Traffic Exchanges

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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My Splash Page

October 1, 2007

I've been advertising a splash page on StartXchange now. I've only sent 50 hits to it, but I've gotten 1 subscription. So that's why I wanted to show you what it looks like. I'll tell you why I did what, and then a week or so from now I'll repost after I've had a good [...]

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The Woe's of Traffic Delivery

September 21, 2007

Traffic was flying out the door on StartXchange. Now it seems to be 50% of the rate you set. When it was flying, I could deliver the rate you wanted. In fact, I had to give away a bunch of traffic to keep sites in rotation. Well I sent out some PMs explaining to those [...]

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StartXchange Notifier

September 18, 2007

StartXchange has a 10% bonus when 100 or more are surfing. And sometimes I increase those bonuses. Want to know when it's bonus time? Install the StartXchange Notifier! This little guy will sit in your taskbar and display the number of people surfing. It'll check every 60 seconds and when you click it, it'll open [...]

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Managing Traffic Exchanges

September 10, 2007

I'm working on a script that will login to the traffic exchanges that I use, and save my account stats. That way I can easily see which exchanges I'm low on credits without having to login to 100 different sites. But..  Not everyone has the skillz to do that. So, how do you manage traffic [...]

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TCN Traffic Exchange

August 16, 2007

I've been thinking about what I want to do with TCN Traffic Exchange. It is no longer an interest of mine to develop it further, but I know there is still interest. Many people enjoy the script and prefer it, so what do I do? I could discontinue it, and have a "Final 30 Day [...]

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Traffic Exchange Reach

July 23, 2007

I am now collecting statistical data on the reach of a traffic exchange. By reach, I mean what percentage of traffic exchange users as a whole does a particular exchange have. This information is quite useful..  If you want to broaden the people you are advertising to, advertise more on an exchange with a greater [...]

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The flaws of tracking exchanges

July 19, 2007

Say you were coaching a basketball team. You had one guy that never scored, but the most assists on the team. Would you fire him? That's how I look at traffic exchanges and tracking. Or lack of. I say lack of, because how do you know which exchanges gave that click an assist? Statistically they [...]

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Don't Block Your Splash Page

June 28, 2007

I was just surfing and came across a site. The headline got my attention, I was reading more, and BAM something popped up covering the entire page! That something didn't interest me and oh look the timer is up! I didn't even notice the timer because I was indeed interested. But the thing that covered [...]

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Tips for Designing Splash Pages

June 21, 2007

In a recent issue of Hit Exchange News, in fact as of writing this I was notified 1 hour ago, Jon Olson wrote about a test he did that found only 30% of the pages he saw were splash pages. He also mentions a few tips on splash pages. Here are some other tips: Keep [...]

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Taguchi Testing Results

June 15, 2007

So I finished my test using Taguchi. It had some interesting results. There were 9 experiments, and each received 302 hits. Not a huge amount of traffic, but Taguchi will supposedly work on a small number. Heading Text Free Traffic & Website Promotion The Best Traffic Exchange Free Manual Traffic Exchange Link Text Click here [...]

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Hacker Safe and Taguchi Testing

June 12, 2007

StartXchange is now Hacker Safe Certified and so I've decided to test out results on a splash page to see if displaying the image actually increases click throughs. If you goto StartXchange Manual Traffic Exchange you'll see 3 images. The Hacker Safe image, an image for E-Trust-E, and an image for the Hit Exchange News [...]

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How To: Create a Splash Page

June 8, 2007

I am going to start creating How To video tutorials. My first is on Creating Splash Pages. Everyone says to use splash pages on manual traffic exchanges, but if you've never created one, how do you do that?? Well this video tutorial will teach you how by using TEtoolbox.com - A free service I created [...]

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The StartXchange Insider

June 7, 2007

I did an exclusive behind the scenes look last month, so this month I'll do an exclusive behind the scenes description of what goes on in my admin backend. The reason for just a description this time is privacy and secrecy. Showing the full pages will reveal some of the techniques I use to prevent [...]

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StartXchange Special: Get your order DOUBLED!

May 7, 2007

As a thank you for visiting my blog, or subscribing, I'll double any purchase made after this post is published. At some point I'll post a comment when the offer is closed. Please note that the special is for credits and impressions. One or the other, or both. You will also need to assign them [...]

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Combatting Traffic Exchange Cheaters

May 2, 2007

There are people who spend lots of time trying to cheat traffic exchanges. There are many ways you could be considered a cheater: Using some kind of device to surf for you Finding ways to earn credits without surfing Inserting hidden bad websites into rotation The first two are pretty easy to combat. The last [...]

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