PTC Sites Dictionary

PTC Dictionary and Terms

(The most popular PTC terms and expressions)

• Advertiser- are those who pay for their advertisement (ad) to appear on other sites, who buy advertising space;
•  AlertPay- A former payment processor, now called Payza;
• Bandwidth Limit Exceeded- the traffic limit (data transfer) assigned monthly by hosting service was exceeded;
• Cashout/Payout- Action to withdraw money;
• 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;
• High Yeld Investing Program (HYIP)- Investment program that promises an unsustainably high return on investment;
• 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;
•  Payza.com- A payment processor, former AlertPay;
• 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;
• Phishing- is attempting to acquire information (and sometimes, indirectly, money) such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication;
• 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