can i really earn money by just surfing the net ?

Answer 1

Pay to surf is a business model that became popular in the late 1990s, prior to the dot-com crash. It is a type of Get-Paid-To website. Essentially a company placed advertising on members' screens and paid them from advertising earnings.

A pay-to-surf company would provide a small program, commonly called a "viewbar", to be installed on a member's computer. Advertisers' banner ads were then displayed while the member was browsing the web. Since the viewbar tracked websites that the user visited, the pay-to-surf company was able to deliver targeted ads for their advertisers. Advertisers paid the pay-to-surf company a small amount (typically US$0.50) for every hour of a member's surfing.

Members were usually limited on the amount of time per month for which they would be paid to surf (typically 20 hours). However, pay-to-surf companies also paid their members for each new user referred to the company (typically US$0.05 - US$0.10 per recruit). Thus, it was profitable for a member to garner as many referrals as possible, encouraging some users to recruit members using spam, though officially forbidden by the user's agreement.

The first and most well-known pay-to-surf company was AllAdvantage. It launched in March 1999 and grew to 13 million members in little over a year with the multi-level marketing system of recruiting new members. The scheme capitalized on the notion that anyone could make money on the internet without much effort.

AllAdvantage’s success attracted many imitators. At its peak, there were several dozen pay-to-surf companies. AllAdvantage had US$175 million in venture capital; its imitators did not and thus their members were never more than a small fraction of AllAdvantage's.

Most pay-to-surf companies disappeared just as quickly as they appeared after the dot-com crash. This is not surprising since 100% of the revenue came from internet advertising, which was the area hardest hit. After 18 months, even AllAdvantage ceased operations. At that point, AllAdvantage had paid out over US$120 million to its members. Many members of smaller pay-to-surf companies were never paid when the companies shut down.

As with many Internet business models, pay-to-surf companies attracted people trying to defraud the company out of money. First, as noted above, the companies had to deal with spammers, often having to terminate member accounts. They were also required to get parental permission from members under the age of 18, many of whom flocked to these programs as an easy source of income. Finally, utilities started appearing which allowed users to simulate surfing activity. Some users even created mechanical mouse-moving devices which ran around their desks. These programs and devices allowed users to get paid simply for leaving their machines on. This began an arms race between the pay-to-surf companies who built fraud-prevention software and fraud program developers, with each releasing increasingly sophisticated versions of their software.

As of 2006, no serious pay-to-surf programs are still targeting the United States and United Kingdom, but the practice continues in other European countries. It also lives on in new incarnations such as "Free iPod" schemes; traffic exchanges, where one earns hits to one's website instead of money; and autosurfs, which are either automatic traffic exchanges or more often HYIPs in disguise.

Answer 2

You cant earn money from just surfing the net, but their are websites you can go to and do referrals. You can refer your friends, they have to click on your link and enter information. It goes work, my friend has been doing it and earning like either 100 dollars or 400 dollars.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

That's a myth. It was sa scam from day one. I kept reading about "testimonials" from people who reportedly made money that way; however, I never heard any of my friends who tried it to actually earn anything.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

The are many work from home jobs without investment. If you want to do jobs from home without investment just contact me I will help you why means yahoo is restricting my answers for that reason i can't post the links. It is a problem with yahoo.

Answer 7

the only way i have been able to make cash online is to work for paidposting tools you get paid to post on various forums and they pay you by paypal weekly ive been doing it a while now and earn enough to buy odds and ends via ebay www.paidpostingtools.com

Answer 8

My friend was trying for 2 years,and finally he's having something from it,but too much work for too little
go to school!

Answer 9

No you can't make money. Its others who make money..through advertisement...or you can launch your own web site and get some sponsors. Keep it up man...launch your Web-site.

Answer 10

No it's a scam,if it sounds too good to be true it usually is.