Pay per install is currently being used by many people online to generate thousands of dollars monthly… some people are making a full time income with it.

I’ve personally made a few hundred with Pay Per Install (PPI) using the ‘celebrity screensaver method’. What you need to do is find and create screensavers of celebrities - you can buy image packages on webmaster forums cheap or just use free images off Wikipedia and Google Images. Each screensaver should be around 5-10 images long. You can create screensavers once you have the images using a program called ScreenSaver Builder 3 (free).

Once you have the screensavers, you need to package them with a PPI program. Now, if you have ethics, PPI is not for you - a lot of them install spyware and adware, however there are a few reputable ones. Zango Cash for example pays well, but has been known for installing things unwanted by users. Another good one is Vomba Cash, however there are plenty of PPI sites that you can try out. Most of them pay around $0.45 - $1.45 per install (Zango pays one of the highest).

In some cases you will be able to manually package them together, in other cases you’ll need to ask your affiliate manager to do it for you. You will eventually end up with an EXE file that you need to promote. Getting this file is easy, but how do you promote it?

Pay Per Click. Programs like Google Adwords work well for this niche - you can generally get clicks at $0.05 - $0.1 and you’ll see a 25 - 50% conversion (depending on your landing page, I’ve seen higher).

If you spend $100 to get 1,000 visitors and you see just a 25% conversion, you make around a $150 profit (taking an average of $1 per install). Make sure you only allow USA traffic so that you’re not wasting money on low paying countries.

Torrents. Torrents are great for promoting PPI as people that use them are not very tech-aware - the type of screensavers that do best on torrents are ones starring famous adult models. If you upload in bulk, you can easily see a 1-200 installs daily.

Celeb Forums. Again, people that use celeb forums do not tend to be tech-aware. You can create threads with titles like ‘Free XYZ Celeb Screensaver’.

Blog Commenting. Comment on high profile celeb blogs (like Perez Hilton) and link to your landing page. Comment with your screensaver title (ex Jessica Alba Screensavers) as your anchor text.

Of course, there are other ways to get installs… be creative. Develop your own ideas and put some work into it and you can make $100/day.

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