Get Paid to Click on Websites

January 21st, 2008, in Internet, by Patung

Some of the dubious ways that Indonesians make money on the internet.

These are some of the easy ways that Indonesians often make money while surfing the internet, not recommended and morally questionable perhaps, but a reality of Indonesian online life. Who would have known spending all that time in a warnet could pay off?

Get Paid to Click Ads

The Bux network - The user gets paid to click on ads and visit websites. You simply click an ad, wait for the page to load, and stay on the website for at least 30 seconds. You get paid $0.01 for each website you personally view. You can also refer your friends to join Bux and you will then get paid $0.01 for each website your friends view.

Now, it sounds like a waste of time, unless you can refer a lot of friends. For example -

You click 10 ads per day = $0.10
20 of your referred friends click 10 ads per day = $2.00
In one day you make $2.10
In one week you make $14.70
In one month you make $63.00
In one year you make $756.00, or about 7 million rupiah

For a lot of people that is not small change at all.

Getting Paid to Vote for Sites

Subvert and Profit - you get paid to vote for stories at social media sites like Digg and Stumbleupon, and also YouTube. Apparently you get $1.00 per batch of votes that you make, but you’ll only get a batch at the most once a day.

For all of these programs people need to have a Paypal account to receive the funds, assuming you make any worth receiving.

From keeping an eye on some Indonesian money-making blogs and looking at some of the popular forums like Kaskus it seems that these types of schemes, usually called “PTC” (paid to click) are very, very popular here. While as I said they are questionable things to do, because are a type of fraud, they are not actually illegal.

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4 Comments on “Get Paid to Click on Websites”

Muhammad Waseem Says:
January 21st, 2008 at 2:53 pm
I want to easy online job can any body tell me about online job.
Arema Says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I know another similar site named AdBrite, but Bux’s commission is much higher.

Assuming the warnet cost is Rp3000,- per hour (about Rp1.000.000,- a year assuming 1hour/day usage), average participants can get about Rp6.000.000,- clean profit every year, not bad to increase GDP eh? LOL, j/k.

While as I said they are questionable things to do, because they are a type of fraud, they are not actually illegal.

It is questionable… whether Bux will really pay the money or not. It is not a fraud actually, because if done in the right way, all parties benefited from it. The advertiser got their advertisements read (hopefully by interested readers), the company get paid by the advertiser, and the reader spend some time to get extra information and money.
Patung Says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Hi Arema, Adbrite is quite different, Adbrite you need to have your own website or blog, you put the ads on your pages and hope that other people click on them, or you get paid according to how many thousands of ad impressions you generate from your site. Bux is just clicking on ads on sort-of random websites.

if done in the right way

I don’t think there is a right way with this, the advertisers are selling something, and they are paying for these clicks/visitors.

Incidentally, Bux has a forum and there is a thread by Indonesian members, here are some stats posted by an Indonesian member:

I don’t know what the time frame for that is though.
ZoquiE Says:
February 8th, 2008 at 11:53 am
I don’t think it would pay off. As time has passes not even one of those PTC not even the Hyip had deliver what they had offered. Nay, they would just flee.
They had to reap what they had sown, I’d bet you !