PTC, SafeLists, Traffic Automation

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I didn't know where to put this so I figured this was the best spot.

I've been looking into tons of sites lately, specifically from the standpoint of lessening workloads, and automating traffic with simple PHP tools. What I found is sort of alarming.

Most of ALL safelists (credit mailers) can be automated. As in, script checks gmail, filters out the credit link, fires up firefox, goes to url, waits, closes browser.

About 90% of "old-time" PTC type sites can be automated to sit on the click page, and click links all day. Some (like some of the bigger newer sites - Clix Sense for one) have poor cheat control methods, others simply haven't even considered this.

About 50% of the "newer" PTC sites can be automated with no need to do anything fancy. The rest "could" be automated with a De-Captcha service.


Things I have learned:
1) You won't make @%^ clicking links even if you click every available ad for a week straight.
2) If it can be done so easily, it is not worth advertising on these sites
3) Credit Mailer open and click rates are "fair", have yet to see any "action" taken on over 100k mailings, open and click rates are about 0.2 (100 per 50,000)
4) You can damn near automate every single credit based traffic, or ptc site on the internet.
5) The more you refer the more traffic you can earn/get, but its impossible to refer people when there is no value on either side of the equation.

Question is .. who else knows that?
#automation #ptc #safelists #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author Tashi Mortier
    Originally Posted by jminkler View Post

    Question is .. who else knows that?
    I hope everyone who uses common sense. I mean after all, how else can those sites sustain themselves? Some of them are no scams and pay out their members and still offer something like $ 4 for an exclusive e-mail to all 500.000 members.

    Of course, if only a few hundred open them and get paid 0.5 cents each that is sustainable.

    You should always know: You get what you pay for.

    That clicking on a link and waiting a certain time is something that can easily be automated should be clear in the first place.
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    • Profile picture of the author jminkler
      Originally Posted by Tashi Mortier View Post

      I hope everyone who uses common sense. I mean after all, how else can those sites sustain themselves? Some of them are no scams and pay out their members and still offer something like $ 4 for an exclusive e-mail to all 500.000 members.

      Of course, if only a few hundred open them and get paid 0.5 cents each that is sustainable.

      You should always know: You get what you pay for.

      That clicking on a link and waiting a certain time is something that can easily be automated should be clear in the first place.
      Well the other thing I was thinking, is it worth it to just get the traffic for say, alexa ranking? Signups or not ..
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      • Profile picture of the author Tashi Mortier
        Well, you could simply push your site a bit in the Alexa rankings, yes.

        But what good does that? In my eyes this is almost fraud, if you do it to raise the perceived value of your website.
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  • Profile picture of the author msaqib301
    thank yo for sharing !! keep update us
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