What are your opinions on sites like http://bux.to? I've been considering opening my own, but do you think it'd work? I already have a great template in mind.
First of all its not a PPC, its a PTC, you get paid to click ads. What this means is that the advertiser is being delivered the worst possible traffic that will not convert.
Iv been using bux.to and if your planning to open a site like that u will for sure need to get some trust from other people, cause they will think that you scam them. Also there are like milion PTC sites so it will be kinda hard to get on "surface"
I have one also, they're not the worst site to run or own, you will get some satisfaction once it's up and running, to get it off the ground run some promo's and give some referral rewards, if you don't need quality traffic to sites these are ideal. If interested I recently purchased an existing one and updated it : http://clixhaven.com
I'm not for sure why PTC sites have got such a bad rap as an advertising revenue. I run a ptc site and have many satisfied advertisers that gain many purchases, sign-ups, exposure, increased Alexa rating and more. I guess if the ptc site is over run by autoclcikers or does not have any fraud protection, this could be a problem, but at my site these are unique human visitors who could very well be intrigued by your site and decides to join-up or purchase. If the advertisers site is un-original and offers no interesting content or products, of course you will not receive many conversions, as you will not with any traffic.