Paid to click - don’t bother
Back in June, I was looking around for ways to make money online and came across sites that paid you to click. The idea is that you sign up, log in and then click on ads of companies that sell products or services you’re interested in. In return you get paid. Simple.
Some sites suggested that you could get paid up to $5 for 30 seconds work. If ever there was a totally over-exaggerated claim, then this is it.
I signed up to a couple of sites, and looked around a lot more. I soon found out that the sites only paid around $0.01 per ad viewed. Sometimes this was as low as $0.001 per click. Not exactly sums of money that mean you can give up the day job.
You have to view the ads for a minimum of 30 seconds without switching or minimising the browser. This means you can’t have multiple ads open at any one time. Not a problem if you’re earning $5 but it is an issue when all that is at stake is one cent.
Assuming you could view ads all day long, which you can’t as there aren’t enough of them, you’d make two cents per minute or $1.20 per hour. Based on a 7 hour working day that would give you $8.40, or about £4.50 if you are in the UK. You’d probably spend more on heat, light, electricity and broadband than you would make in income. I was going to try and keep clicking for one month, just to see how much I could actually earn, but I gave up after about 10 minutes.
I could carry on writing as there are other negatives, but I think I’ve made my point. If you’re looking to earn extra cash online, don’t even bother with paid to click sites as it’s all just a waste of time and effort.
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