This article will explain the downfall of PTC sites and attempts
to detail what can be done to make PTC advertising valuable
once again.
The idea of paid to click -in theory- is a
great idea. It, like the paid to read sites, intend to allow
a direct channel to a market of willing participants. In exchange
for a few pennies, advertisers can have a willingly captive
audience to visit their site (nearly free traffic) and consider
their offer.
There is a very small handful of websites left in this market
that have survived the downfall of the industry. And even those
do not offer quality advertising due to the same reasons that
caused the demise of 99% of all PTC sites.
In a word: cheaters. Cheaters were the #1
reason for the collapse, and still today make advertising on
PTC sites largely uneffective and a complete waste of time and
money. This is the reason that this great idea has failed to
take off like it should have. After quick testing and ZERO conversions
on other PTC sites, advertisers will quickly know that something
is amiss.
Back in the day, thousands of paid to click and paid to read
sites popped up around the net. Today, there are still hundreds
of tiny, wanna-be sites lying around, but none of them make
money. They are more a labor of love for the owners who hope
to one day make it big.
The problem with 99.99% of those site owners is that they know
nothing of security and fighting fraud. They rely on software
vendors to secure the products they sell. In fact, SmoothLinks
is based on a script that the authors claim is 100% secure and
"un-cheatable."
We, however, know better.
The cold hard fact is that when we acquired this site; it had
hundreds of cheaters who would drain an advertisers credits
within mere hours! These are largely from auto-clicker scripts
that any would-be cheater can download and run with little to
no intelligence required. There are also several other methods
cheaters use to earn credits --all of which hurt the advertiser.
The secondary reason most PTC/PTR sites do not convert and
provide no advertiser value is because they either do not "geo-target"
or their geo-targeting is still flawed in that a majority of
the user base does not even read English!
Our methods of identifying cheaters also works 99.99% effectively
to weed out those that cannot even read your ad. Other sites
are plagued by Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and other members
who know only how to sign up and earn click points --meaning
they will NEVER convert for your ad.
We have gone one step further in the fight against cheaters. Now,
our advertisers will still continue to receive fraudulent clicks
from cheaters, but you will not be charged for them. We have developed
our system in such a way that cheaters 'think' they are earning
when they are NOT. So, they keep clicking and helping your traffic stats.
With our checks and balances, we are able to weed these members
out and verify that each clicking participant is capable of
considering your offer.
SmoothLinks is here to change the dying trend.
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