Clicking For Cash Friendly Tips: A Beginner’s Guide to Success
Clicking for cash is fun and easy work to earn some extra money, but it's also risky business if you don't invest your time and money wisely. So, I've compiled some notes from my personal experience of do's and don'ts to save you time and money.

The First Rule of Thumb: Create a Diversified Portfolio to Elevate Your Income with Smart Site and Faucet Choices

Signing up with too many sites and faucets is exhausting, and clicking all day doesn't really amount to much money at the end of the month.  I recommend that you comfortably click 2 to 3 hours weekdays and login on weekends only to sites that require daily login and clicking ads to collect referral earnings or maintain bonuses. Click the minimum requirement of ads.  The paid to click sites and cryptocurrency faucets in Our Portfolio fulfill the basic criteria for legit PTC programs which include prompt payment, customer service, adherence to protocols outlined in the Terms of Use, transparency, and an active forum.  New PTC sites and Bitcoin faucets are marked as 'under review.'

Let me explain that there are two basic approaches to clicking ads for cash.  The first is a leisurely hobby to earn some extra dollars; and the second is to start affiliate marketing and promote free membership plans in paid to click (the niche) to build a network of direct referrals to generate passive income from referral commissions.  I use a balance of both methods to earn money through passive referral commissions by promoting a fixed number of legit paid to click earning platforms, and to discover what's trending in the ether while clicking for a few extra dollars. The advertisements in paid to click reveal a wealth of free digital products, services, tutorials, AI platforms, and software.  It offers me the opportunity to discover new ways to improve advertising and marketing skills, and to discover new ideas and new ways to generate wealth.

This is why Our Portfolio contains several sites and faucets.  To regularly click on all of these faucets is not humanly possible and it's damaging to one's health and lifestyle.  I have applied affiliate marketing strategies to earn money through free advertising on free traffic sites, and to boost organic traffic to my website which is free advertising courtesy of search engine crawlers that reward my effort to create high-quality backlinks, useful information through content writing and posting on various platforms,  and to optimize on-page SEO features.

I don't click ads all day, nor do I routinely click on secondary sites and faucets that I use for free advertising and research.   I dedicate my time and effort to promote in total 5 from the list of sites and faucets in the portfolio.  The remainder of sites and faucets serve as a source for free advertising, research, leisure, and subsidizing for cryptocurrencies I trade on the exchange.  I aim to maintain an active status on these secondary sites and faucets which is defined in the list of protocols in the Terms of Use as, 'Members are obligated to login and click at least once a month to avoid suspension due to inactivity.'

Furthermore, the five legit sites which I promote through affiliate marketing can also be considered as 'elite' online earning platforms.  These PTC sites and PTC Bitcoin faucets make it possible for free members to maximize their earning potential through incentive rewards, for example 'compounding interest on a set amount in the balance' and daily incentive rewards such as Daily Prizes and faster faucet timers.  The list of primary legit and elite earning platforms include additional earning features as in clicking more ads in offerwalls, doing surveying, completing offers, watching videos, playing games, doing shortlinks and so forth. 

These features indicate a healthy earning platform that finds different ways to monetize the earning platform to accommodate for increasing population of its members.  By subsidizing the potential to earn more, these elite sites maintain stability and credibility. For example, poorly managed sites and faucets in paid to click that do not accommodate for surges in membership, unfortunately decrease the click value of ads.  Elite sites maintain the standard click value of ads and provide other ways to boost their passive income other than paid advertising, which is how sites and faucets earn their money.  The owners also receive a percentage of member earnings from additional activities.  This is a win-win situation for both the owner and members.

The Second Rule of Thumb: Avoiding the Earning Calculator Trap 

Purchasing upgrades and rented referral is risky business for several reasons.  Most likely you will not make a profit or 'see a return on your investment' and unfortunately; regularly clicking all the ads doesn't safeguard you against financial loss.   Rented referrals are bots which prove to be unreliable and unstable.  They eventually stop clicking and stop earning money.  Some rented referral bots don't click at all.  Recycling referral who are 'duds' is a paid service, and once again, there is no money-back guarantee that the recycled referrals will be active and regular.

Secondly, there is still no guarantee against financial loss even if you have a large group of direct referrals and expect to maximize your earning potential by investing in an upgrade.  Direct referrals may be real people, but this is all the more reason to expect them (at some point) to become irregular or periodically inactive, so there is no guarantee that you will see a return on your upgrade which has an expiry date.  If you have made provisions or applied strategies to daily boost organic traffic to your the referral links (in your downline builder website or web page), you cannot compensate for the inactivity or irregularity of direct referrals.  If you have purchased a more expensive and long-term upgrade, then in such as case; you will have financial loss rather than financial gain.

This is why I strongly recommend working with the free membership to build a network of direct referrals, to build high quality backlinks to your website, and to ensure a constant daily supply of organic traffic for search engines to redirect internet users looking for ways to make money online to your website.  This daily organic supply of traffic is free advertising, and it is passive advertising.  Search engines are promoting your 'reputable,' 'trustworthy,' and 'optimized' website to potential members searching for online earning platforms.

Elite sites don't use 'earning calculators'.  In my experience, earning calculators indicate 'free money scam' earning platforms.  These devices are misleading and inaccurate, because these two factors are excluded from the equation for potential earning: rented referrals are unreliable bots and direct referrals are unpredictable.

The Third Rule of Thumb: Use Free Traffic Websites to Boost Your Affiliate Referrals

There are several ways to get free advertising from traffic sites, and there are several free ways to boost traffic to your referral links.  These are two separate strategic ways to getting referrals.  Free traffic exchange sites and free ad sites involve surfing ads to earn cash and ad credits.  Use the ad credits for free advertisement to promote your referral links, splash pages, or downline builder  in the traffic exchange network.  Or, spend the cash in the balance for paid advertisement.

Free Traffic Sites & Free Ad Sites

It is highly recommended that you create a free downline builder and dedicated splash pages using free builder sites such as wix.com and wordpress.com or wordpress.org in order to promote effectively and efficiently.  Read more about the benefits of using splash pages and downline builders to promote in PTC.

I strongly caution not to invest money to buy referrals that often time prove to be bots and become inactive.  Invest your time and energy creating sales assets in the paid to click industry, such as downline builders that promote all your links on single web page and captivating splash pages to get new direct referrals.

First Boost Traffic, Then Upgrade

The Fourth Rule of Thumb: The Importance of Due Diligence before Becoming a Member

Sites and faucets are not regulated by a centralized authority like the BBB (the Better Business Bureau), and this is why it is so important to research sites and faucets on review sites and scam advisory sites that make it their business to report scams and fraud.  Trust Pilot is a review site that is used both by paid to click site and faucet owners and merchants to promote products and services.  The owners of elite sites and faucets welcome transparency as means to build their trustworthy reputation. They submit a profile page for their paid to click business and require their member to post proof of payment on the review site as a testimonial of their elite status as legit and reputable sites and faucets.  Read the article about detecting free money scam sites in paid to click which also contains online resources to research the legitimacy, stability, and credibility of PTC sites and PTC faucets.

How to Detect Scams

The Fifth Rule of Thumb: Applying Elite Site Criteria

The checklists of criteria include: active referrals, flexible upgrades, a registered company, no investment required to earn, nor to cash out, prompt payment, active forum, responsive admin.  Legit and elite sites have compensated for sudden surges in membership population, so that the daily click value and paid advertising is not the owners' sole means of passive income.  Elite sites are marked by incentive reward and incentive earning programs such as bonuses, prizes, competitions, compounding interest on a fixed amount in the balance. 

This the reason why, elite earning platforms in paid to click encourage members to promote the free membership plan.  It's a mutually rewarding business endeavor for advertisers to build their network of direct referrals to increase their earning potential.  Owners of elite earning platforms offer several tiers of referral commissions, as well as referral commissions for all earning activities on the platform.  Both the advertisers and owners maximize their passive income. 

These elite sites do not propel the 'free money scam' of using 'earning calculators.'  They offer incentive rewards for direct referral competitions.  Of course, there is always an element of risk involved in paid to click.  Only the test of time will prove if direct referrals are real people or just bots.  It is worth spending your time and energy to promote in order to get direct referrals rather than buy rented referral bots that become stop earning (some don't even start earning.) Real people may periodically become irregular or inactive, but they will never stop earning referral commissions. 

The secret to creating a large network of active direct referrals and maintaining this network in order to earn an optimum income is 'traffic'.  Learn about the various digital marketing strategies that can secure a daily supply of free traffic or free adverting to boost traffic to your referral links and boost your potential build and maintain a large (and ever-growing) network of active direct referrals. Read the following article for a general overview about how to use resources of free traffic to promote.  Click through the embedded articles to read about specific traffic building strategies in digital marketing that are used to promote and to provide a long-term solution to boosting traffic to your links.

The Best Ways to Get Direct Referrals to PTC Programs

Mastering the Sixth Rule of Thumb: Paying Yourself First

I apply this rule to all of my online activities.  Getting paid for the work you do online is the main objective, so 'follow the minimum cash out protocols', and get paid.  The second rule I also apply to online income opportunities is 'not to invest money that I can't afford to lose.'  This is why I strongly recommend to use all the benefits that a free membership plan in paid to click.  You can build a successful business with a free membership to safeguard against free money scam sites or faucets and to secure an income from passive referral commissions.  

It is more cost efficient to choose an upgrade to increase the percentage of income afforded by the designated upgrade plan after you have invested the time, energy, and strategies to generate traffic and generate leads.  It is an unrealistic expectation to solely rely on an upgrade to boost income, even if you have a few direct referrals.  You still need to secure a means of providing a daily supply of traffic to secure a constant supply of potential additions to your network of direct referrals.  To do otherwise is a financial risk.  Poorly managed sites and faucets go out of business and 'free money scam sites and faucets' issue fake payments.  Secure your investment of time and energy following the minimum withdrawal protocols.  Use the free membership plan to build a strong foundation to secure future income without investing 'money you can't afford to lose.' 

In summary, making money through online earning platforms should not be an option.  I you are not making money, then change the platform.  The upgrade is the option, but it is not a necessity to make money and to strategically promote to earn a passive income.  In point of fact, the proof of payment you provide as a testimonial for the earning potential of the platform as a free member can become a 'sales asset' to convince members to join.

The Seventh Rule of Thumb: Monetizing Your Way to Success

Monetize whatever 'sales assets' such as splash pages and downline builder websites in paid to click using Ad Widgets and Ad Bars.  These monetizing features are popular incentive rewards used by elite sites and elite faucets. They earn you extra money and free traffic or free advertising.  And they are visually stimulants to attract the attention of viewers and gain direct referrals.  Use ad widgets from traffic exchange sites like Leads Leap.  Use PTP l (paid to promote) links from traffic rotator sites like Rotate4All.  Use splash pages from EasyHits4U and ad bars from Traffic Ad Bar and Leads Leap.

Monetize your primary sales asset (your downline builder website) with third-party product or service links to earn you money in affiliate marketing.  Sign up with an affiliate network such a Digistore24 to build a second income stream alongside PTC.  Include a product page or incorporate the third-party products in the web pages of the website.

eMoney Biz Product Page

Ad Widgets and Ad Bars in paid to click are 'sales assets' much in the same way splash pages and downline builder websites are your 'sale assets'. These Ad Widgets and Ad Bars similarly should aim to do these two critical tasks.

The first is to get new sign ups.  This is crucial in PTC.  Firstly, these direct referrals increase your earning potential.  And secondly, these new sign ups serve as a buffer for less active direct referrals already in your network.

The second is to get free advertising.  By promoting these sales assets on your splash pages and downline builder web pages you get paid money or ad credits to send traffic to sites and faucets of these Ad Widgets and Ad Bars. If potential leads become members through your ad widget or ad bar, these members join your network of direct referrals.  Use the money to re-invest in paid advertising.   The free ad credits are free advertising which is at your disposal.

Why the Eighth Rule of Thumb Demands Top-Notch Malware Protection

Advertisements are riddle with viruses.  Sites and faucets are readily hacked.  Don't risk damage to your computer or identity theft.  Regular scan checks and purging infected files is highly recommended.  Periodically clearing the cookies cached in your browser also helps your computer to function more effectively and efficiently.  These cookies slow down the browser and create 'fuzzy logic' in the back office.  The more serious threat of viruses and Trojans demands the use of 'top-notch high quality malware protection' to avoid against serious damage to hard drive and to safeguard against hackers gaining access to sensitive information stored in the hard drive.

To suffer financial loss or damage defeats the whole purpose of working online to earn money.  Safeguard your online working environment in the same way the law mandates to safeguard the workplace for employees.  Invest money for malware protection and audit the proper and healthy functioning of your personal computer to ensure safety, security, and efficiency.