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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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My List Frog is truly a revolutionary new state- of-the-art list building system designed to drive thousands
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to build your list 10 levels deep, while being able to leap over thousands of prospects ahead of you,
giving you the opportunity to mail them all, and reach fresh new prospects all the time!

My List Frog also has an incredible new Viral Text Ad System that allows you to have your ads displayed across THOUSANDS of sites in a matter of minutes with the help of members that use the Viral Text Ad Link Cloaker
system to advertise their own offers all over the internet!
When they send traffic to their VTACL, an ad frame at the bottom of the screen pops up with random text/banner
ads that are displayed everywhere in seconds.

Members also get Viral Text Ad Credits for sending traffic to their sites resulting in residual free
advertising for their existing text/banner ads in the system.
This truly is a remarkable new site, and just want the internet needs to have in this ever growing industry!

As soon as you sign up, you are instantly credited an automatic $5 commission bonus too!
Plus on sign up, you also receive 1 solo ad, 1000 mailing credits, and 2000 viral ad credits
Thats Way awesome, and too good to pass by if you ask me.

Also they have created this incredible new system called Full Page Ads that allows us to advertise our
entire website to all members of My List Frog as soon as they login, and they have the option of earning credits!

One of my good friends also wrote about this today and beat me to the punch lol but I still wanted to let you
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Ok, so you’ve got some blank">product, products, or a website that you are promoting, and maybe
you have followed my advices on Traffic Exchanges and their ability to Boost the exposure of
your products, so you signed up on a few.

You have probably noticed then, that the number of websites you can promote for yourself
on a Traffic Exchange is limited, especially if you’re on a free base account…

So Now Im going to tell you about a little trick, a cheat even, that will help you get exposure
and traffic to more websites than the limit you are given in your traffic exchange.

Yes, basically you could be a Free member of any TE with many more websites than you should.
Most TE’s limit the number of websites you can promote to 5-10.
I’ll tell you how to make each one of those five show as many websites as you want. Each one.

It’s actually not that hard to do, if you know the right places for it – A little something called “Rotator”

A website rotator is one link code that switches between different website YOU define for them.
Some of the traffic exchanges today will offer you a free rotator which displays all the websites you listed
in your “my sites” section in your TE.
The problem with those rotators is that many of the Traffic Exchanges use them to promote themselves as
well so you will have a line above every website it displays, saying where that rotator came from, and sometimes
your personal info as well. Click here for an example Rotator (each time you click you will get to a different site).

In my opinion this is not that good, since I don’t always want people to know this is a rotated website.
Also I feel it’s a little more aesthetic without that top line.
The website I use for that matter is PageSwirl.
It is not a Traffic Exchange site, it only offers rotators.

As a free member you can have up to 5 websites in your rotator (which is the total of websites you can
display as a free member of a Traffic Exchange – Pushed into one link), but as an upgraded member
you can have Unlimited rotators, with unlimited websites in them, which you can even prioritize.
At PageSwirl you can also choose to have a personalized rotator, with your name on in on the top line, but
the default rotator is clean and only shows your websites. Click here to see (each click – different website).

At Traffic For Webmasters Traffic Exchange you also get a rotator without a top line.
Very unique for a TE. This TE Donates ALOT To dog shelters – I support it greatly.
On top of that – As a Free member you can have 10 websites, and not only 5..

That is step 1 of getting more links into your Traffic Exchange then you’re limited to by your free account.

The next trick would be, for example, taking your Traffic For Webmasters rotator and inserting it’s link in
your PageSwirl rotator.

What happened now?
You have more than doubled the amount of websites in your PageSwirl rotator – Now with One link from
PageSwirl you can rotate 10 Websites from TrafficForWebmasters , and 4 more websites from the 5 PageSwirl
gives you.. That comes to 14 WEBSITES IN ONE FREE LINK..

This ofcourse can go on and on, rotator within rotator for as much as you like (and the TE’s allow) but remember
to keep up with your websites in rotation.
The one thing thats definitely sure in that your websites will get ALOT more traffic..

here are some Traffic Exchanges that Offer Rotators (with self-promoting top line):
Blue-Surf
Aim-High
Lords Of Traffic (Huge TE)
Click here for review by JordaC at Personal Business Growth Blog)

I hope this helps you for now!

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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Did you know?
Every page of your website can put money in your pocket. Even your 404 error page.
You can customize that page just like any other page on your website.

Some ideas to use on that page:

• Making an special offer at a discounted price.
• Having it be a squeeze page.
• Making it an Adsense page.
• Redirecting it to a related affiliate product.

Those are just a few of the many different profitable ways you can “milk” your 404 error page.
It won’t make you rich, but it definitely will put some extra money in your account.

Leaving your 404 page naked , when you could have customized it, is pretty much like
leaving money on the table. Having something for your visitors to see that end up on that page
is extremely more beneficial to you then not having anything on that page.

Think of yourself for a second – Have you ever visited a website, but typed in the wrong page address?
Or maybe followed a link someone gave you, that had nothing waiting on the other side of it?
What did you see?
Chances are you saw a generic page that said something like, “The page cannot be displayed“,
or “Not Found“, or “The requested URL was not found on this server“.

In many other instances, people end up on this page because they are snooping around
trying to look for your download page or thank you page without having to pay or opt-in.
Kind of shady, but people do it.

Well, whats to stop us of making use of that page… If people get to it anyway?
Purposely or by accident, it only matters that they are ending up there .
If you have your own website and it gets traffic, some of your visitors will get to that page.
Now, if they are seeing the generic message that their browser shows them when it happens, then
you are not making good use of your web real estate.

Make good use of every page on your website!