Internet Marketing Tycoon

**Josh** · 07:39 PM

Got a random e-mail today, and thought I'd see if anyone else has tried this company or been contacted by them. It seems fishy to me because I had just put my site back online after about a year of inactivity. At the moment, my site is just a blank page with some text.

Anyone heard of them?

www.payclick.org

**vangogh** · 11-14-2006, 07:36 PM

The link you posted doesn't seem to be working for me so I can't really say anything with certainty. But if it sounds fishy it most likely is. What were they saying in the email?

**Josh** · 11-14-2006, 07:39 PM

Woops, no hyphen. Sorry about that.

http://www.PayClick.org

Here's the e-mail:

We would like to pay to advertise at 'twistedportal.com'.

If you are interested, then please complete a very short form at:
http://www.PayClick.org

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This email is in response to your previous submission to the FTPPro Search Engine, which may have been generated by your submission to one of the multiple search engine robots. We expect to release the FTPPro Search Engine in several weeks, and would like to know which websites are accepting ads. We apologize if we are responding to an outdated submission.

If you do not want to receive any future email messages from FTPPro, then click this link to REMOVE your website from the FTPPro Search Engine:
http://ftppro.com/e.cgi?i=17919&t=3&s=5

I have no idea what that bottom part is referring to.

**vangogh** · 11-14-2006, 08:14 PM

Looks like they want you to add their ads to your site. The email makes it sound like they want to pay you, but I'm guessing the pay is only when somenone clicks.

The terms of service do say that their advertisers get to deicde what is and isn't an invalid click which sounds a little odd to me. Why wouldn't an advertiser just decide all the clicks are invalid and never pay.

I can't tell you whether or not they're legit, but the site doesn't look impressive to me. And my guess is you would make more money using any of the contextual advertisers out there like AdSense or YPN.

I would think the best thing to do is ignore the email.

**Josh** · 11-15-2006, 04:58 AM

I think that would be best.

Thanks though. Just thought I'd check on it.

**uploadline** · 11-22-2006, 06:21 PM

is it as good as google

**Josh** · 11-22-2006, 08:06 PM

I didn't try it, looked too odd to me.