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Getting referrals

by Karna Suwanda Web Designer

Getting referrals is a big part of how successful you are investing time in Paidto- Click.(PTC), Paid-to-Read (PTR), affiliate programs, or any other program where referrals have a direct impact on your income. Increasing the amount of referrals you have dramatically increases the amount of money you make.You will realise that there are many other people in the same situation trying to get people to join via their ref links also. So its as hard as cracking nuts. Follow some of these tips and your sure to have some more ref's in no time.

So how do you actually get referrers I will examine the ways to get people to join using your refer link. Getting referrers takes some effort and some time, but you can get a lot of referrers take the time to try and get them, for example, while you are doing your clicking open another tab and signup/post on some forums, add a post to your blog, all you need is 1 hour a day and you can click all your ads on 5-10 different sites and do some advertising all at the same time.

Everyone is trying to get referrers so what can you do to have an edge and be the one who gets MORE referrers than the competition? Here are some tips for you. Forums / Message Boards Place referral links in your signature, Create a post containing your referral links, and Link the "www" under your avatar to your forum post, now every time you write a response the signature well placed automatic under your response. Don’t try to add links to your response because than you going to be a "spammer" and spammers get bend from all forums. This is very important! Some good forums to post on are your general forums about working from home as these people are looking for ways to make more income working from home. See the resource section at the end of this guide for a list of forums.

Blogs and Websites

A blog or website will help you keep track of the PTC sites you are currently one, it will also allow you to review some of the sites you have tried and advertise some of the ones you are currently using or trying out, basically the nice thing about a blog is that it’s a great way to keep track of what your currently doing in the PTC worked and to make this public so that you can make money from ad sense as well as gaining referrers to the PTC sites you are promoting. Try using one of the free blog sites around to start with and if your happy then move to a more permanent one with your won domain name. Also you can promote your blog link in your forum postings too. This may be the most time-consuming of all the methods, depending on how much time you spend on it. BUT, it is well worth the effort if you do it right. Squidoo is a perfect site to use as it gets tons of traffic and attention. Plus, you get to see how many people visit your lens as well as what links they click on. For the best results, you should build a lens that is informative, nice to look at, and wellorganized. If you build your lens well, you will get a high ranking and your lens will be featured on Squidoo search, and you will get tons of visits. You should take some space on your lens to explain what PTC is. This is in case a visitor comes to your site with no prior knowledge of PTC's. You want to explain it in a way that is simple and inviting, but do NOT exaggerate. Please, do not make false claims to get referrals. If you claim that they will make thousands a month, I promise that once they sign up and see 10 $.01 ads, they will do the math themselves. You don't just want signups, you want active referrals. To get active referrals, you have to show the visitor how they can succeed in this business.

Live chat programs

Advertising your referrals in online chat rooms and IM programs can get a lot of people’s attention however make sure to use the appropriate etiquette and ensure not to break the house rules by spamming. Advertising in the real world Create flyer's and distribute them on public notice boards, hand to hand, advertising in newspapers, local newspaper and so on... make sure it’s appropriate and you obey any laws in your area. You will be amazed at how effective this can be especially on public bill boards. Advertise on PTC and other types of sites Advertising using PTC sites, make sure that you don’t advertising in the same PTC site that you are try to get Referrals because people that see your ad is already registered to the same site. Advertising on PTC sites is relatively cheap for the number of people that you will get seeing your advert, but it’s not always very effective i.e. expect 1-2 referrals
from every 500-1000 views.

Advertise at Free Traffic exchange sites



Traffic Exchanges are basically sites that offer its members the ability to advertise their links and banners for free after viewing other links and banners. Here's how it works: You sign-up as a member of a Traffic Exchange site. You then must view ads like you do for PTC sites, but instead of getting paid for your clicks; you are able to advertise your banners and links. Traffic exchanges usually offer some type of ratio for exchange. For instance, a site that offers 1:1 ratio means that you can get one click on your referral link or banner for every one click that you make. You will surf for ad links in exchange for your own advertisements. Some of these sites
May even pay you for surfing, so you will hit 2 birds in one stone.

http://www.easyhits4u.com
http://www.shareadspace.com
http://www.hogshollow.com
http://www.lords-of-traffic.com
http://www.royalsurf.com
http://www.ts25.com
http://www.traffic-splash.com
http://www.trafficera.com


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About Karna Suwanda Advanced     Web Designer

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Comments

Robin Robinson Advanced   Affiliate, Traffic Wave
Karna, This is a very informative article about how to grow referrals without going broke. You've give some really good ideas. Thank you. I Tweeted and Liked this one.
Apr 17th 2012 03:57   
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