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Incentria's PTP - why the valid hits are so low
July 25, 2009

I've been a member of Incentria for a couple months now, and keep wavering between quitting or not. There are very few ads every day, at least as a free member, and they're worth a low amount for a PTC site (usually 0.1 - 1/10 - cent) so it just doesn't add up to much. I typically make around 1-2 cents a day after clicking 10-20 links, which have to be clicked alone (no multiclicking allowed, which is where you can click on multiple links at the same time). I'm not sure this site is worth my time. However, the one thing keeping me there was their PTP.

Incentria offers a $0.10 CPM PTP. CPM means credits per thousand, so they give you ten cents for every thousand valid (not raw) hits to your PTP link. (PTP = Paid to Promote. See my Glossary page for an explanation of PTP.) $0.10 CPM is a pretty poor rate, but it's also no tier. This means that even hits from what would typically be considered low tier countries at another site - and thus make you very little if any money to your PTP account - give you the same amount of credits as hits from high tier countries.

This sounds somewhat reasonable, and you might be able to make money off Incentria's PTP if you can get your hands on some really cheap or even free clicks, so you don't have to pay more than that $0.10 CPM. I had been using my extra EasyHits4U (see Links page for more info) credits for Incentria. I use EasyHits4U largely for the $0.30 CPM they offer and for getting some traffic to this site. I never use all my credits there and they don't accept any of the other PTP links I have, so I had been putting my extras toward Incentria.

Well, that's gonna change. After trying for months to get my valid percentage of hits at Incentria up to a less abysmal number, I finally discovered why the valids there are so low compared to most sites. Most PTP sites give you credit for each unique click to your specific PTP link in a 24 hour window (meaning if a person clicks your link multiple times in 24 hours you only get credit for once, but if ten unique people click your link in those 24 hours you get credit for ten clicks, etc.). Incentria does things differently: they only give you credit for each entirely unique click to Incentria's site within a 24 hour window. In other words, the only time you get credit for a person clicking on your Incentria PTP link is if that person has not visited Incentria at all in the past 24 hours. It doesn't matter if they saw it in a surf window, by clicking someone else's PTP link elsewhere, by visiting the site on purpose, etc. If they've visited the site that day by any means you do not get credit for them visiting the site via your PTP link.

I can actually understand why Incentria would do this. It makes sense from their perspective to not pay for the same person visiting their site multiple times a day. But on the other hand, it makes the PTP pretty much worthless. Even those cheap or free hits would be put to better use than a 10% valid rate on a $0.10 CPM PTP link. It's just not worth it to me.

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