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Traffic Exchanges

Password Security

May 19, 2009

I know this isn't a hot topic, security that is. People don't like to spend time making sure things are secure. But that is why Paypal accounts get broken into, servers get hacked, and laptops get stolen. So take a deep breath, count to 10, and continue reading. You need to be using a strong [...]

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Keeping the Industry Positive

May 16, 2009

I made some posts about this in the past, making it a goal to point out the positive rather than the negative in other exchanges. I did the whole spotting bad traffic exchanges posts and focused on the negative, but realized maybe the best way is to raise the bar by pointing out who's doing [...]

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The Best Traffic Exchange

May 14, 2009

This question was too easy to answer, but I encourage you to put your opinion in the comments as well. Asking for "the best" anything will depend on many variables. Most will give you their opinion, some will tell you based on their tracking, but both are flawed. Chances are you aren't promoting the exact [...]

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Adding Banners to Traffic Exchanges

May 13, 2009

Most TE's want banners with no html, how do I do that? What they need is the URL to your banner, and the URL to your link. If you have HTML from an affiliate toolbox chances are you've got these two items in there. Note that flash and javascript banners won't work this way, but [...]

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Thinking Inside The Box

May 8, 2009

If your splash page is trying to go outside the box, but it has a square box around the ad itself, is it inside the box or outside? I'm not sure. In any event, I had a splash page created for me and I wanted to know what you thought about it. You may or [...]

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Maybe Less is More?

April 27, 2009

Sometimes I wonder if Less is More with traffic exchanges. Keeping track of them is crazy. Check out my gmail account that only gets traffic exchange emails. This address is only given in the members area of an exchange, nowhere else. I've got 660 emails in my inbox, and 30 exchanges filtered (they get lables [...]

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Does this interest you?

April 22, 2009

New exchanges pop up all the time, and many times I'm asked to add them to Traffic Exchange List before they launch (ie: on launch day have them in place). I was just wondering what you think about this. Would it be a good idea, or would it be better to wait till they've been [...]

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My Top 10 Traffic Exchanges

April 11, 2009

Well with my new video splash pages targetting specific exchanges, I've been getting great results. Here are my current top 10 exchanges: EasyHits4u ListSurfing StartXchange Traffic-Splash FastEasyTraffic Blue-Surf TrafficBunnies Hit2Hit FarmTraffic ILoveHits Note the two new exchanges in there..  FarmTraffic and ListSurfing..  Pretty cool seeing them in the top 10. Of course this my top [...]

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Who's not paying commissions?

April 9, 2009

This was a topic last night in the SWAT Traffic conference. If you aren't going to these conferences you need to be, especially if you are trying to network with other owners. Conference room is for Captain upgraded members only (well worth the $19.97/month). Anyways - we were talking about exchanges who aren't paying commissions [...]

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The Power of Targetted Splash Pages

April 7, 2009

The biggest reason people stop using any exchange is lack of results. I know, because I ask when members delete their accounts at StartXchange what their reason is. The most obvious reason they aren't getting results is failure to create targetted splash pages. Just dropping in an affiliate link everyone else is using is not [...]

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50,184 Members Ain't Too Bad

April 3, 2009

This one blew me by surprise! I knew I was coming up on it, but it wasn't till answering a support ticket yesterday that I noticed StartXchange passed the 50,000 member mark! I told Paul Kinder and we decided to do a joint promo to celebrate.. Surf 100 pages at StartXchange, Traffic-Splash, and Fast Easy [...]

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Traffic Exchange Market Share

March 8, 2009

In the Affiliate Funnel conference room yesturday afternoon, Jon Olson announced the top 10 exchanges brought in over 7,000 new members that week combined. I don't remember the exact number, but that's a big number. However, one must wonder how many of those 7,000 joined more than one of the top 10 that week, right? [...]

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Survey Results

March 3, 2009

This survey was created to find the current trends of surfers. At one point it was popular to be a member of every exchange and surf every exchange, but as more were created this wasn't possible. So the trends changed. I thought it was time to find what the current trends were! Here you can [...]

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Advertising Outside Traffic Exchanges

February 26, 2009

Does it even exist? =P LOL of course! I've been thinking of different ways to advertise StartXchange to non traffic exchange members. Search and Safelists come to mind, what do you think? It's the age old question, but when you provide traffic the pressure is on to bring in more and more new people every [...]

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The Results You've Been Waiting For

February 17, 2009

Well I waited longer than I said I wait to publish the results of my multi-variate testing. And the results are going to SHOCK AND AWE you. The results were.. Not much.. The only thing that had some decent improvements was not having my photo on the page. Go figure. The thing to note is [...]

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You'll be Suspended If..

February 12, 2009

I regularly suspend accounts every day for doing this, and it's for doing something that many people believe is OK, and that nobody knows they are doing it. Unfortunately for them, it means they are permanently banned at StartXchange, and I do know they are doing it! What is it I'm talking about? Making spam [...]

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Just my luck

February 10, 2009

Well this is interesting. Of course I'm affected by it. Essentially this could have drastic results on the squeeze page, and it could be the reason results were so dismal. I'm not sure, but it'll be interesting to see if this week's results are way higher. It would make sense, if the incorrect code messed [...]

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Let's Change This Splash Page

February 7, 2009

Ok so obviously that splash page wasn't working. Is it time/branding, or is it the copy? I created 8 variations of the splash page using some advanced scripting and tracking, and I'm going to see the results. At the same time I'll still be testing which exchanges are bringing home the bacon. On Monday I'll [...]

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My Results This Week

February 6, 2009

I took the Top 10 Exchanges, assigned as much traffic as I could, and tracked the number of new subscribers to this splash page. I'm not including the number of pages viewed because my goal is to get the most subscribers possible, not the best return for the hits. What I did is tried to [...]

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Top 100 Manual Traffic Exchanges

February 5, 2009

Traffic Exchange List is sporting some awesome new graphics. A new logo, new ranking icons, and even screenshots are back. So look out for exchanges with the icon on them, those are the ones to watch! There are special graphics for exchanges #1-10, Top 25, Top 50, and Top 100. Now for some fun..  Below [...]

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