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Should You Join a Brand-new Traffic Exchange... NO!

noreply@blogger.com (Jose Garriga Jr) — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:37:00 +0000

That's IMHO (in my humble opinion). Well, no can mean yes in some cases. There are SO MANY effective, proven, quality traffic exchanges that there simply isn't enough time for you to spend on brand new ones which take up way much more time than they can produce results. It is difficult enough to make a sale on a solid exchange. Imagine how much time it will take on a brand-new one that grows at a snail's pace...

The key to a quality exchange is its pace of growth. The only rare case I will join a brand spankin' new traffic exchange is if I know the owners and what script it is running.

On the owners...

ClicksAGoGo was the last exchange I joined when it had less than 60 members. Why? Because the owners Stephen Ayer (of TrafficRoundup) and Bobby Ivie (of FunnyfarmTraffic) have a proven track record of ownership and I know CAGG has a strong promotional campaign behind it. Over 1000 members joined the first 30 days and that is great quality for you and me!

Unfortunately, most new exchanges are new owners with little or no experience who do not focus on growing the member base with their efforts. They *expect* members to grow it for them and learn the hard way that in order to make their program a success, they are gonna have to put their heart into it. I didn't offer a PRO feature on ViralExpress.com until it reached the 2000 active member mark.

On scripts...

Look at the worst and most amateurish *new* exchanges online and notice that there are 2 particular scripts we see over and over. On the same token, look at the BEST exchanges online and notice which scripts they are running. Basically, stay away from new exchanges running those 2 particular scripts, especially if it looks like they are right out of the box. Really, who cares about a PRO upgrade in an exchange with a few hundred members and growing by 30 members a month?

Your time is more valuable to the exchange than the exchange's value for your time... Remember, this is IMHO!

The harder a new owner focuses on bringing new members, the happier previous members are that their sites are being seen, the more comfortable they feel in recommending the new program which brings in even more members and keeps others returning to earn more credits. An upward spiral of momentum and growth. That's the "catch 22" for new owners. Not to join new exchanges, yet get others to join their new exchange!

If you were to use just the traffic exchanges found in TrafficHoopla and CyberWheelers, you will reach the vast majority of active members in the entire industry in proven programs that can expose your website to a diverse audience. There are over 2000 exchanges on the market with most having only a few hundred members and the best having over ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND members.

For me an exchange is proven at the 3000 active member mark, they give great rewards for referring others, they run the same scripts as the top exchanges online (TCNTE and/or LJ, some custom) and they don't sell or give away too many credits and devalue them. Selling too many credits in the beginning means members have no reason to return and view sites.

Realize *your* value as an exchange member and don't be afraid to raise your standards!

Is NO-CLICK Surfing the Next Trend or Just a Fad?

noreply@blogger.com (Jose Garriga Jr) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:09:00 +0000

It's not a god-awful (meaning eternally bad) *autosurf* it's something new called no-click site surfing. How it works is that for one second, you hover over an image and the next site is loaded. Unlike non-productive, time-wasting, sucker-attracting autosurf, where sites are loaded without you doing anything and nobody truly sees your pages, with no-click you do have to move the mouse. The question then becomes... How effective is no-click surfing?

In my personal experience, it is "neat". Not awesome, not thrilling, not particularly ground-breaking, simply a neat concept.

The first people to bring this idea to the market are Jennifer Herold and John Guanzon who launched NewWay2Surf.com

Another exchange owner to adopt the vision and add it to their design is Kjell Skogsoey of Lords-of-Traffic.com

There are slight differences between the two. In NW2S, the entire site is hover-navigable and/or click. On the surf bar, if you hover over or click the wrong image, you don't earn a credit and the new site is loaded. In LOT, only the surf console is hoverable. There is only one icon, but the system asks for verification after a certain number of hovers (almost wrote clicks).

One thing I can say for sure is that it is a novelty that attracts many new members out of sheer curiosity and positive feedback and total pageviews are pretty high for both programs. NewWay2Surf has already experienced 100+ new members joining in one day and it is about 2 weeks young with 1000 members as of this post.

That's new people looking at our sites folks! :-)

Join them and check 'em out for yourself and then determine...

Is it an industry trend or just a fad!?!?

Downline Building = Free Traffic & Leads

noreply@blogger.com (Jose Garriga Jr) — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:31:00 +0000

If you are only promoting lead capture pages throughout traffic exchanges, you are not spending credits wisely. The big guys state over and over, to build-your-list. What you have to think about though is, what are you, yourself more willing to do while surfing an exchange. Would you be more apt to enter your name and email on a page with no links whatsoever, or would you be more likely to explore a page and join a free traffic program first?

Chances are you would join a traffic program over entering your email to learn more about anything really. Ponder it for a moment. The few times you've entered your name and email for info, did you not know the person promoting the page or were you already familiar with the service? That's why to me, spending a credit, meaning promoting a site with no options that give the viewer a choice is not an efficient use of your credits.

That is why I recommend building traffic downlines in the top manual traffic exchanges.

Two things happen. On a good exchange, you will be sent the referral's email. That is a free lead! The other thing that happens is that the person now is going to earn you visitor credits on a residual basis, thus perpetuating your traffic.

Long-term traffic team building in high-quality manual surf exchanges is a double whammy way to expand your online presence while making that all important contact and beginning a potential future business relationship.

Autosurf ALMOST Killed Traffic Exchanges

noreply@blogger.com (Jose Garriga Jr) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:10:00 +0000

Well, it wasn't autosurf by itself actually. It was the autosurf/Ponzi scheme combo that almost brought down the entire industry. The one we all remember was 12DailyPro from Charis Johnson. This one hit the sweet spot of human beings catering to both laziness *and* greed. Autosurf and money for nothing. Basically, put money in and don't do squat except zone out while sites get flashed in front of you for 12 days and you get a return. Refer others, and get a chunk of their investment. It grew to over 300,000 members where 175,000 people made cash investments taking in an estimated $500 million. I didn't believe it either. Click here for the actual figures.

The blow to good, reputable manual traffic exchanges was that the negative press which reached prime-time news didn't distinguish between auto and manual and placed them all in one basket. PayPal did the same thing freezing the accounts of dozens of manual non-income sharing exchanges along with 100s of autosurf "investment" sites. That was just two years ago in 2006. It took countless phone calls by dedicated and caring manual exchange owners to finally convince PayPal that they were wrong in putting all traffic exchanges together in one category and they finally listened and even made policy changes.

The really sad part of this is that autosurf was only useful while they were perceived as moneymaking opportunities. Everyone deep inside knew that they were virtually useless when used for advertising purposes only.

What irks me about autosurf today, is that the exchange industry is growing at a healthy pace all around. Tens of thousands of new members flow in monthly and not knowing any better, they fall for the siren call of laziness as if manual surfing were so laborious. So they get away from what actually works to spend a few months and $$$ on what does NOT work, only to become frustrated, give up and say that traffic exchanges don't produce results.

That's the negative effect that autosurf has in today's traffic exchange market. To me, the solution to that is educating our members enough so that they NEVER waste time using autosurf sites. So, I tell you...

Stop using any exchange that adopts any auto view option, period. Tell others to stop using them too.

Do any of the top traffic exchanges on the market have anything autosurf in them?

NO, they don't!

Earning Free Traffic on 10 Exchanges at Once

noreply@blogger.com (Jose Garriga Jr) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:21:00 +0000

The advertiser's perspective is to obey Terms of Service by not adding framebreakers or adult themed sites with nudity, trojans, malware, etc.

From a member's perspective, we want to earn as many traffic credits as possible while obeying TOS and agree to not use software that does the clicking for us. We have to use our mouse to click and our eyes to see where!

Here are some tips for optimizing your traffic credit earning...

1) Maximize your time by surfing no less than 10 different exchanges at a time. You never know what corner of the Internet an exchange is being promoted on. Add this CyberWheelers page (with your own ID)to favorites for easily staying organized:

http://www.cyberwheelers.com/?section=1-10

2) Turn off volume at your speakers. When you get intrigued by a site, you'll open it to listen to a message or take a tour right? The less distraction while earning credits, the better.

3) Use Firefox browser with popup killer ON. Find a smooth pace. NOT fast, smooth and comfortable. Read this about using Firefox tabs efficiently:

http://www.cyberwheelers.com/?section=mozilla

4) On your last "round" of clicks on your cyberwheel, assign credits where necessary.

5) Run Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad-Aware at least once a week.

Following this setup, you should be able to earn over 500 visitor credits per HOUR.

As a member of an exchange, YOU are the lifeblood. When you view sites, it should be smooth and as efficient as possible, and you should be given ongoing rewards for referring other members as well. Without you, the exchange industry wouldn't even exist!

You've heard the age old riddle... "what came first, the chicken or the egg?" Well, without the egg, there would be no chicken. Without our viewing sites, there would be no exchange in traffic exchange!

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noreply@blogger.com (Jose Garriga Jr) — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:47:00 +0000

Wow, I'm so excited!

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