One of the leading internet marketing crazes that currently attracts a lot of beginners is to begin with Pay-to-Click Sites (PTC). And that is what I did. First, let me elaborate on what PTC web sites are. A Pay-to-Click site pays you some money for merely watching a short advertisement, ordinarily lasting around 30 seconds or so. Each time you see an advertisement, a bit of money is deposited to your account; ordinarily, this has to collect to a set total (normally roughly five bucks) before you can get it out of your account. In addition, Pay-to-Click websites often have some additional options for people who are members, and nearly all offer referral bonuses.

Whether you collect your referrals yourself or purchase them, when those people view ads, you get around 50% of the money they make. Hence, if you make $0.01 from viewing an ad, you'll get half a cent from PTC members you referred. It sounds like kind of a slow way to go, but imagine what can happen if you have hundreds of people joining through your referral link. Some of these programs also provide a number of special options to their members, allowing for more money per click (usually for your referrals as well as yourself), more ads and more referrals. These additional membership offers tend to be high-priced, but many are going to generate more cash over time.

To give you an idea of how this works, let's assume you sign up with a Pay-to-Click site that displays up to f adverts. You become a member and manage to recruit a thousand people. You earn a cent for each click, as do your referrals. And so if you watch all four adverts and all of your referrals click on all 4 adverts, that's a total of 40 dollars. Appears pretty awesome, right? That would be a decent sum of money to get every day, doesn't it?

Well, the terrible truth is, virtually all Pay-to-Click websites are frauds. They are basically pyramid schemes. They are called "pyramids" because only those people at or near the top get any cash, while those lower the pyramid normally end up getting zero. For Example, if 10 individuals each invest ten bucks, that's a total of one hundred dollars. The top person may return 15 dollars to four people and retain the remainder for himself, with nothing disbursed to all the rest of the members. How can they do is? It's easy. For one, they talk you into becoming a member and buying a few referrals (oftentimes bots, not even humans). They then pay out with cash that other members have paid in for their memberships and referrals. The cash from advertisements does not cover their payout's, especially since a lot of the referrals you can pay for are bots. Inescapably, they run out of potential members and people stop investing, leaving folks who weren't among the first to join losing money. If you are one of the ones close to the top, in from the start, there's a good chance of seeing some cash, but it is not balanced by the risks.

Personally, I would recommend avoiding PTC sites, because the good ones are going to make you very little money and the PTC sites that generate big money are usually scams, leading to someone losing out.

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