From the category archives:

Traffic Exchanges

Come Vote Surf!

January 30, 2008

Ok so Jens suggested a "hot or not" style voting for splash pages, and I integrated one into the StartXchange surfbar. So now while the timer is counting you can rate the pages from 1-5. You'll even get extra activity points as you surf each time you rate! I've been surfing and I'm hooked! I [...]

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Temporarily Lowering Surfbar Timers

January 24, 2008

This happens all the time, an exchange decides to lower their surfbar timer woo hoo! But is it really a good thing? I'm not a big fan on altering the surfbar timer. I can see that to those surfing at the time, they get more value for their time surfing. But what about the other [...]

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StartXchange Site Scanner

January 7, 2008

So today I got a PM from someone, it was a reply to the site scanner deleting their website from rotation.  So I loaded up the site in my browser, and couldn't find the iframe! Then I loaded up the site scanner on it, and it spotted it in a heartbeat.  It was one of [...]

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50% Surfing Bonus

December 26, 2007

If you sent me a Christmas Card, you should have an extra surfing bonus on StartXchange. If you don't, one of two things happened: 1) I didn't get the card (yet?) 2) The username wasn't written, or I couldn't make it out. So if you don't have that 50% bonus until the 31st, plop a [...]

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Downline Integrity.. My Thoughts

December 6, 2007

It's over rated, don't waste your time jumping into the hoopla! The gist is this: Some people don't like it when a traffic exchange has an email sent out with an affiliate link inside it. So what, right? Well the hoopla is all because of the words integrity, and the implication (and in some cases [...]

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I don't really cheat

November 20, 2007

Confession: I don't really cheat.  See I created a splash page that says I create cheats, I detect cheats, etc.  Someone took that as me boasting about cheating people out of their traffic. No, I don't cheat in that way. I create and find ways to cheat, but I don't use them to actually cheat. [...]

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TE Alliance

November 16, 2007

There is a lot of buzz around the TE Alliance. There are posts about it in NMF, TMF, Jon's Blog, Soren's Blog, and now mine. The concept of people getting behind an organization to better the industry is not new. In fact, it comes up fairly often. I registered Manual Traffic Exchange and ran a [...]

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Minimum Browser Size

November 16, 2007

I recently did a poll on Average Browser Height at Net Marketing Forum. The actual average came to 462 pixels, and the closest guess was 450. Well, I'd like to continue the discussion but ask what should the window size be at a minimum? At what point is the browser too small to effectively advertise [...]

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Cheaters on TS25!

November 14, 2007

There was a thread on Net Marketing Forum questioning TS25's delivery rate. Rick replied explaining that cheaters were recently caught, and were causing the odd hits to not be delivered. What can you learn from this lesson? Cheating Happens - If an exchange claims they are cheat proof, or never admit to cheating happening, it's [...]

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Multiple Surfbars - 1 Monitor

November 12, 2007

The latest thing I've been thinking about, is people surfing multiple sites at the same time and cascading them across their screen. This isn't the tab idea, because tabs you see each exchange full page. But this is seeing all the surfbars at the same time, and pretty much only the surfbars: StartXchange has measures [...]

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Aggressive or Laid Back?

November 10, 2007

There are many times I've thought of ways a traffic exchange can be cheated, and I wonder: Should I be aggressive against it, or laid back?  The reason it is difficult, is most of the time it's something very few will understand from a technical aspect. Just about every cheat prevention has a drawback. Accessability. [...]

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Tr.icking Spa.m Fil.ters

November 9, 2007

I receive emails all the time, where a bunch of the words have periods in them to "trick" spam filters into thinking it's legit. I've also noticed most of these come from traffic exchange owners. I don't think it's a good idea for two reasons: 1) It's annoying to read 2) Many spam filters know [...]

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Traffic Competition, Day 5!

November 6, 2007

Wow! That's all I can say. I thought StartXchange would do good, but I didn't think it would scoop up 35% of the votes! You can see the full stats here. It's only day 5, so things can change. There is plenty more time for people to vote. What do you think about the competitions? [...]

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Get informed while you Surf!

November 4, 2007

So I'm listening to the TE Podcast and surfing StartXchange. While this might not be the most exciting new thing to do, I figured I'd do a quick post about it in case you didn't know about it. It's good to know what's going on, and if you don't feel like reading forum posts when [...]

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2007 Traffic Competitions

October 20, 2007

I've decided to run some traffic exchange contests. The first 2007 Traffic Competition will be based on a popularity vote. If your favorite traffic exchange is not StartXchange, contact the owner and ask if they'll be participating in the competition!

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Charging for Stats

October 19, 2007

I've wanted to charge for the Traffic Exchange List reports for quite some time. Much like Hoopla does. However, I don't know a good price point. What do you think it's worth? For a long time I've wanted to keep it free too. But it reaches a point where there are only so many exchanges [...]

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Splash Page Results

October 15, 2007

I recently told you about two splash pages I created to advertise my blog. Well I've sent some traffic, and received some results. Quite interesting: Splash Page 1:  2,376 Views, 36 Signups, 1.51% Ratio Splash Page 2:  2,263 Views, 38 Signups, 1.67% Ratio While splash page 2 did receive more signups, it's interesting that it's [...]

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Creating PHP Splash Pages

October 11, 2007

Program owners take note! If you've ever wanted to turn a splash page into a splash page your users can use, you'll want to bookmark this page. It's very simple but if you don't know how to do it, where do you start? 1. Create the Splash Page in normal, dull, HTML This is the [...]

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Tracking Splash Pages with Analytics

October 10, 2007

You want to know which splash pages are performing? Well you need to track! I'll show you how I am tracking with Google Analytics. It's easy, and I'm wondering how I can make this post any longer because it's so easy to explain too. Step 1: Add the Analytics Code. Find the code by clicking [...]

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My Second Splash Page

October 5, 2007

A few days ago I created a splash page and posted about it. In the comments there was some talk about more of a focus on traffic exchanges, since it was being advertised in traffic exchanges after all. Well I created a second splash page. The only change was the paragraph of text. See the [...]

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