PTC websites: Are they really useful?

People these days are looking for various online source of income but its very rare to find a genuine second source.

Currently Paid to Click or PTC websites are in a boom and people, mostly youngsters flock to these websites as a source of income. Lets check out what these PTC websites mean?

1. What is a PTC website?

Paid to Click websites generally pay their members for clicking on ads which their advertisers pay them for. Its kind of revenue sharing website where a particular ad revenue is shared among its members. People are motivated to click and view the ad for roughly 30 secs to get credited with the revenue amount which is between ($0.005 to $0.02).

2. Are these website membership paid?
Mostly all website registrations are free, but you are incentive to upgrade by paying a small amount and become premium member. Premium members are given more benefits than free members like low payout amount and more referrals.

3. How much can I earn?
Mostly you can earn as much as there are ads to be clicked per day. Average amount per day is mostly $0.05 at most reputed sites.

 4. What is a payout amount?
Payout amount is the minimum amount you will be paid. For most reputed sites payout amount is between $ 2 to $ 10.

5. How can I know which are reputed paying sites?
Do some google research before registering to a website. You will get reviews about PTC websites on various blogs available. Please check the comments. Sites with more than 3 years of service are generally good.

6. Can I advertise on such site?
Yes, you can advertise on such sites if you are looking for good traffic to your website. but don't expect any sales of your products. Such sites are only good enough to get traffic of people to your website.

7. Any recommended sites to start with?