Traffic Exchanges

What are you doing?

February 6, 2010

I talk alot about me, but what about you? What are you guys up to? There is such a variety of people surfing the exchanges it's crazy. So feel free to post a comment with some info about what you are up to. It would also be interesting to hear how you found out about [...]

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Why make it smaller?

February 5, 2010

So I periodically surf other exchanges to keep my accounts active, and something I've noticed on some exchanges really baffles me. They actually take my full screened browser window, and resize it smaller. I don't understand the logic in this. The whole reason is to view the site right? So why not let me view [...]

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Thoughts For The Day

February 2, 2010

I have a few different thoughts so I didn't really know what kind of title to put. But here we go: Does load time matter with results? I'm thinking about doing a test on 2 identical pages, but having one load slower than the other. I think it matters, but I'm not aware of anyone [...]

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Movers, Shakers, and Newers?

February 1, 2010

Have you seen the new Traffic Exchange List Reports lately? It's pretty cool, and it's completely free. You can even view the reports without signing up. But there are benefits for members that you won't get if you don't join. Something that's New is New Listing Notifications. When a new exchange is submitted to the [...]

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Changes to Traffic Exchange List

January 26, 2010

There are some pretty cool changes being made to Traffic Exchange List that I wanted to talk about yesterday, but didn't get a chance to. Sometimes this daily blogging thing is alot harder than you'd think ;-) Surfers replaces Unique The reports have been changed and no longer include "Unique" traffic, but rather include "Surfers". [...]

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Money, Credits, and Loyalty

January 14, 2010

So what is it that you want out of a traffic exchange? Is it money? Traffic? Loyalty? It seems to change periodically and it's interesting to watch. The past year we saw a lot of money money money. It became the focus of many exchanges. Really crazy if you ask me, because I thought the [...]

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What's Hot, What's Not

January 12, 2010

Something I added to the Traffic Exchange List Reports was a "Change" field. Basically you can see how big a change an exchange has made in rankings over the previous week. The top exchanges tend to not move around too much, but when you get into the smaller exchanges you can see some big changes: [...]

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There are two reasons you are here..

January 8, 2010

I really don't get this in splash pages, when people have an audio explaining why they think you are at that page. WRONG. I'm at that page because someone put it into rotation and I happened to get to view it. You are only wasting your time making up reasons why people are at your [...]

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2009 Year In Review

January 6, 2010

A year has gone by, and a new one has begun. So what did we learn from last year? Well I want to know what YOU thought, before I go on to what I thought. In fact, now that I think of it I'll write the post tomorrow and include your thoughts as well. Sound [...]

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5,000 Comments.. But who's counting?

December 29, 2009

WOW. I just logged in today and noticed a big 5,000! That's the number of approved comments (I purge the spammers). That is pretty sweet, so thank you thank you thank you! I actually came here to bribe you today, you see 2010 starts in a few days and it's time to change the calendars. [...]

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Join the Dark Side

December 22, 2009

I've got some great news today, because well we finally figured out what we were doing wrong with certain site scanner installs. You see I'm a custom exchange guy, and William Brant is a TCNTE guy, and so when we played with certain other scripts (primarily the "Walker / Ventrino" traffic exchange scripts) we weren't [...]

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Amazing Branding With Every Click!

December 21, 2009

This has got to be the funniest thing in the world.. ILoveHits now has an option for you to have your images as the surfbar icons. And well, I couldn't resist: Yes, that's right, every click on ILoveHits for an entire week will be on my face. I plan on taking this a step further [...]

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Have I reached every member?

December 9, 2009

This month so far I've received almost 70,000 hits from about 90 different traffic exchanges. I tried to make sure there was at least 1,000 hits in each of the exchanges throughout the past week. It sure has made me wonder about all those claims for getting 10,000 hits a day out of traffic exchanges..  [...]

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While I'm Under The Weather..

November 23, 2009

I had anticipated making more videos and having something super awesome for you guys every day, but I've actually been a bit sick. Just a normal cold but unlike normal it's been sticking around for a while. It makes it hard to do videos when your coughing so much. So I figured right now would [...]

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List Building with Traffic Exchanges

November 21, 2009

I've been hanging out in Traffic Exchange Live, weekdays from 3PM-5PM EST. It's where all the cool people hang out during the day =P It started when Jon Olson and I were planning on doing a live event during the TEtoolbox launch, and then we realized how fun it was and wanted to do it [...]

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Did you ever want to have a tracker on your domain?

November 9, 2009

With email deliverability, the links you use in your emails can have a big difference in whether your email ends up in spam, or in the inbox. Even when you use a service like Aweber those links make a difference. Well what if you could have all your tracking links on your own domain? Then [...]

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How do you track branding?

November 7, 2009

One of my biggest pet peeves over the years of telling people about branding on traffic exchanges was then telling them how to track their results. The problem is, tracking which exchange provides a signup doesn't show you the full picture. If we know it takes 7 views of an ad to get a signup, [...]

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Safe Site Scanner Released

November 6, 2009

Well I've been keeping this a secret for as long as possible, but it's out now so here it goes! I've released my famous site scanner I use on StartXchange to other owners. So far the results have been amazing! What's even better now is that using feedback from other owners it's even awesomer. You [...]

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Going Incognito with Google Chrome

November 4, 2009

This is especially useful if you are an admin to any kind of site, but I've also found uses for it outside of the admin realm. With Google Chrome there is a "Incognito Mode" that starts a private session. It doesn't remember your history, cookies, etc. What I've found it most useful for is logging [...]

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Special Thanks!

October 28, 2009

I just wanted to say a special thanks to the 49 exchanges below that have the Traffic Exchange List button on their front page proudly linking to their ranking page. Let's hope the other 200 or so exchanges do the same ;-) Below are the ones linking in order of their current rank. easyhits4u.com startxchange.com [...]

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