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