in a lot of time, energy, effort and patience into it, in addition to some money for promoting and securing a downline. There are members who earn a few hundred dollars a month from PTR's, but it has been a slow process for them as well, first earning a few dollars at a time and then gradually increasing their earnings.

Hopefully this guide helped you to gain more knowledge about the PTR Industry. If you come across a new member who has questions and you happen to know the answers, please take the time to help them out. Remember, you were once a "newbie" yourself.