The bad news is that this particular industry is rife with scammers.  If you are interested in getting involved with GPT programs, you’ll have to do your homework and take special precautions to protect yourself and your computer.  Stick with those programs that have been recommended to you by a reliable source.  All the GPT programs listed on this site (www.DrGPT.com) have been tested by me to be 100% trustworthy legitimate paying sites.

For many WAHMs, the GPT programs are a fun and easy way to earn some extra money when they need it.  People who have experience with the programs recommend that you never rely wholly on GPTs to pay your monthly bills.  But they can be a perfect solution to earn money for a special occasion or holiday shopping.

Just what are GPT programs?  They fall into three basic categories: get paid to read e-mail, get paid to fill out surveys and get paid to try products. Each type has its own pros and cons.  Before you start any GPT program, you should take some steps to protect your personal information.  You will be required to give your personal information for many of these programs and the less you actually say about yourself the better.

To start you should register a separate e-mail address for your GPT purposes.  Many programs can result in a lot of spam mail, so you’ll want to keep your main e-mail address separate.

Get paid to read e-mail programs will pay you a few cents for receiving e-mail and clicking on links.  Normally these e-mails offer special deals on products or encourage you to sign up for programs.  Sometimes, depending on the e-mail program, you will get more money or “points” if you try the offer.  You are not obligated to try the offers, and will get paid a small amount just for clicking on the link inside of the e-mail.  There are many popular paid e-mail companies.  Do some research before you sign up for a program to make sure that people are actually getting paid.  Try not to sign up for too many programs at once or your GPT e-mail address will be swamped.

Getting paid to fill out surveys works in a similar way.  You will sign up for a survey program and then fill out some personal information.  You will be matched to surveys that are looking for the opinions of people in your income bracket, of your age or one of several different qualification factors.  Depending on the company, you will get paid per survey, or completing surveys will earn you points that can later be redeemed.  Just as with get paid to read e-mail programs, do research on survey companies before you sign up.  There are hundreds out there but only a handful are worth the time and effort.

Finally there are get paid to try products programs.  These programs pay significantly more than the other GPT programs.  However, you will be required to pay anywhere from $1 to $10 to try the products.  When you use these kinds of programs, you have to be careful to take complete records of what you will be receiving and when you need to cancel service or return the item.  Most of the time you will be registered for recurring billing for a monthly service, which can be canceled within the initial 7 to 14 days if you are so inclined.  You can call the companies and cancel the service, yet still be paid for signing up for the GPT program if your find the product or service undesirable.

1.       Many search engines and indices (plural for index) will allow you to submit your whole referral or affiliate link (though most wont.)   Most notably Google and MSN Live Search ( I knew someone that got his referral link for another site posted on the FIRST PAGE of Google and made a killing in referrals!)  One quick way to test a search provider if you have been promoting your referral links for some time would be to do a search for your username (usually present at the end of your referral link) and see what the results show.  Look for your own referral links listed in the search results.  If your referral link shows in its entirety then you know to add that search provider to your list for periodically submitting all of your raw referral or affiliate links directly.

2.       Buy or earn yourself a snappy new domain name and have it redirect (the whole domain) to your referral or affiliate link (you don’t even need hosting – just use domain forwarding.) Then promote your new domain to the search engines, indices, forums, and blogs. It helps not having the obvious referral link look.  Cheap domain names start at just $1.99 or can be FREE if you know where to look (below):

DomainLagoon |  HostingLagoon |  URLSavings |  AnotherFree |  URLFreedom

3.       Choose a referral banner that doesn’t give up the whole site URL (or edit/make your own.)  Many people will (for some reason) choose to type in the URL manually if they have the benefit of knowing it rather that clicking upon an obvious referral link.   Leave them guessing a bit (make it a bit of a mystery) as to what site the banner is speaking of.  When speaking of sites in text, refer to them in a way that doesn’t obviously or intuitively disclose the URL (for example, if I was writing about www.GreedyClicks.com, I would say “Greedy Clicks” rather than “GreedyClicks”, or “GreedyClicks.com”.

4.       Start blogging about your referral sites / links at Blogger.   Blogger is Google based and I’ve found is your best chance at a popular blog with a great Google rank.  I’ve noticed that Google regularly favors their own blogs based on their own blog site interface (and it doesn’t hurt to promote this blog to other search engines and indices as well.)  Blogger will also host your blog for free seamlessly on your own domain.  Another good blog site with max exposure is the eBay based blog.  Make an eBay blog and promote it as well.

5.       Regularly do a search, as if you knew nothing at all about the subject of the type sites you are promoting.   See what pops up.   Notice the first site on the list.   Notice what they are doing right? …and what you may be doing wrong? (meta tags, keywords, description, etc.)  Notice keywords, etc.    Improve the quality, quantity, and newness of your textual content regularly. Be honest and open, don’t resort to superlatives and hype wording like “Go to this site and make $500 in an hour” and “fire your boss” (a big turn off and one of the reasons why people may leave your site early.)  Morph your site into a closer rendition of the top site and re-submit (another step up the ladder?)  …just common sense.

6.       If you run your own referral sites…  do your homework on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques (freely available all over the web.)  Learn about the proper use of META TAGS, robots.txt, and sitemap files.  If you are going to do it, do it right!  Oh, and don’t use “frames” when building your site (they are not search engine/index friendly – don’t shoot yourself in the foot.)

7.       Purchase professional web site promotional services and/or software that will automate your site submission efforts.  Don’t get fooled by software / services that say they will promote your site(s) to 30,000 search engines, etc.  Chances are 95% of those sites will be Free For All (FFA) sites which likely no human ever looks at (at one time FFA sites increased your “link popularity” – which mattered then – but all respectable search engines and indices have learned to ignore the FFA sites now – seeing their obvious abuse and non-consequence.)  Anyways, what’s the point?  Most FFA sites want you to manually confirm your entry nowadays (want 80 or 90 emails to respond to personally – go ahead and submit to useless FFA sites.)

8.       Be persistent, but DON’T SPAM the search engines/indices. A good interval for me (with good luck) has been to submit at least once a month (but NOT more.)  A lot of engines/indices will quickly add you to their trashcan if you bug them more (not a good place to be.)

9.       Join a link exchange network (thousands out there.) This may help significantly depending upon the quality (interest generated – staying power) of your own site (compared to others in the network.)

10.   Take over an already popular web site domain that has expired (get them cheap if you know where to look) and post your referral links / banners there.  Enjoy instant popularity with the twist of people not knowing what hit them once they’ve arrived.

11.   Think of a unique niche of people that might appreciate the product, service, or site you are promoting and post to forums covering that niche.  …for example, people with some sort of social anxiety (such as agoraphobia, etc.) or other homebound people might want to learn about online money making from home sites , etc.  Post to social forums covering that niche topic.

12.   Double or triple the impact of your message forum posts by promoting your posts to the search engines and indices as well…  Yes, after writing posts to a particular forum I always try to go back, gather the “permalink”s (or URLs) of the specific posts I wrote in notepad and spend a bit of time afterwards adding them to the search providers to crawl.

Below is a Partial List of Links to Popular Search Engine and Index URL Free Submission Pages

• Add your URL to Google

• Submit to Yahoo!

• Add your URL to Alexa Web Search

• MSN Live Search URL Submission

• Submit your Site to Jayde

• Free Multi-Add URL Online – ineedhits

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