Auto Surfs: Those Automated Online Cash Cows
People use those automated cash cows called auto surfs for only
one reason: they present an opportunity to make big money online
for doing absolutely nothing. Auto surfs are exciting because
they do pay, and always greatly in excess of what you'll make in
traditional money markets. They are risky because they tend to
only last for a few months, although some have lived to up to
two years.
Auto surfs are simply web sites that present other web sites in
an automated manner: you get to see a particular site for
several seconds, then go on to the next one. If you do this each
day - viewing anywhere from a half-dozen to a hundred "page
views", depending on the auto surf in question, - you are given
a payment which represents a percentage of what you initially
deposited.
Know this: auto surfs are not the place to go if you wish to
promote your web site. Most people don't even bother to look at
the auto surf's ads as they fill their quota of "views" for the
day. Granted, some people will look at the displayed pages, at
least to some extent. But those people are typically internet
marketers looking for another business opportunity. Moral:
unless you like paying to preach to the choir, look for other
ways to find real buyers.
So what about the money? Two of the industry's leading sites
provide fairly normal illustrations of the payouts involved.
Auto surf grand-daddy Studio Traffic pays 1% of your deposit
daily, and pays you at the end of the month. So, if you deposit
$500 you will make $5 a day for the month, simply for viewing
100 auto surf web pages.
This amounts to $150 a month, or 30% interest on your $500. It
would take you fifteen years to make that much at the banks,
assuming an annual payment of 2.5%. One downside with Studio
Traffic's system is that you must keep your deposit in their
system. This means that you have to stay in the game for 4
months before you have made your deposit back and earned
interest , 20% interest as you would have earned $600 by that
time, based on your original $500.
12DailyPro only requires entrants to view 12 sites a day, and it
pays much more than Studio Traffic. With 12DailyPro each cycle
lasts 12 days instead of one month (as with Studio Traffic).
When the cycle ends, you get your entire deposit plus 44%.
If you entered with $500, you are given a total back of $720.
You can enter 12DailyPro with anything from $6 to $6,000. At the
high end of the range, $6,000, your 44% profit every two weeks
or so is precisely $2,640. This means that if 12DailyPro lasts
for 6 months from here in December, you would have a banked
profit of about $35,000 over and above your original $6,000.
(Your $6,000 would rise to $8,640 at the end of each cycle, and
you would only be able to put $6,000 of this $8,640 back in the
system. Therefore, you would have to take $2,640 out of the
system and into your own pocket every two weeks. This strategy
can be implemented at any level, simply by pocketing only your
profits at the end of each cycle and reinvesting an amount
that's always equal to what you had originally deposited. For
instance you could deposit $100 and take out $44 every cycle. In
this case it would take 3 cycles, or about a month and three
weeks, to assure profit.
From this it becomes obvious that we need to ask a core
question whenever considering entering any auto surf game: How
long has this program been around?
In the case of Studio Traffic the answer is "about two years"
and with 12DailyPro, it's "a few months". While the past is no
guarantee of future performance, this is vitally important
information to know because most auto surfs are built with the
intention to disappear as soon as enough people sign up. An
entirely normal scam might run for sic to eight months, until
one day when you go to the site it's simply not there, and
neither is your money. According to industry expectations,
12DailyPro will probably have to run for another eight or nine
months before it's not considered a potential fly-by-night cyber
gig - whatever that means in the morally ambiguous world of auto
surfs.
I wasn't kidding when I said that people only go into auto surfs
for the money. It's an online parlour game with a profoundly
backward business model. Auto surf like to play up the idea that
their sites produce real value, namely a well-paid audience
faithfully views the web sites they display in automated form.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Unless you like to pay for preaching to the choir, auto surfs
are not the place to park your advertising dollars. There is
absolutely no need for a member to actually look at the screen
while an auto-responder program is running - and guess what??
Most people don't.
They just let the program run automatically until they fulfill
their daily quota of surfs - and the auto surf companies know
this. Studio Traffic actually has a system in place where you
can let the person in your "upline" view for you. How's that for
advertising value!?
So just be clear about one thing. Auto Surfs are cash cows. The
only thing that matters is how long they last.
Therefore, your bottom line risk with Studio Traffic is 4
months. With 12DailyPro the minimal risk is 12 days - if you get
in and get out and stay out, by the end of the first 12-day
cycle you are up 44% over how much you put in, period.
That might seem like a way better bet, but 12DailyPro has been
around for only a few months. Most of the scam auto surfs last
this long, and the slimier ones will always make sure that the
promised payout is relatively superior.
How else might one sort out the good from the bad in Auto Surf
Land? Another helpful indicator is the quality of the auto surf
web site. By the way, a great place to make comparisons is by
signing on to an auto surf for free and seeing what sites you
are supposed to view in order to earn credits. Most of them will
be auto surfs! You'll soon see that many of them look like they
were literally thrown together. Watch also for spelling mistakes
as a lot of greedy eastern European con artists are entering
this game, without taking the time to learn how dupe the public
using proper English.
Going the other way, the more a professional looking web site
is, the more likely it is to be well conceived, and positioned
to stick around. Be sure to always check the quality of their
support and if the site is paying. Furthermore some auto surfs,
like 12DailyPro, will make claims of pending events that suggest
they are here to stay. These claims can and should be
researched. 12DailyPro claims that they will be having a
conference in late February - about two and a half months from
the time of this writing. That roughly represents 5 of their
12-day cycles, meaning that if I deposited $1,000 today, my
money would grow to $6,192 by the weekend of the conference if I
continually reinvested with an eye towards getting everything
out as soon as the conference ends.
The most important thing to understand is that auto surfs are
gambles and not investments. This is the place to put some of
your throw-away money to work, not the stuff you're putting away
for Junior's college.
Sylsvester is the owner of Surf At My Dot Com -
http://www.surfatmy.com. He is also the author of: How to Ensure
Victory In the 12DailyPro System in One Month or Less, which can
be found at http://surfatmy.com/twelvedailypro.htm