Scam site criteria
Criteria used to place paid to sites on a scam list
What factors everyone needs to know
What factors would one to look at when researching if a Paid to site will turn out to be a payer? This is a very pressing matter for someone who would like to earn in Paid to area. It becomes even more imperative if one is to avoid being scammed.This is where our scam site criteria comes into play.
How to determine if a paid to site is a scam?
Business model, site behavior and member feedback
So, what are the factors involved in the scam list determination criteria?
Lower advertising prices in comparison to member compensation rates
Simply put, a paid to site cannot stay in profit while paying its members more than it charges for advertising.
Let’s consider an example. Suppose an advertising page displays the rate of $10 for sending untargeted mail to 100 members. But the home page shows a compensation of $1 per email read to every member. In this case the owner of the site would have to pay $100 ($1 x 100 members) to the members for reading email while receiving only $10. That leaves a negative number of $90. Clearly, this doesn’t make any economic sense. It points to the certain case the phony paid to site. The probability that this site was set up to scam its future members and/or advertisers is close to 100 percent, unless there is a mistake on the advertising page.
Unrealistic rates of compensation
It helps to be realistic in the outlook towards the whole Paid to industry. Let’s face it, what advertiser would pay $20 per click for a site visit? If you see a site promising $20 per click and it looks too tempting think about a couple of things:
Where else can you see such outrageous pay per click? It is true that in Google Adwords advertisers sometimes pay $1 to $2 dollars per targeted keyword. But with PTR/PTC etc sites the audience and are not so targeted and it wouldn’t be reasonable for an advertiser to pay such sky high rates.
A site’s shaky online presence
If a site disappears for long periods at a time: weeks or even months it is a big red flag. There have been many occurrences of site disappearances with no future return. They all disappeared for number of various “legitimate” reasons and without. These “valid” reasons consist of such excuses as website hacker attacks, admins getting sick, site redesign, etc, that leave their members hanging in the dry. Paid to sites that don’t pay their members because of phony excuses rightfully deserve to be on a scam list. No technical difficulty with script unsustainability or visual design holdups can be counted as legitimate reason for not processing payouts. A site can always be closed if there is no other alternative
Given, every site owner faces certain challenges while trying to run his/her enterprise smoothly, but all technical difficulties carry a temporary character and can be either overcome or avoided. There are plenty of examples of honest owners who experienced different challenges, but it has not ultimately kept them from making payouts.
Sites running on stolen scripts
This factor is an obvious one in the scam site criteria. Any paid to site running on stolen scripts exposes bold dishonesty of any program owner(s) who uses them. What will make you think they will pay their members if they even began running their program by being dishonest?
Site owners that break their own site terms
When looking to become a member or an advertiser at a Paid to site one should always carefully read terms of service and abide by them should he/she chose to get involved. But what can be said about site owners themselves? Sometimes, it gets so ridiculous they break their own terms without any regard to any agreements, payout terms included. If and when it occurs, site members and their rightfully deserved earnings are usually in for a bleak future.
Overwhelming negative member feedback
If there is a substantial evidence around the web that a paid to site is scamming people out of their money, especially if evidence is provided by its victimized members, be it lack of earned payouts, or any other deliberate way of cheating, then such site is placed on our Scam list as well.
Those are just some obvious signs that expose scam sites.
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