The Problem With Paid To Read Programs

As a stay at home mom I have been desperate to find a way to create any additional income online and be able to stay at home with my children at the same time. So of course I signed up for several Paid-To-Read / Paid-To-Click programs and I would recieve several hundred emails in my email inbox every day. In fact, it was quite overwhelming to me. I would click for hours non-stop, thinking that I was going to produce some decent money. The clicks ranged between 0.25 of a cent upwards of 1 cent each. I figured I was doing very well. Clicking and reading all the ads made me feel as though I was doing something productive with my time. It was a huge accomplishment for me to be able to meet a $1 payout and recieve it in my Pay Pal. It is crazy how you feel about a dollar when you just spent so many hours making it. It took me a long time to realize that I was spending way too many hours a day on Paid-To-Click and Paid-To-Read programs just to make that one dollar. In addition, it was way too time consuming and took me away from my children. I started to feel terrible about what kind of mother I was becoming. The PTC / PTR programs also put tons of crap on my computer because I was visiting hundreds of web pages every day. Some of the more popular paid-to-read programs out there today are Adbux and Clixsense. Adbux says that you will make 1 cent for every ad you click and 1 cent for every ad your referrals click. Adbux excitingly proclaims that you can make 10 cents a day. It gets even better, if you get 10 referrals under you who also click 10 ads per day you will earn a whole $1 a day. I don't know about you, but for me working to get 10 referrals under me so I can make $1 per day doesn't really seem like it is worth the effort. I mean, why should people commit to a program so that they can make 10 pennies per day when there are other more profitable ways to make money online? I also checked out Clixsense and they seem more professional to me than Adbux does, but I still do not think that either one of them are worth spending much of any time on. Considering you will literally be making pennies per hour, you would have to use your entire day reading ads to make much. You may be wondering how I make money online if I don't participate in these free paid-to-read and paid-to-click programs. It is simple, I use a different type of free programs that pay me several dollars a day from as opposed to several pennies. I do this by doing free surveys, participating in free offers and writing articles. Doing so allows me to make much more than I could ever get by simply reading ads. I have been keeping track of my online earnings and the best resources to make money online using only free, legitimate programs that really pay well. You are welcome to find out what I use and how much I have made online by visiting my blog-Working for Financial Independence.