What is Autosurfing?

Autosurf Programs are designed for people who have online businesses and wish to receive traffic or "hits" to their websites. Basically, the industry was created for Web Traffic Exchange. Web Traffic Exchange means that for every website that you view, you earn one credit. Each credit that you earn is one hit that your website will receive from being placed into the autosurf rotation. People who wish to receive traffic to their websites also purchase hits from Autosurf programs. These Autosurf Programs then create an income opportunity for people by paying them to view the websites and create the "hits" that are purchased by the online businesses.

How can I make money with an Autosurf Program?

Autosurf programs pay you a daily percentage on your membership level. Your membership level is the amount of money that you spend on advertising in the autosurf program. This is NOT an investment. In the industry, it is usually called an "upgrade". Each day you must view a certain number of websites. Once you view the websites the percentage is added to your cash balance. Your autosurf program will have a set number of days for a cycle to last before you cash out, and your upgrade expires. (If you miss a days surfing you lose the revenue you would have earned by doing so... I suppose it's just like missing going to work for a day... you don't get paid.) Then your program will begin the process of sending the money to your payment processor.

What is my risk?

The risk involved with any autosurf program is that no-one actually knows exactly how long a program will stay in business. The autosurf industry is high-risk, high-return and many programs never make it past infancy. My advice is "don't risk more than you can afford to lose." and take advice from successful money makers, BEFORE joining a NEW program.

Can I get paid to tell others about autosurfing?

Most programs will also allow you to earn a significant amount of income by referring others into your program. You can earn anywhere from 1%-15% of your referrals' Upgrade level depending on the program. The amazing thing about having referrals is that you get paid the percentage (1%-15%) of their upgrade EVERY TIME they upgrade!!! For instance: Let's say I refer Bob into my program, and my program offers a 12% referral incentive. Bob decides to upgrade with $1000.00. I get paid 12%, so I make $120.00. But that's not all. If Bob upgrades again in 12 days with another $1000.00 I get paid another $120.00!!! This will occur every time that Bob upgrades! Now you can see the benefit of having referrals! Even if you have only purchased a low upgrade, you receive the same commission on your referral's upgrades, every time they re-purchase. By compounding your commissions with your own profits, you can substantially increase your own upgrade levels and the amount you then earn.

F.A.T. Frequently Asked Terms

Here is a list of terms and definitions that you should familiarize yourself with if you want to be successful not only in understanding what you are doing, but also in explaining the autosurf industry to others.

Get Paid To Autosurf: Autosurfing is part of an industry called "get paid to" or GPT. Autosurfing is a Traffic Exchange. I sign up to be a member of an autosurf program. I am then eligible to enter my site URL into the autosurf site rotation monitor. As I view other member's sites, I get credits. Each credit earned puts my site into the site rotation once, per credit earned. For instance: If I view 30 pages, I earn 30 credits, which means my site will be viewed 30 times. That is traffic exchange, by means of an autosurfing program.

Terms
	Account Balance:	This is your earnings, the amount you can withdraw from.
	Account Level:  (Membership Level)	Is based on the amount of upgrade units you purchase. If each upgrade unit is $1, and the autosurf program allows a maximum of 1000 units. If you purchase 100 units, then your membership level is: $100 (100/1000 upgrade units) @ $1 per upgrade unit.
	Allocate:	How you designate number of credits to your site.
	Banner:	Use this to advertise your referral ids on other website to earn referral commission.
	Cash Out:	You cash out the day that your upgrade expires. Meaning the money begins processing from your autosurf program to your payment processor.
	Cash Balance:	Each day when you surf, you will get paid a percentage of your upgrade. Once you have surfed the allotted pages and earned to allotted credits. Your autosurf program will increase the cash balance but the allotted percentage. Cash Balance is a holding cell for your money, once your upgrade expires and you cash out, then your Cash Balance will be processed to your payment processor.
	Compound:	Reapplying your profit (accrued profit), with your original capital to maximize your earnings.
	Credits:	What you earn while surfing, used to advertise your site.
	Downline:	The people that you have referred to a program, you earn a percentage of the money they upgrade with.
	Earnings:	This is what you make daily for surfing, or from your referral income.
	Forum:	An online community used for sharing information.
	Hits:	How many times your website has been shown in the site rotation. Also term used for how many sites you watched while surfing.
	Paid Holiday:	If a program is inaccessible for a pre-defined amount of time, for a Majority of members, it will be declared a paid Holiday, and all members will not have to surf that day, and will be paid for it.
	Payment Processor:	An online money handling facility that processes upgrades to your program and payments to you from your program.
	Payout:	When your account balance is processed to you. Some are automated and some are manual meaning you have to request a payout. Make sure you read the terms and conditions of your particular program.
	Referral:	These are the people that you recommended to join your autosurf program. You generally receive a percentage of the amount they spend to upgrade. Make sure you read the terms and conditions of your particular program because this amount varies.
	Rotation:	This is where your website link or image is placed to be viewed by other members, and where you will watch other members pages. This is what you watch to make your daily earnings.
	Website:	Your website that is shown in the rotation for advertisements.
	Sponsor:	This is the person that referred you to your program.
	Surf:	Viewing the daily advertisement of websites.
	Start Surfing:	This is the button you press to start the daily surfing.
	Ticket:	A number assigned to an issue being handled by support team of your program. Generally, this is how you will contact your programs admin.
	Upgrade:	In the autosurfing industry it is NOT considered an investment. You are paying a non-returnable advertising fee, which allows you to expose your website to other surfers and to earn a % of your upgrade fee until the upgrade expires. Money paid to you by an autosurf is earned by you for your use of the services they offer and is NOT considered "interest".
	URL:	URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. A URL is the address of a website on the World Wide Web. To visit a website, you type the URL into a browser. (Internet Explorer)
	Userid:	The number that is assigned to you when you register. It can be found at the end of your referral link.
	User Name:	The name you call yourself when registering.
	Withdrawal:	When you request earnings from your account balance.

Is Autosurfing Legal?

Are autosurf programs the same as Ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes, or multi-level marketing?

Here are the definitions of these terms:

Ponzi Scheme: A swindle in which early investors/members are paid with sums obtained from later ones in order to create the illusion of profitability.

Pyramid Scheme: A fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit; when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in.

Multi-level marketing (MLM) (also called network marketing (NM)) is a legitimate business model which utilizes a combination of direct marketing and franchising. Typically, individuals become associated with a parent company in an independent contractor relationship. Sellers are compensated based on their sales of a product or service, as well as the sales of those they bring into the business. Obviously, whilst the majority of MLM businesses are legitimate, some unscrupulous people use this model for illegal ventures.

Autosurf programs are created for traffic exchange. You view other members' websites and in return your site gets viewed by other members. When you join an autosurf program you are never required to pay any amount of money. You are given a certain amount of days to upgrade your account or else they will delete your account. The referral program is optional. You can still make an incredible amount of money without ever telling a single soul. It is your option to upgrade and pay to advertise and, as a result, be provided with the opportunity to earn a daily percentage of your account level by viewing a certain number of other members sites daily. Solid, reliable paid autosurf programs have additional revenue streams or business ventures supporting member payouts, or they reinvest the membership fees to earn a higher percentage than what they are paying out to members. You are not required to pay a fee, you are not required to recruit, and payouts are backed by additional revenue streams. That is what makes them legal.

How Autosurf Programs Can Pay So Much

Autosurf Programs usually pay you a fixed daily percentage on your investment. The most stable programs are those paying lower percentages such as 1-2% daily. With 1% daily, using the compounding option you can earn up to 1000% in a year. All you need to do is upgrade your account and surf every day a fixed amount of sites. This is how autosurfing works and you don't really have to sit in front of your computer and watch all the sites, you can just start the program surfing and go away. (View our other tips on how to surf 30 Autosurfs in less than 1 hour!)

1% daily may not seem like a lot to you, actually it is enough that many people quit their real jobs and now just autosurf for a living. In just an hour of surfing daily they make as much money, or more than they were making in a week at their 9-5 jobs. So by now you should be interested in how this really works, exactly how the autosurf program owners are able to pay so much money to their members?

In fact the answer is quite complex. Diversification in the theme of a Premier autosurf site. There are many potential money sources for an autosurf owner.

The first and major source of income is member's upgrades. A constant stream of new members and new upgrades is vital to any autosurf program. Remember, all traditional retail outlets need new sales to stay in business! Part of the money invested by new members is used to pay the older members. This may sound too simple and ponzi, but the Premier programs do much more than that to stay in this business. Other income sources are needed for a program to continue running and grow.

Advertising is a very important source of income for autosurf program owners. All autosurf programs generate millions of hits, and autosurf owners interested in advertising for their sites are willing to pay for a portion of those hits.

Some programs are also investing in other high yield investment companies, including HYIPs and other autosurf programs. If a program owner is paying 1% daily, the owner can invest that money into another autosurf program paying more than 1%, and with the right strategy, using compounding, he can produce much more than 365% in a year. The same program owner can also invest in a higher yield program and easily generate enough money to make the payouts, but the risk is always higher on the higher percentage companies.

Some autosurf programs provide hosting services, professional design, marketing tools and auctions sites. Such sources of income provide the owner's strong revenue streams.

A few of the larger autosurf programs use their own payment processors. Payment processors charge fees of up to 6.9% from every transaction.

Some autosurf programs also provide other money making opportunities to their members, like paid to click. A program with a few thousand members may earn thousands of dollars monthly.

Also keep in mind that not all the members surf every day. So anytime the member doesn't surf the required amount of sites, more money stays in the program.

We hope that this will give you a little insight into how autosurf programs can pay so much.

The power of Compounding Interest

Compound: (Technical Definition) To compute (return) on the principal and accrued return.

Basically what you do when you compound, is you take your initial funding, and the return earned from that funding and you roll the return and the initial funding combined back into a new funding.

For example, if you have an upgrade purchase of $100 for one year and you earned 1% commission daily. At the end of one month you earned $30 in commission. (Assuming that your program pays 1% commission daily, your return comes to 30% monthly: $30). At the end of the month you compound or withdraw the return for that month. If you choose to withdraw, you will receive your $30. You can then continue surfing and earning $30 each month, withdrawing your profit. At the end of 12 months you will have earned 365 dollars. (This is a 365% return on your initial upgrade purchase.)

Now let's talk about compounding your earnings. If you have a funding of $100 and you earned 1% daily. At the end of one month you earned $30 return. To compound you will roll the $30 into the next funding. So you will upgrade your account with the $30 and now have a level of $130. You will then earn $39 after compounding. After 12 months of compounding your returns you will have earned $2329.78. (This is over 2000% return on your original upgrade purchase!)

Here is a diagram:

Funding per month + Return accrued	Return accrued
$100.00 (Initial funding)	(30%) $30
$130.00	($130 + 39) $169
$169.00	($169 + $50.70) $219.70
$219.70	($219.70 + $65.91) $285.61
$285.61	($285.61 + $85.68) $371.29
$371.29	($371.29 + $111.39) $482.68
$482.68	($482.68 + $144.80) $627.48
$627.48	($627.48 + $188.24) $815.72
$815.72	($815.72 + $244.72) $1060.44
$1060.44	($1060.44 + $318.13) $1378.57
$1378.57	($1378.57 + $413.57) $1792.14
$1792.14	($1792.14 + $537.64) $2329.78

This little example demonstrates the Power of Compounding. You can see how easy it is to earn more money on paid to surf programs by using the compounding option.

Remember if you are in a new autosurf you may want to build your trust before returning all your profit. However, if your autosurf has a proven track record and you trust them, then by all means use the compound option and watch your fund grow like a weed!

Alternatively, you can do as I do, take a percentage of my profit and roll that over into other autosurfs, thereby compounding my returns and reducing my risk overall, by working several programs at a time. If any single program goes out of business, I still have the others earning. I never introduce any new money into these programs, only earning from the others.