What
Do These Terms Mean, GPTR, PTR, PTC, PTS and PTP.
GPTR and PTR- Terms
are the abbreviation for GET PAID TO READ and
PAID TO READ. This term is used for the
recieving of email where you must click on a
link in the email to get paid. Once the
clicked on link opens, usually a page with a
timer at the top will be displayed. As soon
as the timer has counted down, a confirmation
text will appear notifying you that you have
been paid. Sometimes you will have to click
an additional link after the timer has
counted down to get paid. Make sure and read
the text where the counter was displayed
before closing out the page, it will inform
you if you have been paid or if you need to
click an additional link. The emails will
often times contain several links you can
click on. Each site will set up these emails
differently. Read the email carefully to find
the paid link. You may encounter cheat links
and Captcha codes. These are explained below.
PTC - Term is the
abbreviation for PAID TO CLICK. These are
links that are found within the site, usually
under a link that says, PTC. Find the PTC
link and click it to bring up the PTC page.
On this page you will find links and banners
that you will get paid for when you click on
them. Usually these links will have timers at
the top of the page. Once the timer counts
down, you will receive a text notification
that you have been paid. Sometimes you will
have to click an additional link after the
timer has counted down to get paid. Make sure
and read the text where the counter was
displayed before closing out the page, it
will inform you if you have been paid or if
you need to click an additional link.
PTS - Term is the
abbreviation for PAID TO SEARCH. This term is
used for email that contains a link that
requires searching. It is not a link that you
just let load, get paid and then close out.
The advertiser for this link will not get
paid unless you do a complete search. If you
do not do a complete search and the
advertiser is not geting paid, they will quit
advertising....resulting in no paid links for
you. A valid
search is when you click on the link in the
email and a page comes up with search terms.
You then need to pick a search term from this
page and click on it which will give you a
search result page, pick a search result
link, click it and let it load.....you have
now done a valid search. If you do not do
valid searches, the sites that provide search
emails usually stop sending you paid email.
PTP
- Term is the abbreviation for PAID TO
PROMOTE. Most sites offer this option
only if you have paid to upgrade your
membership. A PTR site will collect
advertisements and list them on a page. A
member of their site can post (promote) this
page and when someone clicks on it, they will
receive a small amount of cash or credit.
Sorry, I have never done Paid To Promote and
can not offer any further information.
Am
I On A Proxy?
I upgraded from regular dial up to high
speed dial up, not realizing I was on a Proxy server
and my membership was deleted from at least 4 good
sites that I had some referrals on. Don't let this
happen to you!
A proxy server is
used when networking computers together, so if
you are reading paid email at work or from linked
computers you are probably on a proxy server.
High speed dial up Internet connections also use
proxy servers. If you are using high speed, turn
off the high speed to read the email. You can
check if you are on a proxy server at this link Proxy-Test. If you get caught using a proxy server
after the site has specified that no proxy is
allowed, your account will be deleted, usually
without warning or an explanation. The 'nicer'
sites will send out a warning email telling you
that you are using a proxy.
What
Are Cheat Links, Cheatbot Codes And Captcha Codes?
Do not click on cheat links. If the Cheatbot
code is not complete, refresh the page. Your
membership can be deleted!
An important thing
you should know is that most sites have cheatbot
codes and cheat emails. The cheatbot codes are
pictures of numbers and you must click on the
correct set of numbers to proceed. It is
important not to click the matching number until
all numbers have loaded. Clicking on the wrong
number more than once can get your account
deleted. You will have to check each individual
site to see how many times you are allowed to
'accidentally' click a wrong code before being
deleted. It is also important that if the codes
do not match any of the choices, to refresh the
page...DO NOT CLICK IF THERE IS NOT A MATCHING
NUMBER. This assures the site that there is
actually a human reading the email and not a
robot program. A cheat email will tell you NOT to
click on a link in that e-mail. These cheat links
are usually at the bottom of the email, but some
sites will send out an email with nothing but the
cheat code. Read everything carefully unless you
want to get your account deleted. If you
accidently click on a cheat email, you will need
to notify the webmaster immediately to let them
know. Most of these email programs use an
invisible cheat link that is only readable by a
robot. If you are not using a robot, you do not
have to worry about clicking on one of these
'invisible' links. A Captcha Code requires that
you type a correct combination of letters and or
numbers in a provided space to continue to the
next page. If the code is correct, you will be
directed to the next page. If the code is
incorrect, the same page will load again with a
notification that the code entered was incorrect
and it will provide you with a new Captcha code.
You usaully get three tries to get this code
correct. Some sites will lock your account after
three incorrect tries and send out an email that
requires that you click on an activation link to
unlock your account.
Site Inbox
Email And Site Inbox
If you are going to choose the
option of send to your email address, I recommend
signing up for a new email account just for this
purpose. The best email program for this is gmail
(Google). To use the Site Inbox, you must go to
the site and sign in. Then look for the Inbox
link and click on it. You will see a list of
links with a check mark next to each link. This
is your Site Inbox and the links are your paid
email. Check out the Site Inbox page....it's
pretty easy to use, easy to understand and almost
all Site Inboxes are identical. I prefer using
the Site Inbox only. Not all of the emails made
it to my email program, the Site Inbox assures
that you never miss a paid email. Some Email
accounts also have a limit on how many emails you
can receive in a given time. Using the Site Inbox
also keeps your email account from going over
it's limit.
How To Do
Referrals
Getting paid to click on links is great, but
getting paid for someone else clicking on links is
even better!
After signing up for a paid
email site, you will get a referral link. Really,
you will...and you will find it under a link that
says Referral. What are referrals? When someone
clicks on your referral link and signs up, you
will get paid a percentage of that person's
future activity and clicks on the site. It is
usually called a downline and your downline, or
referred persons, will be displayed on your
Earnings Page. Sounds great, but how do you get
referrals......by copying the codes from the
referral page and pasting them onto a 'new' page
or site. This new page will need visitors, so now
you will need to advertise the link. The most
successful way to get referrals is to get a free
website and paste all your codes on it....then
advertise that page....just like mine. There is a
link on my main page that will take you to
several free webhosts. If you are new to webpage
building, make sure the site has a webpage
builder tool. Also make sure that advertising is
allowed and try to find one with a higher
bandwidth that will allow more visitors. Do not
over advertise your webpage by listing it on too
many sites at one time....if you exceed the
allowed bandwidth, your visitors will just get an
error message and will not be able to view your
webpage! You can also advertise a single referral
link on another PTR site.....using some of those
accumulated points:). Sounds too easy, depends on
your experience....this can get confusing for a
newbie and it does require some hard work!
Let's find your personal
referral page on your selected PTR site by
signing into your site and clicking the referral
link. A page will open that will look similar to
this:
Your Personal Referral Link:
Text Link: Lisa's Cat Lover's Pages
Banner Link: 
Copy these codes....highlight
the stuff in the white box, right click to copy (
or use Ctrl & C). If you have IE7 or Firefox,
opening 2 tabs to do the copying and pasting is
the easiest. If not, find your notepad on your
computer and click on it. Paste the text in the
notepad. The text code is easy, but usually the
site gives you at least 2 different banners.
Select the banner code you like best and paste
that code in your notepad. Save this document and
give it a name you will recognize and put the
saved notepad document somewhere on your computer
where you can find it. When you are ready to
advertise, you will need to find the saved
notebook file and copy and paste the codes.
It is best to use the text code
on webpages that you create that contain several
referral links from many sites. The banners take
too long to load and most of your visitors will
move on and close out the window before all the
banners show up! The text links will load quickly
and you are more likely to get sign-ups. Giving a
brief and honest description of the site is a big
plus!
The banner links are great for
use as advertising on PTR sites. Choose the PTR
site you want to advertise your refferal link on.
Sign into this site and click the Redeem or
Redemption link. I have the best luck with the
Paid To Click and the Banner Links. Choose the
type of advertising you want (the link should be
highlighted and clickable, if not, you do not
have enough cash or points to choose this ). Once
you have clicked on the link, you will come to a
page that asks you to list your advertisement
information. If there is only one space to fill
in the link, you are in luck and you can simply
paste the entire code in the box. If there are
two seperate boxes for the Site URL and the
Banner URL, you would be better off using your
personal referral link only (see above, the top
white box link). Where the ad asks for a
description, use the name of the site and paste
your personal referral link in the Site URL box.
Leave the Banner URL box empty.
The webmaster should let you
know when your advertising has been posted. You
will be able to view your advertising by signing
into the site and then clicking on the link that
says Advertising Stats. Get ready for a possible
disappointment....if you get 1 or 2 referrals,
you did great! It takes a lot of advertising,
patience and time to build a large
downline/referral.
Do I Need
Virus And Spyware Protection To Do Paid To Read?
To Earn And Get Paid...No.....To Protect
Your Computer...Yes
It Would Be A Very Good
Idea!!!!!!!!! I very rarely find a problem, but
when I do....I'm glad I have protection!
I Never
Received My Sign Up Email
Oh boy, can this be agitating after you took
days to figure out what site you wanted to sign up
with!
You found a site that looked
fantastic and decided to sign up. You entered
your sign up email in the box and waited for the
email to arrive....but it never did! Yep, this
happens. You can do two things, try to sign up
again or contact the webmaster. I usually find
both of these to be useless! If you get a
response from the webmaster, it's usually because
your email client blocked the email. Try again
after 48 hours using a different email address.
If you still don't get a sign up email, ??????, I
have no idea, but this has happened to me! I
stomp my feet in discouragement , then foget it,
move on and find another site.
My Paid
Email Page Is Giving Me An Error Saying That The Page
Cannot Be Found
This is one of the most
frustrating things I have run across. Sometimes
the domain name expires and it takes up to two
weeks for them to renew it and get the site up
and running again. Wait it out for a couple of
weeks and keep trying every few days. If the link
is still not working, it's highly likely that the
site has gone 'belly up' or closed because of
lack of funds. 'Did I just loose all my
earnings?', you may be asking yourself. The
simple answer is yes! If you are new to a site,
don't wait too long to cash out until you are
comfortable that the site is stable. You can
usually tell when a site is running into trouble,
because the paid e-mail sent will start to
decrease and you will start seeing a lot more
'lower' paying links. This means that the site is
likely trying to stay afloat, but if it is a site
that does not have several other sites...it could
well mean that it is going downhill fast! Don't
panic, just make sure you cash out often, instead
of letting your funds grow. I have lost $1.00 or
$2.00 quite often because a site has closed. It
can be devastating, because it takes so long just
to make that $1.00. Time to move on to the next
promising site!
I
Cashed Out, But The Site Never Paid Me
Yep, that has happened to the best of us!
Before signing up
for a site, you should always check to make sure
it is not on the 'Blacklist' of sites that do not
pay. Most sites that pay more than 10 cent per
link are scams. Here is a great link that lists
these blacklisted sites.
GPTBoycott.Com
- Fighting The Get-Paid-To... Scams!
Forums - An
Important Place To Go Before Signing Up For Any
Program, Especially One That Wants You To Invest
Money
I can not stress enough the
importance of forums when you are involved in any
money making opportunities on the Internet. A
forum is a general discussion site where you can
read several posts by people like you and me!!!
You can also join these sites and post your own
positive or negative experiences. I find these
forums more reliable than the blogs. There are so
many of these forums out there and when I need
quick answers, I go to a major search engine,
type in the name of the program with the word
forum. I just recently did this with a data entry
program that looked real promising, but wanted me
to invest $50.00. I simply typed the words 'data
entry forum' in the search box and knew within
two to three hours that I would not be investing
in what had looked like a really great money
making opportunity.
Get Paid
Forum - This is a forum or
discussion where you can view or post comments
from PTR Sites. I found this site courtesy of the
old 10-ads site and was able to find out the
information on a 'lost' paid e-mail site. Are you
having trouble with one of your PTR sites? These
forums are the best places to find out if you are
unique to a problem or not. You can also find
posts on the good and the bad PTR sites! You will
need to register with this site to use it, but do
not need to enter any personal information other
than your email address.
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