Rewards programs focusing on shopping rebates, surveys, sign-ups, emails, etc.:

QuickRewards Read my QuickRewards review QuickRewards is kind of a hybrid site that's hard to categorize. You get paid in cash to view ads, read emails, sign up for offers, complete surveys, and shop. This site has some of the best rebates for shopping, and getting it back in actual cash instead of gift certificates is quite nice. (E.g., you can earn 4.1% at Target, 4.2% at Barnes and Noble, etc.) The owner is great, and is always looking for ways to improve the site. Just by viewing ads, watching "videos" (commercials), and reading emails alone you can earn about 10 cents a day. Ads range from .05 cent to one cent each. Cashout with no minimum through PayPal, or buy gift certificates of specificed denominations to places like Amazon. With it's many earning options and great support, QuickRewards is my favorite GPT site. InboxDollars Earn cash for reading emails, taking surveys, shopping, and signing up for offers at InboxDollars. The most interesting feature at InboxDollars is fairly new: They pay you to watch commercials for famous brands like Nikon, Sony, Juicy Couture, Bing, and more. There are usually 5-10 available per day, paying 2-5 cents a piece. Emails are usually worth about two cents a piece, with an average of 1-2 sent per day. Surveys are typically worth 50 cents, and they give you a specified percentage back for shopping at a wide variety of merchants. Payout is at $30 by check, though they do take a $3 fee out of it. I've had a great experience with their customer service as well (with an issue that was entirely my fault). SwagBucks Read my SwagBucks review SwagBucks uses Swag Bucks, usually abbreviated as SBs, as their currency. It takes 450 SBs to buy one $5 Amazon gift card, which is the best point conversion available at the site, making each SB worth approximately one cent. There are several other gift cards available, as well as PayPal payout. You can earn SBs by searching the net using the search engine on their site (randomly awarded 6-50 SBs), doing a daily poll (1 SB), playing games (appears to be worth up to 10 SBs daily), watching SwagBucks TV (up to 75 SBs daily), signing up for offers (variable), and more. It's a stable site with a lot of different ways to make money, and it's pretty fun. Easily earn 50 cents per day with hardly any work. Much more if you spend a lot of time there or sign up for offers. MyPoints Read my MyPoints review MyPoints is a points-based system. Read emails, shop, complete surveys, sign up for offers. One of the best and also one of the oldest, and paying all this time. Redeem for gift certificates at dozens of different restaurants, stores, even some hotels and airlines. MyPoints has paid for more than one pair of new shoes for me!

Survey sites:

OpinionOutpost OpinionOutpost is a popular survey site offering an average of about one to two surveys per day, usually paying $1-$3 a piece. They pay nothing if you don't qualify, though you do sometimes get the option to donate 10 cents to charity or enter a contest for a cash prize. The interface is nicely set up, and you can cash out instantly to an Amazon gift card or request a check. This is a smooth survey site, with no weird gimmicks or anything fishy. I definitely recommend it. NFO MySurvey MySurvey is another no gimmick survey site that I recommend. There are fewer surveys here but they're worth more on average (the most I've earned is $15 for one survey), so that makes up for it. MySurvey also pays you 5-10 cents for just trying to qualify for a survey, which is quite nice. They just recently introduced automatic payment to PayPal, as well as the ability to buy gift cards (including to Amazon). The only flaw with that is they charge you a 10% markup for the privilege, and they've tacked the same fee onto their checks now. I hate it when programs do that, so my recommendation for this site isn't as assured as it used to be.

PTC/PTR sites with high link values but small numbers of links:

WordLinx Read my comparison between WordLinx and ClixSense WordLinx offers almost exclusively Paid to click (PTC) ads, at a rate of 0.1-two cents per ad. I was earning a maximum of 8 cents per day as a standard member, and typically earn 7-21 cents/day as a premium member (except for my first day as premium when I was able to visit 51 sites). The upgraded membership costs $10 and easily pays for itself in a few months. Pay-out is instant at $10, through PayPal (minus a 50 cent fee to WordLinx). NeoBux Read my NeoBux Review NeoBux only has paid to click (PTC) ads, most of them worth 1/10th cent, some worth 0.5-1.5 cents. As a standard member I get a minimum of four 1/10th cent ads a day, upwards of 30 total ads a day; average of about 15. You can also "rent" referrals here, which adds an interesting twist to the referral game. Forum with tons of useful info, including a very active admin. I also really like the interface of this site. Low initial pay-out of $2 through PayPal, AlertPay or NetTeller. This is the only Bux site that I can fully recommend right now. AdPaid AdPaid pays you in cash to click ads, read emails, shop, complete surveys, and sign up for offers. They also reward points which are converted to cash at the end of each month, typically at a rate of at least $0.80 CPM (80 cents per thousand). The ads and emails total up to only a few cents a day, but it's worth a daily visit. Ads are worth between 0.5-1 point or upwards of 0.2 cent. Emails are worth upwards of 0.5 cent. Jill's Click Corner This is another true PTC, with over a hundred links per day worth 0.1-0.5 cents each. Every once in a while there will be a one cent link. You can easily earn ten cents a day here by clicking all the links. They pay and have been around for over five years.

PTR/PTC/PTP sites with low link values, but large numbers of links:

Vale PTR Vale is a huge site with hundreds of emails and PTCs available daily, and is open to most countries around the world. I (as a tier 1 member) have made over $10 since I joined just over two months ago. Email links are worth 0.05c, 0.04c, 3 points, or are contest links. The PTCs consist of a tier 1 section with links worth either 0.05c or 3 points; a tier 1/2 section with values of either 0.04c or 2 points; points PTC section with ads worth 1-3 points each; as well as a contest section, small section for general PTCs, and a few risk games. There are 82 affiliate pages (as of Dec 2009) with eight three point links each. Points can be converted to cash at a rate of $0.10 per thousand, so those 3pt affy page links are worth 0.03c apiece. Total, the affiliate pages are worth over $0.19 per day! I had to do that math three times because I didn't trust it, haha! There is also PTP avilable, to the tune of $0.55 CPM for free members, $0.75 for upgraded members, as well as a $0.10 no tier link that can be used by anyone and in conjunction with *both* other links (only the free link if you're not upgraded). The admin is courteous and responsive, ad rates are reasonable, payouts are done once weekly via mass pay with no site side fees, and affy pages pay $0.20 CPM. Have I mentioned that this site rocks?! Join this one! You will only regret that you didn't join sooner. 1CentMail Not to be confused with the other sites that go by similar names, 1CentMail (or 1 Cent Mail) is a fabulous site run by an honest and very helpful PO (program owner). This is another pretty large site with hundreds of links and emails daily. This site also has a huge affiliate page database - though each page has the standard five links, vs the beefed up eight links at Vale - and also sports a manual surfer with country targetting. This is another big earner, especially for tier 1/2 members. A must join! CashinClicks I've been a member of CashinClicks for over a year now and have really enjoyed it. The PO is very responsive and helpful and the site itself is great. There are affiliate pages called "Ledger Pages" with one 0.25c (1/4c) link monthly, one daily 1/10c link, and three daily 2 point links. There are hundreds of other PTCs and emails on the site, as well as a hangman section. Once you've saved up enough points you can convert them to cash at $0.10 cpm, use them to buy ads, or purchase rotator views with the best exchange rate I've seen (10 views per point). Another big draw is the PTP: upgraded members get access to the up to $1.00 cpm PTP! (The rate is actually set at $0.50 cpm but tier one hits receive double credits, making for an effective rate of $1.00 cpm.) Upgrades start at just $6 for six months or $10 for one year and come with a bunch of ads, or you can save up your points to buy the 10,000 point MoneyClip Upgrade though that upgrade does not include access to the PTP. Definitely recommend this site! Old Amsterdam Post Old Amsterdam Post (or OAP for short) was recently taken over by HeatherC, who also own My PTR. She's a good site owner and so far seems to be handling OAP well. The PTP rate for free members is $0.55 CPM, $0.75 CPM for upgraded members. There's a surfer, and hundreds of links and emails daily. Old Amsterdam Post uses points for advertising. Since it's a tier 1/2 only site your ads essentially get free targetting, so it's a great place to advertise your other sites. They do random payouts of over $1 if you opt in for them, or otherwise you can request payment via PayPal or AlertPay. JJClix JJClix has been transferred over to Inya - the same woman who owns and runs ValePTR. This site has $0.80CPM PTP, but only for upgraded members. There are two contest PTC areas, one worth five cents and the other $2. I've won the $2 contest, so it does happen! I have upgraded here and am very impressed with how many ads you get. You also get access to the PTP, of course, and a couple more reward games, so the upgrade is very much worth it.

Traffic Exchanges - This type of site focuses on surfing instead of paid links. These are all manual surfers, no auto surfers:

ShareAdSpace ShareAdSpace - SAS for short - gives you 0.4 credits for every site that you surf as a free member (meaning that if you surf ten sites then you get four credits to use for having your own sites surfed by other members.) SAS accepts most PTP links, which makes it a really cheap way to promote those links. Priority is given to those who surf often themselves. The interface is clean and easy to use. There actually is a small section of PTC links, and there are random cash and other rewards as you surf. If you are in the top 50 surfers from the previous day you can also earn up to $0.10 per thousand sites you surf. SAS allows you to target up to six countries or to target against up to five countries, for free. One other thing I love about this program is that you can upgrade for just a week at a time, if you wish. Upgrades come with 400-8000 extra credits (depending on upgrade level), increased credits while surfing, as well as a few other perks. Beach Party Surf Beach Party Surf also accepts PTP links from most (reputable) sites. They give you 0.6 credits per site surfed as a free member and occasional random rewards, though these don't add up to much. This is a small site with not very many links to surf, but it's a great way to promote your PTP links. They allow tiered targetting, also for free. EasyHits4U EasyHits4U gives you up to two credits per site surfed as a free member. They say they accept PTP links, but in my experience they reject most of them, so a better use for this surfer is to get exposure for non-PTP sites (for e.g. websites like the one you're reading right now!) They allow targetting, though it will cost you extra credits. The one thing very much in EasyHits4U's favor is that they pay you $0.30 per thousand sites surfed, plus award you cash and other bonuses when you reach certain milestones. So even though this surfer can't be used for most of your PTP links, it's still an easy way to make some extra cash while garnering exposure for your other sites.

The jury's still out - Sites that I enjoy but that may have drawbacks:

ClixSense Read my comparison between WordLinx and ClixSense ClixSense is a bit like WordLinx, but has more ads. As a standard member of ClixSense I earn as much as I do as a Premium member of WordLinx. ClixSense also has a cheap ($10) upgrade which I've heard is very much worth it. You can use your account balance to upgrade. ClixSense has paid me recently, and has a great reputation for paying. The big caveat to ClixSense is that they're run by the same people behind the StormPay debacle, so may not prove to be trustworthy in the long run. Because of this history I doubt that I'll ever be able to fully endorse this program, but at this point it's on my safe list. Donkey Mails A PTC/PTR site with a $0.50 cpm PTP for free members. The Donkey PTP link gets banned ocassionally for running bad third party ads, and the emails are sometimes for questionable enterprises (no adult sites, etc., just a lot of MLMs and that sort of thing.) The ads and emails are worth a decent amount (emails up to a half cent each, many PTC ads at a quarter cent each), the PTP for free members is nice, and the surfer yields ok hits on my other PTP links. The site does use points which are only redeemable for ads, but the point ads are clearly marked and in a separate section entirely. I like this site and they do pay.