From the category archives:

Traffic Exchanges

This Week's Results

October 23, 2009

Well all this talk about traffic exchanges and rankings, and no talking about hard results. So I'm going to give you my top results for this past week. The week started Monday, but I probably will forget to post this tomorrow, and Sundays I take off, so you get it with 5 days LOL. Top [...]

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People like to give, so give for free!

October 21, 2009

One of the things I play on Facebook is Farmville. And one of the things everyone loves to do is give and receive gifts. Well, you can now give gifts on StartXchange! The gifts are 5 credits, and they don't cost you anything. So you can skip the page and not give the credits out, [...]

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Rankings, Rankings, Rankings

October 19, 2009

Everyone loves numbers. It's the reason activity points and levels work great on StartXchange. The feeling you get when you move up a level is super. It's also why I'm addicted to Farmville. In reality, that's the only reason people like to use traffic exchange rankings. The owners love em because they see they are [...]

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Changes with Traffic Exchange List

October 15, 2009

Well I've probably changed my mind a million times on Traffic Exchange List, but bear with me. There are just so many ways you could do it, but in the end I'm realizing I just don't have the time to keep track of all the details of all those exchanges. So I've decided to start [...]

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Free Resource For Owners

October 13, 2009

One of the biggest questions I get from other owners, especially newer owners, is "what do you think about xyz, do you allow it in rotation?". Simply put, many people don't know how to check a site for bad content. It can get really geeky so I love it, but if you aren't a geek [...]

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Calling All Exchange Owners

October 9, 2009

I'm not sure how often I do this, but I think I've done it a few times before. Basically this post is for all you traffic exchange owners out there to post your name, exchange, and a brief bio about yourself. But if you own more than one exchange - you can only post one! [...]

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Don't Abuse My Exchange

October 5, 2009

There are tons of people that abuse traffic exchanges daily. Trying to find ways to automate clicks, trying to find ways to inject users with viruses, trying to steal accounts. But the one thing that really gets me upset is when other owners abuse my exchange. When you've got an exchange with a chat in [...]

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Watch Out For Phishers

October 4, 2009

There is a new trend in traffic exchanges that is scary! People are creating fake prize pages that look like the exchange's prize page, and ask for a username and password to steal it. It's happening on multiple exchanges and is effecting every exchange. It is crucial that you have a unique password on every [...]

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Your Site Got Hacked!

October 3, 2009

Running a traffic exchange we get tons of reported sites daily. It's crazy really, but it happens. And so we delete the site or ban it, and then the support tickets come in. Members who are outraged that we'd ban their site, there's nothing wrong with it!! Well - consider this..  Your site got hacked! [...]

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Responding to Rodney Lewis

October 2, 2009

In Issue 274 of Hit Exchange News, Rodney Lewis has a lengthy (in a good way) article titled "Consistency Counts". Go read it, and then come back for my response! First I want to say - great article, and thanks for taking the time to write it! You've gotten the attention of many owners, whether [...]

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Free Squeeze Pages

September 30, 2009

You hear everyone talking about using Squeeze Pages in traffic exchanges to get results.. Well here is your chance to get professionally designed squeeze pages completely free. On top of that, you'll get a free report. Really a win win here. Get the Squeeze Pages Here You'll also get info when Jeff Dedrick launches Send [...]

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A Custom Copied Exchange

September 28, 2009

OK so someone posted on my Facebook profile, what do you think of HitSilo? Well I just checked it out today, and here's what I've got to say.. Essentially it's a custom copied exchange. I know, what!? Well it's clear that the code was taken from previous Logiscape exchanges, there were a few snafus that [...]

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I'm seeing a shift in surfing patterns..

September 10, 2009

I had a support ticket from a member "It's no longer always 200+ surfing anymore!" It was almost in a panic like StartXchange was doomed. It did make me think about it though. The reason it made me think was that the number of pages viewed daily wasn't going down, and the number of members [...]

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So if you can't start a TE, what do you do?

September 3, 2009

Many people seem to think the only way you can make money from traffic exchanges is by owning a traffic exchange. But that isn't the case. If you've read my last few posts, you should know now that starting an exchange takes alot of time but even more money. If you don't got that, you're [...]

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Starting your own Traffic Exchange

September 2, 2009

So you're thinking about starting your own traffic exchange, and you are wondering where to start right? Well here are some things you'll need to think about. If it sounds difficult and scary, that's good. Because it's not easy like some script companies will make it sound. They want you to think all it takes [...]

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Running StartXchange Isn't Easy

September 1, 2009

With all the talk about free scripts, and a question on the suggestions tab asking me if I run it all myself, I thought it might be good to let you know how it all works, and some of the costs involved. Member support is run by two support people, Richard and Cat. They are [...]

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Heatmap Testing Juice Plus

August 31, 2009

If you're not a fan of my facebook page, you missed out on a great opportunity. I was asking for fans to send me a link to their splash pages, and I picked one to test out. The splash page I chose was Debbie Nelsen's for Juice Plus. It was made using the TEtoolbox editor. [...]

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Free Traffic Exchange Script

August 28, 2009

There is all this talk about free traffic exchange scripts. So I wanted to ask you, if I offered a free traffic exchange script on my blog what would you do with it? I post a link to a zip file containing the scripts, what do you do? I'm being serious on this too. Everyone [...]

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How Many Is Too Many?

August 25, 2009

I just heard about another exchange being launched by a company that already has 4 traffic exchanges. I'm not really sure why some people launch so many exchanges, rather than building up one effective exchange. It's tempting, I know, because of the launches. Almost addicting I would say. You hear about new exchanges hitting huge [...]

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What Happened To The Traffic?

August 24, 2009

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