April 10, 2009

Paid to Post

 PTP or Paid to Post sites pay their users for posting comments and starting discussions . The users can post on topics , share their opinions and take part in discussions . Such communities not only enriches the knowledge but also throws open a door to their users for earning some money . Many such sites are dedicated to a particular subject like debt , laptop , money , politics , etc . The bulk of the discussions carried out in the site dirrectly or indirectly addresses the issues . There are others though which are not dedicated to any particular subject as such but they do have , like all , predefined categories to discuss about the related subjects . Such communities helps to interact and allows sharing of knowledge between people living in different parts of the world .

 These sites are usually revenue sharing sites . They share a part of the revenue that the site s generate with its users for particiapting in the site . Now one may ask that where do they get the revenue from ? and why would anyone want share that ? The answer to these questions are pretty simple , they get their revenue from the advertisers for displaying their ads . These sites are usually filled with ads . The answer to the second question is actually another question , just think why would an advertiser advertise in these site ? The reason is traffic - internet traffic , ie the users of the site . More the number of users of the site , more they visit the site , more is the chance for the advertiser to reach out to the masses and sell his product . Now why would people visit a site if it has nothing in store for them ? Hence this idea of revenue sharing . I hope you have got the point . For the same reasons these sites usually do not turn out to be scams because in that case new users will be reluctant to join it if they hear that the site didn't pay its members and hence it will become impossible for the site to grow its network and eventually the site would cease to exist . So just to stay in the market they have to pay their users .

 These sites are not free from abuse by its users so they had to implement strict rules to fight with the abusers . People used the forum to say "hi" and "hello" to the other members just to get the money from the post . Some would create irrelevent discussions in unrelated categories . Still some others would post the same content again and again .  Many people took resort to such unfair means to make more money from these site . As a result soon these sites were overwhelmed by the number of fake posts and almost struggled to pay its members because of these abuses . Hence the only option left to them was to go stricter with the site rules which is quite fair too . 


 As I have mentioned that these sites are usually not scams for their own good , but in case you are a little unconvinced about any such site , just do a google search with keywords as "site_name + scam" where site_name is the name of the site about which you want to know . Go through the results you will know whether it is a scam or not . This technique actually applies to any site , you can search about any site in this way to know if it is a scam or not . The bottom line is if you work sincerely and honestly in these sites , you will get your payments . In this context I want to put a disclaimer here that in our real world there are always exceptions so don't get after me if any PTP site has scammed you . Whatever I have written is from my own experience and till now I haven't yet found a scam PTP site . But you may apply the above mentioned technique before you join and I think you will be fine . 

 Keep an eye on this blog to find a genuine list of PTP as well as other sites which actually pay . Check out my payment proofs as well . 

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