Traffic Exchanges

Splash Page Heatmap Testing

September 20, 2008

I haven't heard of anyone doing Heatmap testing out there before, so I thought it would be fun to test some splash pages and see what happens. My first is the SuperSurfer splash page that has a bit of auto playing sound. What's interesting to note about this, is that people aren't clicking the stop [...]

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I was invited to SuperSurf!

September 1, 2008

Well for a little while now there's been this thing called SuperSurf, where 5 exchanges got together and said "Hey, if you use all of us at the same time, we'll give you a bonus!". Well I was just invited to be one of those 5! So now if you surf StartXchange, Dragon Surf, I [...]

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30 People Had A Chat Last Night

August 27, 2008

What do Bill Becker, Cindy Battye, Connie Motala, Dorena Begonia, Erzsebet Kovacs, Jackie O, Jay Hines, Jerry Reeder, Jon Olson, Josh Abbott, Justin Ledvina, Kyle Hoskins, Mike Paetzold, Pat Grilliot, Paul, Paul Kinder, Richard Taylor, Robert Puddy, Robin Bouwhuis, Sean Supplee, Solomon Huey, Soren Jordansen, Stefan Berg, Sunny Suggs, Tina, Travis Millward, William Brant, and [...]

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Giving Away Things Really Works

August 7, 2008

Ok, let's stop being slackers here. I finally did it. I finally made a splash page that gave away something free for subscribing. And guess what, it worked! I know what you are thinking..  DUH!  Am I right? But then, are you giving something out? It took a while before I did it. Because I've [...]

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Improving Your Traffic Exchange Series

July 17, 2008

I was looking at my Skribit list of suggestions, and the biggest seems to be the one about Improving Your Traffic Exchange.  So I'm going to begin a series on this and the first thing I'm going to talk about is displaying statistics. When you see a traffic exchange that has 129 members surfing, you [...]

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Smiley's Rants

July 14, 2008

It seems periodically Vern from Smiley Traffic will start ranting about something and hit on the nerves of others. And it seems lately the target has been Jon Olson and Robert Puddy. Well I wanted to get your thoughts on all this. I've been working and interacting with both Robert and Jon for years, and [...]

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HitsConnect, PageSwirl, and TEtoolbox

July 8, 2008

Well I thought it would be interesting to start tracking my rotators on each of these services. The goal was to see if mine was the best and if not to find ways to improve it so it is the best. Well lucky me it was, but this is only short term testing so I'll [...]

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Where Do I See Traffic Exchanges Going?

July 7, 2008

This was a skribit suggestion that a viewer posted, and it was one I could dive into without too much time involved.  Basically my thoughts are that traffic exchanges will generally be the same for quite some time. There might be a few gimmicks here and there, but the actual core of it will be [...]

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How To Get Attention in the TE Industry

June 26, 2008

So a few of us owners were discussing how we get all these great offers from other owners these days about credit swaps and joint ventures. We are so privileged to get them. Except for one small thing...  They typically come from people we've never heard of before, they barely use our exchanges, and the [...]

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Should I use Popups in Traffic Exchanges?

June 18, 2008

This really depends on tracking your results. If you are getting great results, then no matter how annoying they are to others you should be using them! I know I know, as a surfer you hate being annoyed. But how annoying is it if people are taking you up on the offer on it? That [...]

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What is your exchange rated?

June 17, 2008

I know there are many traffic exchange owners out there subscribed to this blog. I think it's great, and I'll be going into more topics specific to them in the future. I created a little rating system a week or so ago but didn't post about it, and wanted to do that now. Basically this [...]

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Video: Copying a Splash Page to TEtoolbox

June 11, 2008

To view my video you'll need Javascript and Flash installed and enabled. If you are using noscript please allow "cdn.timlinden.com" This actually comes up often. The page I showed here was none other than Paul Kinder's page! Yes, even a traffic exchange owner asked me how to get it in. It's really easy once you [...]

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Splash Pages Reviewed x2

June 9, 2008

"Bears At Joybunnys Art Designs" to me sounds more like a title of a page, rather than a headline to grab my attention. You might do better showcasing bears for upcoming seasons or holidays. For instance "Father's Day" in the US is next Sunday. I'd also just keep one photo centered, rather than two spaced [...]

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The Dirty Truth About Affiliate Links

June 6, 2008

They don't work in traffic exchanges! Most affiliate links are not designed nor optimized for the massive amounts of traffic coming from hit exchanges. This alone should be enough for you to stop advertising them! I recently posted how Aweber rejected traffic exchanges. They simply could no longer handle the massive amounts of untargetted traffic [...]

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Spotting Bad Traffic Exchanges Part 7: Where are the Results?

June 5, 2008

This is it, this is the finale! The saving the best for last. The results. That's where it's all at. If you don't get results, who cares about traffic? Why advertise if you don't get anything out of it? What's the point? What's your Goal This can be different depending on what you are going [...]

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Video Response to Jon Olson's Rant

May 30, 2008

You can view his Rant here and him mentioning it in Hit Exchange News here. Sorry for the video quality, it sounds like I can't talk properly. However the version I have inside Pinnacle sounds great, but when uploaded to YouTube it was just black video and great sound. Then messing with windows movie maker [...]

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Spotting Bad Traffic Exchanges Part 6: Where are the Hits?

May 28, 2008

First comes the traffic, then comes the results. Without traffic, you can't get results. So this week I will focus on the quantity of traffic,  next week I will focus on the quality of traffic. How To Track Your Traffic Before you can do this, you'll need to be able to properly track your traffic. [...]

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Splash Pages Reviewed

May 27, 2008

Holly - thephantomsgirl - http://myfreebies4u.com The first thing I noticed about this page is that it really isn't a splash page. There is too much going on here. 3 large videos, lots of text, lots of links. I counted about 12. Then the text is a bit too hard to read, and scattered about. If [...]

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Aweber is Rejecting Traffic Exchanges

May 24, 2008

Well this is an interesting tidbit. Apparently Aweber is sending emails to traffic exchange owners saying to cease and desist: Our logs indicate that you have configured an automatic traffic generating service to direct visitors to your AWeber affiliate link. Unfortunately, these services generally only send untargeted, massively large quantities of traffic that generate nothing [...]

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May 18th-24th 2008

May 24, 2008

New "Tim's Weekly Traffic Exchange Results". I'm going to be posting the top 10 exchanges I'm getting results from, and the stats. I've only included exchanges I received 1000 hits or more from. trafficroundup.com (1,716 @ 0.52%) clickranch.com (1,173 @ 0.51%) royalsurf.com (3,187 @ 0.41%) traffic-splash.com (10,971 @ 0.38%) blue-surf.net (4,866 @ 0.27%) dragonsurf.biz (1,489 [...]

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