Let’s Talk Clean Surfing
It’s usually the #1 complaint about a traffic exchange. Annoying sites that cause problems while surfing. So what are the methods to keeping surfing clean? Like the ranking exchanges post, I’ll try to cover the pros and cons to each.
Manually Reviewing Sites
This is the simplest check to incorporate into an exchange. Have the owner [...]
Ranking Traffic Exchanges
There are many different ways of ranking traffic exchanges, each with their pros and cons. I’ll go over a few ways here and give my opinion on them. In the end, it comes down to results which you must track for yourself. But the problem many owners face is members who don’t track their own [...]
Come Vote Surf!
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 [...]
Temporarily Lowering Surfbar Timers
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 people [...]
StartXchange Site Scanner
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 [...]
50% Surfing Bonus
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 comment [...]
