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Traffic Exchanges

The Biggest Mistake I Ever Made

November 18, 2008

We all make mistakes from time to time, in fact I've posted on making mistakes in the past. But I don't think I've ever mentioned the biggest mistake I've made. That is, deleting old member accounts. I know, this sounds like such a nonsense mistake right? It's old, they won't come back, right? wrong. Jon [...]

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How to Advertise Blogs on Traffic Exchanges

November 15, 2008

So you've got a blog, and you want people to subscribe to it. You stick it in a traffic exchange, you get a bunch of comments, but no subscribers. What went wrong!? What ends up happening (and this is how I tried it before my current method, shame shame..) is your readers are temporary. They'll [...]

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Is it Important to cloak Affiliate URLs?

November 14, 2008

This is a question that has been on the ask list for quite some time. I've been debating on how to answer it, because it's not a simple answer. I've looked at the different types of cloaking scripts and they all don't work the same. So the question is, what are the reasons for cloaking, [...]

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How Do I Start A Traffic Exchange?

November 13, 2008

Going through my inbox I found numerous people asking my advice on starting a traffic exchange. I also get asked about the cost of starting a traffic exchange, and more about manual traffic exchange scripts and how to customize them etc. The truth to the matter is, it will take money. I did a post [...]

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What is a Manual Traffic Exchange?

November 12, 2008

There are different types of traffic exchanges online. They all have the same goal in mind, to bring traffic to your website. There are many types, like link exchanges where you exchange links on websites, banner exchanges (swapping banners), and these things called manual traffic exchanges. If you've never heard of a manual traffic exchange [...]

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How to Improve Traffic Exchanges

November 10, 2008

New exchange owners come to me all the time and ask how they can improve their traffic exchange. Well rather than say what a new exchange can do, I'm going to say what all traffic exchanges can do. One of the best ways to improve traffic exchanges is to get member feedback. This can come [...]

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How I Get 20 Subscribers Per Day

November 7, 2008

This was an interesting question, asking how I get 2 or 3 signups per day. Well I'm going to tell you how I get about 20 subscribers per day to this blog. Now some of it you'll be able to do, and some you might not, but still it'll give you some insight on how [...]

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How To Make It As a Traffic Exchange Owner

October 25, 2008

One hundred and twenty three manual traffic exchanges are on traffic exchange list, an additional sixty seven are in the suggestion box. There are countless more that have been removed from the list due to extinction, and even more that just haven't been suggested yet. As a traffic exchange owner it can be a daunting [...]

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Chatting While Surfing

October 18, 2008

One of the top features requested on the survey from StartXchange was a chat on the surfbar. It was one of those things that I've thought of doing, but just wasn't motivated to do it yet. But when so many members request it, I thought it was time! The initial reaction has been mixed. Some [...]

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Go Bunnies Go!

October 16, 2008

I've been mentioning tracking alot lately, but I haven't been mentioning my results personally because I was working on a new tracking system for TEtoolbox (not available to the public yet). Technically speaking it works differently, but from a user's perspective it's pretty much the same. But since I'm using my account as the test [...]

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Starting with Ourselves

October 15, 2008

As I embark on the topic of improving the traffic exchange industry I thought it would be wise to start with myself. So I sent out a survey to my members, and have been taking notes! Some are new ideas, and some are reminders of ideas that just haven't been implemented in. I've also taken [...]

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Improving the TE Industry

October 13, 2008

Traffic exchanges have a bad reputation online, and I think it's time we clean it up. But the only way that will happen is by fixing the things that are broken. It's time something is done about it, and I want to know..  are you with me? As I write this, there are 4,347 readers [...]

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Catching Cheaters With Bonus Pages

October 10, 2008

First off, I will say I was surfing Lords-Of-Traffic to find the famous bonus page that catches cheaters. I got to the page, took a screenshot, and somehow closed all the windows and lost it. So pretend there is a screenshot of it here today, as I'm no power surfer and just couldn't bare to [...]

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How to get on Traffic Exchange List

October 8, 2008

Well this comes up periodically, and I wanted to give you a few ways to get on my radar to get on Traffic Exchange List. It's no secret that I don't have every exchange listed. I've only got so much time, so I only add so many exchanges every so often. There isn't a golden [...]

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Traffic Exchange Active Surfers Count

October 7, 2008

Yesterday I talked about Traffic Exchange Membership Numbers, and today I'm going to talk about Active Surfers! It may come as a shock to many, that not all active surfer counts are equal! For instance, StartXchange uses 10 minutes, EasyHits4U uses 30 minutes, and most TCNTE exchanges list the past 5 minutes in the admin [...]

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Traffic Exchange Membership Numbers

October 6, 2008

This has been a topic brought up numerous times, regarding numerous exchanges. Sometimes people wonder why I Love Hits is so big, and StartXchange is so small, or any other exchange for that matter. The reason is simple - some exchanges purge membership data and only count the number of member accounts that are currently [...]

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Even Annoying Sounds Get Clicks!

September 24, 2008

Well in my last page about Auto Playing vs Manual Playing Videos I proved that video that doesn't auto play is really pointless, and that video that does auto play works great! At the end I mentioned that the video was not annoying so I wasn't sure if that was part of it. Of course [...]

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Are you a Surfer, or are you a Marketer?

September 22, 2008

My most recent heatmap testing revealed that having a video on a splash page that doesn't auto play is kinda pointless. You'd do better off not having the video using up bandwidth, and using that space for something else! (or, actually, making it play, which does work! =P) Today I want to bring up the [...]

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Auto Playing vs Manual Playing Videos

September 21, 2008

Above are two heatmap tests, where you see colored dots is where people clicked. The brighter the dot, the more clicks there were. Both aren't showing the video that was playing, because the test software doesn't render it for the screenshot. The left image is the one with the video set to manually play. That [...]

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Splash Page Heatmap Testing

September 20, 2008

I haven't heard of anyone doing Heatmap testing out there before, so I thought it would be fun to test some splash pages and see what happens. My first is the SuperSurfer splash page that has a bit of auto playing sound. What's interesting to note about this, is that people aren't clicking the stop [...]

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