2007 Traffic Competitions

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

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 I [...]

Splash Page Results

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 not a whole [...]

Creating PHP Splash Pages

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 easy part. [...]

Tracking Splash Pages with Analytics

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 Edit [...]

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My Second Splash Page

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 first [...]