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Just in case you are new to traffic exchanges, and found yourself lost in my last articles about specific use
of them, I want to talk to you about some basics that are important for you to know.

Lets discuss the basic premise of a traffic exchange and how this system works.
This is a basic explanation on what you can do in a traffic-exchange and may be skipped by people
who have been advertising using traffic exchanges for a while. However, I may put a few nuggets
of information in here that you may find useful even if you are more advanced.

What is a Traffic-Exchange?
In its simplest form a traffic-exchange is a way of driving traffic to your website in exchange for
giving traffic to another user’s website.
Traffic exchanges are membership sites, you join the site and opt-in to the sites list, so that the owner
can send you news and updates on the program. In return you can find out more information about what is
going on with the site and may even find a few good deals, offering credits, surfing contests or co-ops and more.

Websites are viewed inside what is known as a “surfbar”.
There are also other common ways that your site can get traffic from TE besides using the surfbar,
they are text links, banner ads, and sometimes email ads.
The surfbar typically is a frame around the websites that members want to advertise that are placed
in rotation. This frame generally has a timer, an area for statistics such as credits earned, websites viewed,
and links to content within the traffic exchanges, such as the main members area, Team surf, Inbox,
and purchase more credits section.

There are two types of surfbars – auto-surfing and manual-surfing.
Auto-surfing surfbars are just what they sound like, the surfbar advances automatically at the end of each timer.
I HIGHLY recommend that you do NOT use auto-surfing traffic exchanges.
The main reason is that with an auto-surfing exchange you can collect credits to your website
but there is no guarantee whatsoever that ANYONE will even see your website that you are advertising
let alone take action on it.

Your goal isn’t just to get traffic to you website, but visitors to it also.
A visitor is a living, breathing human being that can actually see your website, not some program that trades
information with another computer and says that traffic occurred to your website.
Manual surfbars, on the other hand, require that a human take action to advance the program to the next
available website to be seen after the timer has elapsed.

A typical “surf session” may go like this:

• The member logs into their account to begin surfing.
• They may check the sites they currently have in rotation to see if any hits are available that need
  to be assigned to their sites.
• The member launches the surfbar from the surfing link on the TE’s menu.
• The timer for the first site begins counting down from a pre-determined amount of time as the website
  is viewed.
• The timer reaches the end and then a selection of icons or one image needs to be clicked or hovered
  upon to receive credit and advance to the next website.
• A number of credits (or fraction of them) are given and the surfbar selects another website available
  in rotation.

When the member is done surfing they can assign any credits they have available to their websites in the members area.

About tabbed browsing
A powerful way to get more traffic that has recently come about in the past few years with tabbed browsers
is surfing multiple exchanges at one time.  Tabbed browsing allows you to surf several exchanges at one time
in multiple tabs on the same browser making this a very viable option to generate a lot of hits.
While this is a great option I would advise against surfing more than about 4 or 5 exchanges at once
for the following reasons:

1. Surfing more than this with a 10 second timer the surfbar will probably be waiting on you to come back
   to the exchange since the timer has already timed out.
2. Surfing multiple sites like this can slow your computer and processors down depending upon how graphic
   intensive the sites are and your connection speed.
3. Remember, traffic exchanges work on a view for view basis. It is a cooperative advertising medium.
   If you aren’t viewing other people’s sites what makes you think they should pay you the courtesy of viewing yours.

This is just a brief introduction about what traffic exchanges are.

Want my opinion on the best traffic exchanges?
You can find them here at these links:

TE Co-Ops + Best TE for Free Surfers

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Do you Click or Hover for traffic?

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Well folks you’ve read so far, and now it is time to teach you something new.
You already know about Website Rotators and -now-the-banner-cheats">Banner Rotators, that are good for use in Traffic Exchanges,
in order to save link-room.
You already know about the different surfing techniques, Hover or Click, Team surf, games and contests
And now we’re about to go to the next level – Traffic Exchange Co-Ops

What is a Traffic Exchange Co-Op?
Some TE owners own more than one TE, so as a marketing move they connect their websites,
giving extra surfing points when surfing them all, Allowing allocation of bonuses and credits from one
to the other, and having conjoined contests.

That ofcourse is meant to bring more traffic and members to all of their websites, instead of struggling
for members on each TE alone.

Im not sure which one started this trend, but there are two major TE owners who play with their co-ops:

1. Kjell Skogsoy – The owner of Lords Of Traffic and DeepSpace Traffic
   (Also Lords Of The List, but that’s not a TE)
   On his Traffic Exchanges you can find joined prizes just for surfing a minimum amount of pages on both
   Example: “Surf over 200 pages on each of the TE’s and receive a 300-500 bonus credits!”
   “…And enter the Cash raffle”
   I am a fan of Lords Of Traffic , as it has the most games and bonuses than any other TE
   I’ve seen, however I like DeepSpace less, since it’s only clicking TE and does not provide Hovering option.
   (Kjell claims that click-surfing is faster actually, but opinions are crossed on that one)
2. Kenneth Kraakstad – Owner of Hover-Traffic TE, Generalen TE, and TrafficGiantic .
   Kenneth’s Traffic Exchange Co-Ops offer new and innovative options – On top of the weekly bonuses,
   and random “Surf them all” contests on those TE’s you can actually transfer bonus points from one to the other.
   This is a great tool to win free account upgrades!
   Hover Traffic tself is actually the Traffic Exchange that offers the most for Free
   Members in terms of Credit ratio, Cash etc.

So there you have it, they lowdown on Co-Op Traffic Exchanges. Great use for Free Upgrades,
bonuses and prizes.

Which ever one of those you choose to join, I’m sure you will be perfectly happy with it.
Both admins are doing their best to improve their sites and bonuses all the time, and keeping their members happy.

Happy surfing!

As a follow-up to my last post about Traffic Exchanges I have decided to bring to you a bit of selection.
Traffic exchanges are a free, fun, informative way for you to publish your website, and get it more exposure.

The main idea is simple – You spend a selected in advance amount of seconds watching a website
(7-10-15 seconds usually), and then you have to click a number/color/shape that’s revealed to you.
For every website you watch you get credits. You can assign those towards showing your own website. Traffic Booster.
Most traffic exchanges also provide games, teams and fun contests for extra credits and cash.

Traffic Exchange programs will offer you pretty much the same things:

• Free Rotator
• Dynamic surf ratio, depends on your Membership Level, and special “Lords Of Traffic Rush" href="http://lords-of-traffic.com/allsplash.php?rid=10847" target="_blank">Weekend Rushes“
• Downline Builder
• Compete and earn points while surfing and promoting
• Games and Prizes Pages to make surfing more enjoyable

From then on the sites will vary in bits like offering blogs or special ratios for “PowerSurfers“

But I wanted to talk about HOW we surf.
Not many sites yet offer this, but now you can not only click-to-surf, now you can Hover.
Hovering means you dont have to click the number/color/shape – You can just hover your mouse above it.
Much Much better in my opinion!

Here are my chosen Traffic exchanges – The ones that offer Hover as well as click

1. Lords Of Traffic " href="http://lords-of-traffic.com/allsplash.php?rid=10847" target="_blank"> Lords Of Traffic – This is by far the best, largest most efficient Traffic Booster of that kind. 10 sec Timer.
   LOT has the largest number of surfers, which means it has the biggest crowd for you. They offer several
   kinds of team contests, as well as personal contests – All with cash and credit prizes.
   Thats my favorite TE. You can find me there with TheRoyalKnightsOfMutiny Team
2. Battlefield Hits – A younger exchange, on the rise. This would be a good time to enter, and may be one
   of the first ones to promote Battlefield Hits on other Traffic Exchanges, thus building a Power Downline.
   It has no teams (Yet maybe) but it offers many games for extra credits, and weekly prizes also. 10 sec Timer.
3. Viral Hits – This is another lovely exchange. Viral Hits offers a very friendly interface, with surf-chat, but
   like Battlefield Hits – No teams. It offers plenty of personal bonus games and contests as well as high quality
   traffic. Still growing so might also be a good place to snatch a high position.

Alright, those are my Must-Be-Quiet-Time Traffic Exchanges.
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If you’re looking for a Free or cheap way to get massive amounts of traffic to your website, TE’s can be the answer.
The more hits your website gets – The more chances YOU have to make a sale.
And think – it could cost you Nothing…

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Traffic Era is at the top of traffic exchanges.
It is part of the Logiscape network that “threatens” to be a complete marketing resource,
and succeeds quite well.

Features:
In a Traffic Exchange you basically surf pages, and in return you get to post for advertising your own
websites and links for other surfers to watch. Traffic Era Key Feature no. 1 is the splash page creator
You can create splash pages and add them to the splash page network, promote other members’ splash
pages to earn credits, or become a splash page publisher.

Traffic Era Plan:
You can join Traffic Era as a free member, and can surf to earn time credits.
One time credit = one second of your site being shown.
(Sites are shown for 10 – 15 seconds, after which you can click to move on to another site)
You don’t earn many time credits as a free member, though there are many bonuses hidden in the traffic,
like 50 or 25 Credits instead of one, but you can save them up to convert to Logibucks, and use
them to pay for an upgrade.
You can also upgrade via PayPal – which is what we did few days after discovering this traffic exchange.

You will also earn clocks while surfing.
Once you have enough clocks, your account will be credited with some tokens,
and once you have enough tokens you can go to the marketplace and spend them.
The Clocks are used also for ranking of the team contests.

Tokens can buy you an increased surf ratio, extra bonus credits, or simply time credit packages.
You can also earn extra tokens by ranking in the top 500 based on PV for the week.
(PV is earned by surfing, showing your referral page and having active referrals.)
You also have the option to become a VIP member – whether you upgrade or not, which gives
bonuses such as free credits on login, extra items in the marketplace, and the option to click a website
after 7 seconds insrtead of 15 – Collecting more bonuses and clocks.

Another awesome unique feature in Traffic Era are the teams.
You’ll start to get team invites as soon as you start surfing, but be choosy about which team you join.
More active, higher ranked teams are the best because they’ll get you the most extra time credits
each week, with a bigger chance of winning the clock races.
Dont forget – You will need to be prepared to do your part for the team PV.

Keep in touch with your team mates through team chat, join discussion groups, and use the message system
to network with other members.
If you want to get even more involved, try starting your own team or group.

Traffic Era Conclusion:
Traffic Era is by far the leader of Traffic Exchange programs.
It is consistent, stable, easy to use, and very enjoyable to use also. If our choice of advertising or income
making would be Traffic Exchanges – This is the one we would go to (… Well.. We HAVE..)

*We do realize there we no other Traffic Exchanges Programs Reviews published yet, however they
are ready and will be published soon. This is just a case of bringing you the best first.
The rest will follow and you will get more information about several more major Traffic Exchanges.

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