My early days being scammed (as a newbie) in the PTC world!

Yep, i'm not ashamed to admit it! i was greedy, naive and lots of other things as well....and that is why i fell victim to a scam!

Back in my early days, when i was still a very fresh newbie to the whole PTC scene, i was in a rush to make a few bucks -Dollars nogal! So lo and behold i was suckered into joining and clicking away like crazy….. u know these kind of opportunities come along sort of always at the right time (for them at least)…..

Here i was a very fresh newbie, ripe for the picking!

How did it happen? Well, i was busy clicking away and being a newbie, was looking out for more sites to register with - you know, more sites more money - when i came across this absolutely awesome site, 'elephant mails', and they were really offering 'ELEPHANTASTIC' payouts. My mind went into overdrive, automatically...i signed...immediately!!!!!!!!

Who in their right mind was going to refuse such exceptional click rewards, with such a low payout? NOT ME CERTAINLY!! Would you refuse the following? :

• Free Memberships
• All Emails Worth $500
• All ptc worth $100 $50
• $2000 signup bonus
• $200 referral bonus
• Redeemption starts only $10000

It took me a few days to reach payout! Shu....$10000 ...here i come!!!

WAS I DISSAPOINTED......!!! :-(

I get too.....i don't even know what to call it....just thinking about it...!!!! I won't bore you with the details of my struggle to obtain payout! That's a story all on it's own.

Well the rest is history. I'm actually glad it happened to me so early, actually right in the beginning of my PTC 'career'.

I've learnt to:

• Research
• check out what others say
• be patient
• stay with the tried and tested

and most of all...to believe in the old maxim: 'if it sound too good to be true....it probably isn't'

After that i told myself never AGAIN!!!

Increasing traffic using social media

I'm still a newbie at this and only recently decided to increase my blog exposure. One of the ways, of late, that is getting a lot of 'webplay' is using social platforms such as Facebook, Youtube, etc. to this. For me it is still a bit complicated - it probably isn't, but then again i haven't tried hard enough or even spent  time (of which i don't have much) figuring it out.

And this is precisely the point....time to figure it out! Most people like myself - the casual internet blogger or part time share trader, are very busy, we don't have time to still figure things out. So i've opted for a more straigtforward and uncomplicated way of trying to increase traffic and also my blog rank, by registering on what is called blog aggregators. In simple terms, it is a site that lists blogs...basically!

It took my fancy because i don't have to learn or do anything different...but blog! You also get an opportunity (on 1 site) to peek at other blogs and get an idea of what makes them successful.

I've joined 2 so far:

•  http://www.socialpress.co.za/ - i like the nice clean layout of the site. It is fairly new and gives you a chance to grow with it. I've already learnt plenty from likeminded people on this site.
• http://www.afrigator.com/ - the site is described as the largest blog aggregator in Africa, has won several awards and has a good Alexa rating.

I'm sure it's gonna well worth investing my time in a few extra comments on these sites.