If you have even a remote interest in earning money on the internet, you have probably come across those pay per click programs that promise fabulous amounts of money just by clicking on ads and completing free offers. Are these things for real? Let’s take a look at exactly how they work and why you should avoid them.
The reality is that these pay per click websites are earning quite a bit of money off of their users. Sure, they might pay you a sum of money for doing the offers on their site, but rest assured that they are earning far more than you are! Between paid ads and the payment they receive for sending you to collect all those special offers, the pay per click sites are raking it in! And they have even more techniques to make money off of their unsuspecting users.
For example, have you ever read the Terms and Conditions contract that is on the website of one of these pay per click programs? If not, you should. You are almost guaranteed to find that they are not protecting you against anything. Your private information will become public knowledge and not only that, but possibly sold for yet more profit by the pay per click company or its affiliates!
While many pay per click sites really do pay up, they often have a payout limit that takes forever to reach so many people give up before getting to their goal of $50 or whatever the amount is and the company never needs to actually pay up. And when you do reach the payout level, there are far too many pay per click sites that actually refuse to pay!
That is the downside of the actual pay per click company, but what about the offers that you are completing? There are assorted different offers that you can fill out. Anything from simply filling out a form with your email address and name to ordering a product or a quote that you pay for and are then reimbursed for (on top of which you receive a bonus from the pay per click company).
If you fill out a form on a pay per click site, you are probably signing up for an email newsletter from the company that is paying. These are the lowest paying pay per click actions, ranging from fifty cents to a dollar. You are guaranteed to receive heaps of ads and junk mail to your inbox after signing up for one of these offers, and just deleting them all takes so much time that the piddly sum isn’t worth it!
As for the major pay per click offers where you sign up for a free trial period or a quote or other item that requires you to enter your credit card, stay far, far away. Too many people have been cheated out of their money by these companies when they were unable to cancel their membership when the trial period came up. These sites are usually designed so that you can’t quit even if you want to and they just keep charging your credit card, month after month.
Pay per click programs sound great, but they are often a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It is better to look for a real online job rather than waste your time with these programs.
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