PTC Dictionary and Terms

• Advertiser - are those who pay for their advertisement (ad) to appear on other sites, who buy advertising space;
• AlertPay - payment processor;
• Bandwidth Limit Exceeded - the traffic limit (data transfer) assigned monthly by hosting service was exceeded;
• Cashout - action to withdraw money;
• High Yeld Investing Program (HYIP) - investment program that promises an unsustainably high return on investment;
• Convert to Ads - action to convert money from your account balance in commercials or ads;
• Downline - referrals that have registered under you;
• Earnings Area - is the place where you will can find the ads, area gain;
• Manage Ads - is a place where you can manage your ad;
• Matrix scheme - is a business model involving the exchange of money for a certain product with a side bonus of being added to a waiting list for a product of greater value than the amount given, similar to Ponzi or pyramid schemes;
• Multi Level Marketing (MLM) - network marketing sales, pyramid schemes;
• Paid To Click (PTC) - you get paid to click on ads;
• Paid To Read (PTR) - very similar to PTC;
• Paid To Search (PTS) - you get paid to perform some searches;
• Paid To Sign Up (PTSU) - you get paid to join in various programs;
• Paid To Promote (PTP) - you get paid to promote some sites;
• Referral - person recommended by you at enrollment in a program, from which you will earn a percentage of they earnings, usualy between 10% - 50%;
• Referral Direct - are represented by those who sign up under you, giving click on your referral link;
• Referral Rented - are those referrals rented for a limited time;
• Referral Bot - is that referral which has a automatic activity;
• Referral Commission - see "referral"
• Referral Level - referral system is represented on several levels.
• Referral Link - represents that unique link used by potential your direct referrals;
• Recycling Referral - recycling action of rented referral
• Scam - fraudulent deal;
• Spam - is action to send unsolicited bulk messages;
• Seller of Dreams - a person who promises much (sell only dreams), and nothing else, scammer;
• Premium member - action to upgrade from standard to premium member, in exchange of some money;
• Publisher - are those that sell advertising space on their site;
• Standard member - is equivalent with free member;
• Surf Ads - area gain, see Earnings Area;
• Traffic Exchange 1:1 / 2:1 - ex: for 10 sites visited, you will receive 10 or 5 visits for your site website / blog. A great Traffic Exchange is Easyhits4u;
• Upgrade - see Premium member;
• View Ads - see Earnings Area;
• Password Generator - the action to generate a unique password
• Paypal - a popular online payment processor
• Ponzi scheme - fraudulent investment business
• Pyramid schemes - a non-sustainable business illegal in many countries