How to get Direct Referrals and Traffic?

Making money with PTC sites is quite simple, no skills are required and it doesn’t take too much time to click some advertisement links. Although everyone makes money from the first day after signing up to a money maker site (let’s assume the site is legit), we must admit that it’s not a big deal to make a few cents per day that you earn clicking on your own. What really turns a PTC site into a good income source is the amount of referrals you have in your downline. By upgrading your membership your income increases significantly, too, but this means you have to invest money. For the time being let’s stick to free stuff. Try to get as many Direct Referrals as possible. For some people this is the most difficult part of the whole thing: how to get Direct Referrals? Let’s face it, it’s not easy, indeed. But if you know how to do it, everything is much easier.

• Make your own website or blog. This takes the most effort on your side, but this works best especially in the long run. There are many ways to set up a website or a blog for free. Even if you have never made anything like this before, just make a search on the Internet there is a lot of resource you can make use of. You don’t need to be a skilled coder to be able to make your own site. Personally I recommend to use WordPress, it’s free, reliable and very popular. You only have to sign up, choose a theme, and start posting. It’s that simple. The more useful posts you make, and the more unique your site is, the more successfully your site will be and the more visitors you will have.
• Traffic Exchanger Sites: On these sites you can promote your referrer link or your site for free. You earn credits by visiting other peoples’ sites, in exchange those people visit your site. I think EasyHits4u is the most popular traffic exchange site that ever existed. Simple to use and very effective. The site is online since 2003, by now more than 600.000 signed up members. There are approximately 1000-2000 members surfing in every second there, so your page is shown to a large number of people throughout the day. As a welcome bonus you get 50 credits when you register. Credits are earned by surfing the pages, and for your referrals activity. Referral system is 5-level deep for Regular Members and 6-level deep for Premium Members. The traffic exchange ratio is 1:1 with a 20 seconds timer or 2:1 with a 15 seconds timer. It’s up to you which timer you choose. Your account is credited with $0.30 for every 1000 surfed page (no matter whether is 20 or 15 sec timer), and $0.10 for your every referral that surfed 100 pages. The payout minimum is $3, and is paid via PayPal or AlertPay. On every 25th page there’s a prize for you. Remember you have to push the “Claim Your Prize” in order to get it.
  

• Traffic-Splash is also a very good Traffic Exchange program. For Standard Members the surf ratio is 3:1 with a 10 seconds timer per page, but don’t let this scare you away, because while you surf the pages you’ll get a plenty of bonuses. Every 15th page contains a bonus (credits or splash points) and every now and then there are pages that hide more prizes. Referrals can be gained too credits and splash points. You’ll be rewarded as follows: for surfing 100 pages a day you’ll get 1,000 text ads or 500 banner ads, for surfing 250 pages a day you’ll get 4,000 text ads or 2,000 banner ads or for surfing 500 pages a day you’ll get 7,000 text ads or 3,500 banner ads.

• TrafficG is online since 2000. It’s a very nice program, which offers 1:1 traffic surfing for free members. As a free member, you surf other members’ websites and stay on each one for at least 20 seconds to receive credit. If you upgrade to any of the reasonably priced paid levels, you only have to stay on the websites that you visit for about 15 seconds, which means you get to surf more sites in a shorter amount of time. There are 3 paid levels, starting at $6 for Power Surfer membership to $30 for Corporate membership. At the corporate membership level, you are given 2500 visits to your website each month whether you surf or not, and you get 1.5 credits per website visit instead of 1.

• Getting Referrals programs. There are plenty of sites out there where you can make deals with other members, meaning you sign up their programs if they sign up yours. You can try GetRef, the most popular of its kind.

• Social Networks. If you have an account at any Social Network and Bookmarking site (FaceBook, Twitter, MySpace), you can promote your referrer link or your site there. If you don’t have an account on these sites, it’s time to create one. Update your profile, submit your link, it’s a great possibility, thousands of people might see it.

• Forums. The other most obvious way to promote your link is by posting in forums. There are myriad of forums on the Internet about money making. Search for them, sign up, set up your signature (where it is allowed) to point to your site, and make useful posts. Thus many people will come to your site pretty soon. But never spam the forums. If you do, no one will be interested to come to your site, not to mention that you will get banned from the forum. There are forums where there are topics dedicated for Referrals Exchanging or Downline Building. Another great places to find Direct Referrals. Take a look at the Earnmoneyspace forum, there you have everything you need.