Is PTC business still profitable?

[akamit]

Hello Community,
I would like to gain some knowledge about PTC business.
I do have some questions which I'm looking for before I decide to launch a PTC site.

- Does it profitable?
- Peoples are still interested in PTC/GPT sites?
- How much should be the initial budget needed to run the business at the beginning. (not talking about the budget to launch the site)
- Do users buy ads in a PTC site to promote their ref/affiliate links or other businesses?
- What could be a solid PTC model in order to be profitable? Any suggestion may help me with the planning.
- Do BTC ad networks accept PTC/GPT sites?
- How much could be the possible income per day with 10k visits? Any rough estimation will help I think.

If I missed any questions which I should have asked, please be helpful and answer those matters as well.

Hope to get some solid suggestions from the pros. 

[Yudhisthir]

A PTC business can still be profitable. There are always a demand for traffic.
The thing PTCs gets wrong is promising large referral rewards and pay to upgrade scheme which eventually makes the PTC a large ponzi.
Something fairly simple as adbtc has been in the business for years now. Neobux was forced to make some changes but they are one of the longest operating PTC now.

[akamit]

A PTC business can still be profitable. There are always a demand for traffic.
The thing PTCs gets wrong is promising large referral rewards and pay to upgrade scheme which eventually makes the PTC a large ponzi.
Something fairly simple as adbtc has been in the business for years now. Neobux was forced to make some changes but they are one of the longest operating PTC now.

Thanks for your input. What I'm trying is to gather some info in order to make a better decision.
I'm a realistic person and I don't have any interest in promising fake things or things which is impossible.
My first thought about the PTC was to not offer any memberships - but still I'm evaluating everything and lets see what comes up at the end.

[pinoycash]

- Does it profitable?
Yes, If you know how to take advantage of the traffic you receive

- Peoples are still interested in PTC/GPT sites?
Yes and there are still a big community of clickers that join any new PTC Project

- How much should be the initial budget needed to run the business at the beginning. (not talking about the budget to launch the site)
$1200 for initial payout since there ZERO Advertisers from the start you need to add your own ads for users to click and each click cost money and you need to honor their withdrawal

- Do users buy ads in a PTC site to promote their ref/affiliate links or other businesses?
YES, Mostly referral link from other PTC sites and sometimes faucets sites

- What could be a solid PTC model in order to be profitable? Any suggestion may help me with the planning.
Proper Money management - It takes 6 months to 1 year for PTC to become profitable for the owners.

- Do BTC ad networks accept PTC/GPT sites?
Yes, A-ads and Mellow Ads accepts PTC traffic

- How much could be the possible income per day with 10k visits? Any rough estimation will help I think.
For A-ads 0.001 BTC probably for 10k unique Visits

[akamit]

- Do BTC ad networks accept PTC/GPT sites?
Yes, A-ads and Mellow Ads accepts PTC traffic

- How much could be the possible income per day with 10k visits? Any rough estimation will help I think.
For A-ads 0.001 BTC probably for 10k unique Visits

I used Mellow Ads back in 2016 for my faucet sites. At that time my average revenue was BTC0.007 per day afair.
I was doing great with my faucets until Mellow Ads made a new announcement that new sites and existing sites need below 200k alexa rank.
Guess what? My sites got rejected by Mellow Ads. One site had alexa rank below 500k and another site had below 900k. However I don't know the current payouts.

I also used A-ads and it was giving me the least revenue... So I haven't used anymore at that time.
With my past experience A-ads is not a great choice I believe and it is not possible to earn BTC0.001 revenue from 10k visits, maybe or maybe not it is possible with 100k-300k visits.

Thanks for your detail input.

[felicita]

still PTc is totally attraktive look how many new successful ptc pages launched just this year .
There is a big crowd for PTC iam also doing PTC more than faucet claims XD


regards

[LTU_btc]

1. If you run your PTC business properly, offcourse it's profitable
2. Probably yes. I would say that best times of PTC websites already passed, but there are still more than enough potential users of such websites.
3. No idea.
4. People who promote referral/affiliate links is the main part of advertisers on PTC websites.
5. Difficult question. You must be very creative to survive. Patience is also very important, as user above said it's impossible to get profit very soon. And offcourse, you must to maintain your budget properly.
6. It depends on rules of every ad network. I doubt that highest quality networks will accept PTC website, but there are few networks which allow such websites.
7. Can't answer this question, no idea how much you can get.
I'm not sure that my answers will help. I don't have my own PTC website, I only tried to share knowledge from PTC user perspective.

[pinoycash]

I used Mellow Ads back in 2016 for my faucet sites. At that time my average revenue was BTC0.007 per day afair.
I was doing great with my faucets until Mellow Ads made a new announcement that new sites and existing sites need below 200k alexa rank.
Guess what? My sites got rejected by Mellow Ads. One site had alexa rank below 500k and another site had below 900k. However I don't know the current payouts.

I also used A-ads and it was giving me the least revenue... So I haven't used anymore at that time.
With my past experience A-ads is not a great choice I believe and it is not possible to earn BTC0.001 revenue from 10k visits, maybe or maybe not it is possible with 100k-300k visits.

Thanks for your detail input.

Its true A-ads pays lower compare to other networks but they are easy to setup up and no approval required. You try to check ADhitz its own by clixsense so its legit and been paying for a long time.

Rotate4all and other similar websites is also good options to earn from your PTC sites

Also URL shorteners that pays in BTC is also good alternative.

[ankit10]

Yes, it is profitable for now and for the future too. Just add some unique idea than classic PTC sites. Like Bitcoin by visiting URL shorteners or offerwalls and by completing surveys.
For Ads networks use a-ads, mellow ads (only if have less than 100K alexa), Bitmedia, popup ads on  only one page (users get frustrated if they find more popups ads), also check other Ads Networks site here: https://cryptocreed.com/bitcoinadvertsing-list-of-best-advertising-network-for-faucets/
If you want to promote your "future" site then contact me I can promote your site on my URL shortener which has traffic from Faucets mostly.

[Mike Mayor]

I wanted to start a PtC business and I still do and this is some of what I have learnt that I can share.

Most PTC turn out to be scams or are designed to be scams to begin with. Some are not as obvious and have fairly legit motives but don't properly think out and plan.
You need to make sure you charge enough to cover costs here is a quick example.

Keep in mind this is a very simple example and doesn't take into consideration the countdown timer of each website hit which would effect the price. The longer the site shows the more the cost.

You charge $2/1000 views and you pay out $1/1000 so you get paid $0.002/view and pay out $0.001 this is half and half

You want refferals so you rent them and you pay hlaf of the 50% you have left so 50% paid to members 25% for refferals and 25% for yourself. This mans refferals will make 50% of your users which is a lot.

You have plenty buffer room and still keep 25% + the amount people pay for rentals. This is if the refferals click 100% of the time which they won't.
This also means the users make their 50% plus the 25% / refferal so there is potential profit. This is stble and the more refferals people bring in the more you will make.

The problems comes in when places charge far too little in order to attract advertisers and then they pay out the users too much to attract them. In the end they don't plan to pay users and the advertisers get bad quailty viewers.

Hope this helps.

[mexicantarget]

I wanted to start a PtC business and I still do and this is some of what I have learnt that I can share.

Most PTC turn out to be scams or are designed to be scams to begin with. Some are not as obvious and have fairly legit motives but don't properly think out and plan.
You need to make sure you charge enough to cover costs here is a quick example.

Keep in mind this is a very simple example and doesn't take into consideration the countdown timer of each website hit which would effect the price. The longer the site shows the more the cost.

You charge $2/1000 views and you pay out $1/1000 so you get paid $0.002/view and pay out $0.001 this is half and half

You want refferals so you rent them and you pay hlaf of the 50% you have left so 50% paid to members 25% for refferals and 25% for yourself. This mans refferals will make 50% of your users which is a lot.

You have plenty buffer room and still keep 25% + the amount people pay for rentals. This is if the refferals click 100% of the time which they won't.
This also means the users make their 50% plus the 25% / refferal so there is potential profit. This is stble and the more refferals people bring in the more you will make.

The problems comes in when places charge far too little in order to attract advertisers and then they pay out the users too much to attract them. In the end they don't plan to pay users and the advertisers get bad quailty viewers.

Hope this helps.

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