If you are interested in advertising your website, referral link or blog with Paid to Click (PTC) sites or you have existing advertising points or ad credits on your PTC sites (because of an upgrade) with them, here’s a guide on how to use them.
If you need traffic to your website, advertising or promoting it through PTC sites might be the thing for you. Take note, though, that most PTC members don’t actually stay on the advertiser’s websites because they usually just care about the timer ending and getting credited for the view/click. If you need to seriously advertise, you can use Bidvertiser or Adgitize for cheaper rates than Google AdWords.
The PTC sites that I’ll be featuring as examples are TheClickers and PPlinx. Most Aurora sites have the same process of using your advertising points or credits so this should help make it easy for you to use them up.
First of all, there are different advertising credits that you can use to promote your site on a PTC site:
For PPlinx:
For TheClickers:
Let me explain some of them that you would need to promote your site:
- Exchange Credits – You can use this to promote your links/websites through the PTC site’s Click Exchange, where members visit advertiser sites continuously and earn Exchange points by doing so.
- PTC Credits – You can use this to promote through the PTC site’s main Click Ads section, where members earn money by clicking on ads and viewing the advertiser’s website for a couple of seconds.
- Email Credits – You can use this to promote through the Read Email section of the PTC site. This is where you can write an introduction to your website first before having the members view your site.
- PTSU Credits – PTSU stands for Paid to Sign Up. You can use this credit to promote your affiliate links where you need people to sign up. This is manual, though. You need to manually accept or reject members who sign up under your PTSU ad to ensure that only valid signups get credited.
- Banner Credits – You can use this to promote your website using a 468×60 banner. No texts would be included, only the banner. So, make sure your banner’s attractive to make members click on it to actually visit your website. Lastly, you need to upload your banner to an image host like ShareAPic (where you can also earn money for views of your photos).
Now, let me show you how to use your PTC credits. The process is almost the same for the others. For this guide, I’ll be using TheClickers process and forms:
- Go to the My Account page. On the left menu, click on Manage Ads, as shown below.
- Click on the dropdown menu on the next page and select which one you want to manage. For this example, I selected PTC Ads. After making your selection, click on the Manage button.
- As you can see, I have used up my PTC Ads credits before so I have a couple of them already listed on the next page. Now, since we’re assuming it’s your first time doing this, click on the Create New Ad button on the right side.
- Now, simply fill up the form.
Here are a few notes on the fields on this form:
- Set the Target Country. If your site is aimed for a particular country, select the country then. Otherwise, leave it at All Countries so everyone can see your ad.
- Daily Limit – This is if you want to limit the amount of credits you want to use in a day. This way, you’d have more credits for the next day to keep your ads alive for a longer time. Take note, though, that if the limit has been reached, any members viewing the list of ads won’t see your link anymore. Set this limit wisely.
- Premium Members only. Well, it’s self-explanatory. If you only want Premium members to see your ads, then, check this box.
Make sure, too, that your ad or website you’re promoting doesn’t violate the Terms of Use by the PTC Site. Most of them don’t allow adult sites to promote on their site so take note of that.
- After clicking on Add Link, you’ll be given the updated list of PTC Ads you have available. Now, to add credits that you want to assign to that PTC Link ad, click on ADD link on the right side, as shown below:
- On the next page, you’d be asked if you want to use your Account Link Credits or you want to Purchase Credits. For this guide, we’ll select Account Link Credits.
I no longer had Link credits available so ignore that 0.00000 value. 
- Fill up the next form with the # of Credits you want to use. For the Hit Value, you can select how long you want the member to stay on your website before they can close it and get credited. If you want to get more traffic, select the cheapest and shortest among the options.
Then, click on Add Credits.
That’s it! As soon as you hit Add Credits, your Link Ad would be UP and LIVE so you can check that by going to the list of PTC Ads/View Ads link.
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