Myster-E-Mail
Myster-E-Mail is the paid to read program that will get you the most links to click. You will definitely not want this one coming to your primary email address. Instead sign up for it using your paid to read email address.
When choosing your interests in this one, be very careful not to click anything that seems odd, such as “Delete my account”, or “I’m a cheater”. Those are there to catch people who are using software to automatically sign up for all interests.
Also, when clicking on ad banners, if you ever see a banner that says “Don’t click here” and is red, then don’t click on it. You won’t earn money, and it’s another auto-surfing trap. This trap banner looks like this:
There are a lot of ways to earn with Myster-E-Mail.
First, you’ll get a lot of email with links to click. A couple of things to be careful of with these emails. Some of the links are non-paid links. The paid links will be in the middle of the email. Sometimes there will be more than one paid link in an email (the subject of the email will tell you how many paid links there are). Be sure to click on all the paid links.
The paid links will look something like this: http://www.myster-e-mail.com/scripts/runner.php?EA=200704210324247579 , but so will some of the unpaid links. Any link that isn’t like that is an advertiser’s link, to be ignored.
When you click on a paid link, you’re shown the advertiser’s web site with the usual header across the page. After some amount of time (anything fron 5 to 40 seconds, but shorter times are more usual with Myster-E-Mail) it will say that your account has been credited.
Don’t just close the window! Look in the upper right of the header. If you see something like this:
Then you can get paid more by clicking on the banner in the upper right. Go ahead and click on it to get to a new advertiser’s page. The new page may also display something like this after your account has been credited. Follow the chain until you see the trap banner from above in the upper right. When you see the trap banner, close the window.
You can also earn by going to the Myster-E-Mail website.
Under the Member menu, click the Paid2Click link to display more banners you can get paid to click. These work exactly like the links you click in the emails.
If you’re over 21 you can use the Adult PTC link to click on adult banners for pay.
Other links in the Members menu that provide pay to click banners include: Good PTR Programs, AutoSurf Programs, Manual Surf Programs, and Paid-to-Promote Programs.
It’s a good idea to check these areas daily and click all the banners you can, until you only have the trap banner left in each one.
The majority of the other links lead to other web sites that I don’t pretend to understand. I suspect they’re some sort of affiliate feeder for the people who run Myster-E-Mail.
While many of the clicks on Myster-E-Mail are low paying, there are a lot of them.
Myster-E-Mail has an upgrade option, for a $17 one-time-fee. This gives you the option to receive referrals who sign up at the site with no sponsor. You can also place banners into the network each month for free. This sounds like a decent deal, but upgrading is not simple. You must send them the $17 via PayPal and then send an ad to be sent out, and wait to be upgraded.
One technique to use with Myster-E-Mail is to use whatever keyboard shortcut in your web browser allows you to open a link in a new window. When you click on ad banners on their site, you can open them in a new window or tab (control+left click in Firefox) one right after the other. Their script doesn’t check to see if you have more than one open at a time, so you can work your way through the banners quite quickly.
If you’re using a Gmail account under Firefox, here’s a tip for processing Myster-E-Mails quickly. Go into your account settings in Gmail and turn on Keyboard Shortcuts. Open a Myster-E-Mail and find the paying link. Hold down the Control key and left click the link. The link opens in a new tab, but you stay in the Gmail tab. Press the # key on the keyboard to delete the email. Open the next email and repeat. By the time you’ve processed all the Myster-E-Mail messages, you have a lot of tabs and the timer has expired on all of them. Check each to see if there’s a paying link at the top to click, and close them if not.
One of the nice things about Myster-E-Mail is that you’ll have no trouble getting your money out of them. There’s no minimum payout, and in fact they automatically pay you now and again. In the beginning you’ll get a lot of 10 and 12 cent payments to your PayPal account showing up now and then.
Update: Many of the Myster-E-Mail links on the website are worth only $0.0001 (one one hundredth of a cent). Those aren’t really worth the time it takes to click them. What I do these days is make a pass through the site every couple of days, and click any links that are worth at least a quarter of a cent. I don’t click links in many of the emails they send, since there are so many, but I do a few now and then. My payouts have dropped to about 7 cents each time, but the amount of time I spend on the program is far less. So for me the tradeoff is worth it.