Legitimate Paid Autosurf Programs vs. Scams
Copyright 2006 East Tech LLC
Paid Autosurf programs pay members for surfing websites in their
exchange. They allow advertisers to show their websites, for a
fee, to other members who surf and earn cash or credits for
their efforts. The advertisers hope is that as members surf,
they will be interested in their offer and make a purchase or at
least let them capture an e-mail address so they can try to
up-sell these folks later. Also, as the name "Autosurf"
indicates, surfers do not have to actually view each website as
they surf. Members could click on the surf button and walk away
for 5 minutes, grab a coffee and wait until the autosurf session
is complete. But many members do in fact watch these
advertisements. A majority of these paid autosurf members are
always looking for something new to promote themselves or
something new they've never seen before, in hopes of generating
more income for themselves.
There has been a lot of discussion about the validity of many of
these paid autosurf programs, and the fact is, there are far
more scam sites than legitimate ones. The scam artists know this
is a huge industry and it's very easy to get a paid autosurf
site up and running, promise huge returns for their members, and
at the peak of membership, close up shop just to do it all over
again.
There are also many legitimate paid autosurf owners who generate
a lot of money from their advertisers and are more than happy to
give a small percentage of their money to a captive audience so
their clients can get their sites shown to a very wide audience.
Since they promise their paid advertisers will get traffic to
their websites, they are expected to perform this service and
deliver. It's a win-win-win for the advertisers, the autosurf
exchange owners and the surfers.
Most paid autosurf programs require members to pay a small fee
to purchase ad units and allow these members to earn a certain
percentage on their money. When a member pays their ad fees,
they not only receive credits to have their websites shown to
other members, but they can also make money by surfing so many
websites each day. The amount of credits you receive, the amount
you are paid to surf each day and the number of sites you're
required to surf daily, all vary between paid auto-surf programs.
When joining these programs, it's make good sense to stay away
from the paid autosurf programs that promise high returns. Since
most paid autosurf exchanges pay between 1% and 2% per day, if a
program offers 10% per day or higher, that should raise a flag.
There are also paid autosurf programs that market themselves as
higher paying services, but if you do a little reading, you'll
quickly see the 7% per day gains break down to about 2% or less
per day. Those are still great returns for your time and money,
but you will not receive 7% per day for your efforts. It's all
in the marketing. Other programs that do promise higher
percentages and do in fact pay those high percentages, in my
opinion are Ponzi or pyramid schemes just waiting to collapse at
some point. Some people can make money if their timing is right,
but my recommendation would be to stay away from these programs
or you do risk losing all your money.