Beware of cheat links. They can be placed anywhere in the email. So READ the subject lines if you don't apply filters I suggested in a post to your inbox to avoid them. Another tip about subject lines is look for the word LIMITED. Those are the links you want to click first. My suggesting the applying of a filter is nothing more than that. A suggestion, if you wish to not do so that is your option. I'm sorry if this suggestion offends anyone but I like to help people and if that's a problem too bad.
If you use Internet explorer and are on dialup there is a faster way to do PTR. Download firefox. This allows you to use many tabs. And open up more than one link in a window at a time. (Great for autosurf sites too. ) Some PTR sites only allow one link to be opened at a time. Some don't. You will have to work out which ones do and do not.
The way to use firefox is, you click a link it opens firefox. Then click new tab (LOOKING at that blank new tab) click the next link. This will open up the next link in the new window/tab you are looking at.
Ignore the links ending in AOL unless you are on AOL. Also ignore the links that don't start with the site name. Those aren't the paid ones but the actual site you are visiting. If you wish, you may use that link to revisit the site unpaid.
Searches, if you didn't click the search keyword when you signed up but are getting search ads, you do NOT have to search. You also don't have to click those emails. But my thoughts on this are, they are in your box, click them get paid and don't do the search. You didn't sign up to search yet get the mails, it's free money to you.
Points, are usually converted or exchanged for ads. If a webmaster is too lazy to make a points keyword you can simply ad a filter to your email to weed out these ads if you truly don't want them. I like to earn points because I exchange them for ads, banners, ptcs.
PTC, if you have no downline and you don't search this is yet another way to speed up your income level. You log into the site and go to the 'paid to click' section. This is just like reading the emails but you just click banners and wait for the timer to go off.
PTS, these are paid to search links. You click them, make a search and you and the person you searched for are both paid for it.
PTR, this means Paid to Read.
PTP, Is paid to promote webpages. Every time your page is viewed you are paid a very small amount of money. Waste of bandwidth in my opinion(for the company doing it) but for some odd reason this seems to be a big thing and is being promoted more so.
Autosurf, is good for easy cash and or points. Easier with the power of DSL and firefox. If it's not on manual I don't really think it's good to place your own webpages on. As people are doing just as I suggest, set it up and ignore it. You want to waste your points/money on pages that are going by ignored go right ahead.
Trivia and other contest, these are a great way to earn extra cash and or points. I find it fun to take part in them even if only a tiny bit is the wager.
Paid to Sign ups, these are good if you are looking for new sites to join. You get an extra bonus in your account and if you don't like the site, you have to remain a member though for a certain time limit. ( I personally have never signed up for one of these. Ever.) Sometimes called PTSU or PTS depending upon your webmaster.
Tips and How to's on PTR emails can be found here
How to complete a paid to read email search: When you get the email, you click the link as you normally would. Only instead of reading the page and waiting for the timer to go off. You click a link on the page that loaded or you simply type a word in the search box. After that you wait for the results to load, then you click another link on that page. Thus completing a search, you have reached the new page you were paid to get to.
These webpages are the work of me, email me if you wish to use any of the information on your own pages, or post on a forum, please be so kind as to ask, after all it is my hard work. I would prefer if you just posted the link to this page rather than copy it. Thank you.
