India’s Secret Army of Ad Clickers
With her baby on her lap, Maya Sharma (name changed) gets down to work every evening from her eighth-floor flat at Vasant Vihar. Maya’s job is to click on online advertisements. She doesn’t care about the ads, but diligently keeps count — it’s $0.18 to $0.25 per click.A growing number of housewives, college graduates, and even working professionals across metropolitan cities are rushing to click paid Internet ads to make $100 to $200 (up to Rs 9,000) per month.
“It’s boring, but it is extra money for a couple of hours of clicking weblinks every day,” says a resident of Delhi’s Patparganj, who has kept a $300-target for the summer.
Traffic to click overseas Internet ads — from home loans to insurance — is spreading fast in India. “I have no interest in what appears when clicking an ad. I care only whether to pause 60 seconds or 90 seconds, as money is credited if you stay online for a fixed time,” says another user.
Here’s how it works: online advertisers in developed markets agree to pay hosting website each time an ad is clicked. With performance-based deals becoming dominant on the Internet, intermediaries have sprung up to “do the needful”.’ Why, type in ‘earn rupees clicking ads’ in Google — you get 25,000 results.
If you advertise online, with Google Adwords or similar programs, be aware that scammy bizops like this may be driving your costs up.
Tim on May 3rd, 2004 3:46 pm
It’s clear what we should do. We should be targeting ads towards Indian housewives. Something they cannot ignore. That could be a very huge market.
Peter T Davis on May 4th, 2004 6:48 am
I’m sure that this type of thing will kill Adsense for the advertiser and publisher. In the same way Searchking has sullied Overture.
raghuram on May 5th, 2004 5:44 am
TOI should come out with better & sensible article.
e-Controller - Thomas Rasinen on May 7th, 2004 2:40 pm
This isn’t new and comes as no surprise. Maybe CPM is the best way to advertise even on the Internet.
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Gobala on August 30th, 2004 11:48 pm
Not only that, many Indians are considerably interested in shady opportunities like stuffing envelopes, taking surveys, etc.
Any opportunity is worth a shot I guess, since the economic gap between the rich and poor in India is amazing..
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