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Recently there has been a lot of new members trying to get sites with auto-play sounds approved, but, sorry, that will not happen if I can help it.

What I define as “Auto-Sound” is quite simple, it is any sound, from anything, that automatically starts when you visit the website. If the site has a “Click here to listen” option, that is ok, but not anything automatic!

First, you may wonder why these sites have sound, that is simple, it is kind of like when you are watching TV and then the commercials come on, louder than the show you were watching! It is to get your attention and make you look at the site!

Second, you ask why these sites with “Auto” sound are not allowed, this is because NOBODY wants to hear it! Most surfers are trying to surf, and don’t want to be bothered! Imagine, you are surfing at night, while sleeping, then some site pops up with a blaring announcement, or cha-ching cash register sound, or worse, and it wakes you, or your family up! I heard one on another site the other day while surfing and it was a very loud ‘HEY WAKE UP” along with some sort of sales pitch for a get rich quick site!

Most people that have ever had this happen know exactly what I mean! It is an unneccesary noise! For those of you that want to add one of these sites, there are many traffic exchanges out there that allow it, I WILL NOT! All that happens is that it makes others mad, not to mention me! If you have a traffic exchange that allows these sounds, post the info in a comment so these people can find you. Just know, that when I get slapped in the head with such noise, I stop surfing, even during the day, I don’t want to hear it and neither does anyone else!

I have never seen a site using this tactic that was worth listening to anyway, I am here to surf and get traffic, not to hear some sales pitch! So, turn the sound off, or make it an option for those that may be interested, or DO NOT SUBMIT IT HERE! If one slips through, usually by adding the sound to a site after it has been approved, please submit an abuse report, or make a note of which site it was, which browser you are using, and email me, or use the contact form, and I WILL SUSPEND THAT SITE! Sorry, don’t want to upset anybody, but that rule is not flexible!

Everyday, there are more and more newbies hitting the web, and what do they find? Well, to begin with, confusion, then awareness, then confidence, then frustration, and then, one either quits or keeps going, like I did!

When we all came to this place, the World Wide Web, we all had our own thoughts and ideas of where we were and what we would find, but, yes, there is that word, but, we soon find out that things are not what we thought they would be, they are worse! You know what I mean!

Anyone that comes to this understanding must make a decision, either quit, or get busy!

What do I mean? Think back to when you believed everything you read, like the “get rich quick”, “join this club”, “our community is better”, and nobody but me will ever know about those pics! Do you remember now? I hope so, if not, maybe you are now a newbie? Thats ok, reading this will save you some time, a lot of time in some cases.

The first thing that happens is that you learn what Google is, and you start searching, learning, and find that there is no one but you that has that idea! Then, you get a FREE website somewhere, which usually has more ads on it than a TV station, then, you make that decision, I am going to build my own site! Now what?

As soon as you register a new Domain, there is a searchbot that finds it, finds that new email address, your phone number, your home address, your kids names, how many pets you have, how often you and your ……. get the point? Believe me, I get over 10,000 SPAM emails a week! Sometimes it is more like a million! Yeah. it takes me like an hour to check my email! This happens like 3 times a day! Get my point?

How do you avoid this? You can’t, you will get SPAMMED, but, you can limit it! If you register a new domain, make sure that you check that little box to keep your info private, and NEVER EVER publish your email address!,  if you don’t, you will be like me! I had 3 or 4 domain names, all public, because I didn’t want to pay Yahoo that extra money, like a buck or two, whatever it was back then, and of course I re-registered a year later and so on! After like 5 years, it was too late! If you get to where I am, all you can do is get rid of the domain, or pay extra for SPAM protection, that doesn’t work right! Yeah, the really good stuff works! BUT! It works too good, it will make you miss that sale you have been waiting on! Imagine, everypossibleword@ your website.com, gets picked up by a SPAMBOT and that is all she wrote! Forever, you will get SPAM!

Anyone reading this that knows me, knows that I ramble a bit, I get off on these bunny trails and…………see my point, anyway, if you do read what I write, and suffer through to the end, you may learn something, I love to share.

To an Internet Newbie:

If you are brand new, like just started that Vista Machine, or that Mac that is supposed to do everything, right out of the box, you should read this! Either that or turn the thing off and NEVER turn it on again!

1. They LIED to you, all computers have one major problem, the operator! That and the other BS that convinced you to buy that particular machine, yes, it is a piece of JUNK, they all are, about 5 minutes after you buy it! Why, because the next model is already out, it is now the newest best thing, for about 5 minutes, get my point? Oh, Macs still need software to do anything but check your e-mail!
2. Now that you are surfing, you start seeing all of these special offers that are ONLY AVAILABLE TO YOU! You get that first SPAM, and no, she won’t really send you her pics! NO they can’t REALLY make it bigger, and no, you are not a winner of some contest you never enterred and you ARE NOT just some lucky person selected by some poor unfortunate millionaire in AFRICA! Here is the tip: If you get an email from anyone that isn’t replying to your email, or a friend that you are expacting an email from, maybe a business you deal with, mark it as SPAM! Trust me, it will save you time! Oh, and NEVER EVER open an attachment! I don’t care what kind of AntiVirus Program you have, if you open that attachement, you will get something that Ajax won’t wash off! Trust me!
3. The next hurdle is something that we all do to ourselves, we think we are special! All of us want to get rich and fall for the SCAMS, been there done that, like almost two decades ago, when it was new! “Just pay me a dollar and you will get Rich!” I think that was the one that got me, it wasn’t worded that way, but you get my point. If somebody tells you that they will give you a FREE website that will make you rich, don’t believe it, it CAN NOT HAPPEN! You will work your butt off and never ever sell anything, and don’t buy it yourself either, WALMART is cheaper, get my point?
4. Once you get beyond these things, there is another biggie, and I mean a BIGGIE! That first Domain is a pain! When you get it, you think that the whole world is going to come running to see it! You think that the whole world wants to buy what you have because they never ever saw it before, hmm, see the pattern?

Ok, anybody with more than a minute on the web has learned about this stuff, right? No, if you join this traffic exchange, you will find plenty of examples of what I am talking about, if you surf that is. There is so much of this kind of junk, many that want to just harvest your e-mail address, or con you out of a dollar or two, but maybe even worse! I do my best to watch this site, I surf, like everyone else, but I have the best Virus/Spyware/Adware/Pop-Up etc protection and if I get a warning, that site is gone, but, you will find links here to other traffic exchanges, many of which could possibly have an issue or two! No, it isn’t that they do it on purpose, it just haopens! Once a site is approved, the bad guys add some bad code to that site! Yes, it happens, and yes, that FREE site you have may be the one!

Why would anyone give you a share of their millions for FREE? Think about it, they want something from you, and definitely not just your friendship! When you get a FREE website, what have you done? All that you did was add a page or two to somebody elses website! If that domain name is not registerred to you, guess what, IT IS NOT YOURS!

Now that you have made the progression, have a real website, and know that the other stuff marked as FREE isn’t, welcome to this website!

The next step is to promote that new website, is it easy? NO, it is exacltly the same as any other business, you need visibility! If you open a shoe store on Main street, that is one thing, somebody will walk by, sometime, but you still need ads or no one will know it is there but you! Your website is no different, or is it?

Main street doesn’t have Google, unless they also have a website! Things have changed a lot over the years, and the biggest change is what is called Web 2.0 or, the New Internet, I have heard it called a lot of things! Many are not nice, but that is because they don’t know that Web 2.0 makes all of our lives better! Even Google!

What am I talking about? Well, do you know what an RSS Feed is? Look at the top of this age, in the address bar, see that little orange box with the funny pattern on it? If you see that, you don’t need to visit the site anymore, if you have a Feed Reader, or use Yahoo or Googles services, keep looking you will find it!

Now that you know about 2.0, how does it help you? Well, the first thing is speed, the speed at which the search engines find your website! Once Google has your site indexed, maybe a month or two, as soon as you publish a new page, it is crawled by their bots, I mean within seconds, maybe even faster! The old plain jane HTML sites, it may take 6 months for the same thing to happen!

Anyway, other than the automatic stuff, what can you do? First, be patient, sit back, drink a cold one, and start surfing!

If you join a surf-site, like this one, make sure that you do it for the right reasons, otherwise you may be wasting your time!

What can a surf-site, either auto or manual surf, do for you? Well, the first thing is to get people to look at it! That is why you will always find that “Get Rich Quick” crap on all traffic exchanges, but trust me, ALL OF IT is garbage! Why do you need visitors to your website? Simple, the more visitors, and the longer they stay, and the more pages they look at, the more important your website must be!

Yes, a traffic exchange puts you in front of new people, people like me, that have seen it all and know the truth, people like you and I both were, new, that fall for the crap, but other than that, what does it do for you? As I said above, more visitors means more important, more important to the only thing on the Internet that matters, the Search Engines!

If you have a new website, and I mean a “REAL” website, then you need to know that GOOGLE is like a god, (little g) make Google happy, and guess what, people will find your website when they do a search! Yahoo and the others, even MSN, all use Google like tactics, but Google is the best! What is the difference? Google has a three month cycle that updates monthly! Trust me, sounds funny, but it is true. The others, well, lets just say that they follow, and have their own criteria as to what is important, that is why you may get listed on one, but not the others, but remember, Google is the biggie!

Ok, all of that out of the way, there is one more thing, I saved it for last because it involves all of the above, the basics.

If you have ever done a search on Google, or anywhere else for that matter, you will notice the “Sponsored” listings, or ads, and yes, you can buy these! BUT, do not fall for the ads that try to sell you the TOP LISTING ON PAGE ONE, that is the worst SPAM of all, it attacks the more advanced webmasters! I get emails al the time with people asking me about this trash! Hey, if you want, you can pay me, and I WILL GUARANTEE a TOP SPOT ON GOOGLE! Or, you can do it yourself! Yeah, will take a little time to learn, but you can do it and not pay anybody but Google! Do Not fall for that one! They will charge you about 100 times what you can do it yourself for! But, if you really just wanna pay somebody, I’ll do it for you!

The truth of the matter is this, it is all about keywords, when you do a search, and type in website promotion, as an example, there is no telling what you will find, click that link and take a peek. What ever you sell on your site, like widgets, click that one and look, the words that describe you or your products and website are keywords, DO NOT FALL FOR THOSE ADS that want to sell you the top spots! Sign up with Google AdWords and do it yourself, it is much, much, much cheaper, and if you keep it simple, it will be simple!

Let’s just use the keywords, traffic exchange, as an example, I use FireFox 3 with adblockers, like ABP, as most experienced people do, so, if you pay Google for an ad, I will never see it, those annoying ads never even appear on my browser! Anyway, many people still use IE7 or with Vista IE8 or other browsers that these ads will stil show up on! If you want to buy an ad, it can cost you from ten cents a click and up, mostly up, and sorry, it is not worth it unless you are a major retailer, just do a little SEO and save your money, people will find you!

So, what is the moral of the story? That is simple, I can sum it up in one word, STUDY! Don’t pay anyone to do that for you, unless it’s me, just be patient, build your site, come here and get some traffic, and study! Whatever you want to learn about, type that keyword at Google.com, and read! After you have read a few hundred pages, you will see the patterns, just be careful and have fun! If you have questions, post it here in a comment, and I promise, I will tell you the truth, and, I won’t charge you for it!

The reason we are all here surfing is to increase traffic to our websites, right? There is one thing that many people may not know, but here it is.

Yes, more traffic is a good thing, but which traffic is better, fast or slow? Fast being visitors that stay on your site for only a few seconds, slow being visitors that stay longer. Which one is best?

Well, if you are looking for statistics that show a lot of visitors, then it really doesn’t matter, but, if you want Google and the other search engines to really respect you, you need both!

Quantity is important, but as usual, quality is always better. As an example, if a person visits your site 6 times, but for only 5 seconds each visit, it makes your site look less important than if that same person visited only once, but for 30 seconds or longer.

There are many hundreds of traffic exchanges out there, all with varied timers, some as fast as 3 seconds, some as slow as a minute, and then you have the manual exchanges. If you have ever surfed a manual site, which many are now “Hover” exchanges, which means you don’t have to click, just move your mouse over the image, and it restarts the timer, then you know that many times you forget and end up staying on that site for several minutes!

So, this presents a bit of a problem, we all want a lot of traffic for as little work as possible, and at the same time we want it fast! I know, I am guilty too, and more page views in the statistics looks good, but it is not as effective in the long run. When I set up this site, I had planned on keeping the timer between 10-15 seconds, but after experimenting, I found that when I moved the timer faster, more people showed up to surf, when I set it slower, people stopped surfing, so, what do we do here?

At this time, I have the timer set at 15 seconds, that will give us all better quality but less quantity. I know that will make some people unhappy, but, at this time we have many members, and if we all surf, it will improve the quality of our traffic even more, and I feel that we are ready to make this move to the benefit of us all. Besides, it will give us some incentive to surf even more when I drop the timer down a notch. However, this traffic exchange belongs to all of us that surf, so, if you want the timer to go back to 5 seconds, and you are a regular surfer, send me an email, use the contact form, or whatever, and let me know. If I get enough response, I will change it. At the same time, if you want the timer set slower, tell me that, or, if you like it set at 15 seconds, tell me that as well. Remember, it is up to you to tell me what you want, it is our traffic exchange, and those that surf and make it all work deserve to have a say in how it works! I need your input, I can’t read your minds, so take the time to drop me a quick note, let’s all work together on this!

What is a SURF PARTY? Well, just like any party, it is a gathering of friends, acquaintances, colleagues, and even strangers, all with one goal, have a good time!

So, if you combine that with a traffic exchange, you get a gathering of people having a good time while exchanging traffic! That is why we are all here, right?

I know that now you are wondering how we can have a “good time” while surfing? With each of us in our own little world, busy multitasking or whatever they call it these days, some of you may be thinking, “we don’t all know each other”, “Oh, help me, I might have to make a friend or something”, or even worse, come on, get over it, LETS PARTY!

Here is what we are going to do, it’s easy. Starting tonight, Thursday, all the way through Monday, the surfbar bonuses are going to be set at changing intervals, with a variety of bonus credit amounts, this will keep you on your toes! However, if you pay attention, you could get a biggie!

Why am I doing this? Well, there are a few of us that already know each other, and we all work hard to surf regularly, and I even heard that some have had personal contests to see who could surf the most! Now that is what I am talking about! Since friends hang out anyway, and I want everyone here to be friends, and to help each other improve the status of their websites. I thought, “why not have a party”?

This is why we have a Discussion Board and Complaint Department, not to mention the Quick Chat section of the site, so, let’s use them! Most, if not all of you, have an Instant Messenger of some sort, so you can contact your friends, and get them to meet here, and if they are not members, they can sign up, and EVERYBODY SURFS!

Since I am almost always on-line, all-night, anyway, regardless of what time you come by, I will probably be here, except for FRIDAY NIGHT from about 4pm until about 10pm CST, that is my weekly party with a buddy, but when I leave there, I will be here, to continue the party will everybody here!

Here is where it gets good, while I am gone, the surfbar bonuses will remain steady, but when I get back, they will start changing! How will you know what is going on? Meet me at the CHAT! I will even have the CHAT page in rotation so that you can see whats going on, so keep your eyes open!

Here is a tip, when you go to the CHAT you don’t have to register, and it will automatically assign you a user number, but, you can change it if you will simply type /nick yourusernameandnumber, into the message box, then hit the send button, it will change it to whatever you put there, so, be creative, but use your member number from the surf, so that I know who you are! Here is an example, 61ButtHead, is who you want to be, so you type /nick 61ButtHead, get it? Oh,user #61 is me, so I am not calling anyone a name!

I hope to see everybody come by this weekend, and if you find no one there, just change your username, and type a simple hello, when I see that you have been there, I will add some credits to your account, just to thank you for participating!

Oh, almost forgot, I have gotten a couple of emails that the surf rotation is stopping on you, let me help you out a bit.

First off, if you have a bad Antivirus/Spyware/Adware program, you may have a bug! I use the FREE program, Spybot Search and Destroy, to check my machine every few days! When you follow this link, you will see a request for donations, just scroll down, but if you can, DONATE! Yes, I have made a donation, probably two or three times, these guys ROCK! This program even has caught things that Norton missed! If you do have something, and the Spybot finds it but can’t get rid of it, their website is full of tips! I’ll put it this way, saved my machine twice! Once, after paying a PRO to fix it but he couldn’t, I found the answer on their site!

If you ever get to looking for a new Antivirus program, this is a great one, a little more expensive maybe, but it is worth it, I got a free year through my ISP, but will soon be paying like 3 bucks a month for it.

If you are an experienced surfer, you may already know this, but maybe this will help. You need to delete your Cache, or Temp files,along with the other junk that builds up from surfing, Cache/Temp, Cookies, History. However, DO NOT DELETE your Form Data or Passwords! You may want to save your cookies too, but I delete all of that other junk every time I re-start my computer, and I do that several times a day as well! (Go to your Internet Options to do this) Why?

Every time you visit a web page, your computer basically takes a picture of it, so that the next time you visit that site again, it will load faster.What happens is, that stuff builds up and makes your computer go slower because it is busy looking to see if it already has a cache/temp file of that site, if it has a cookie from that site, and when was the last time you were there! That is a lot of extra effort, and since auto-surfing is looking at hundreds of pages, over and over, it causes a problem and brakes the rotation by taking too long to reply to the server and drops the connection to your machine! Happens to me with dial up sometimes because the dialup is slow, but I can see that happening.

You may have gotten an email from an admin at another exchange telling you that it is because of sites with zero credits, and they may be right, but I have tested TrafficComplex by creating 3 test users, adding a bunch of sites, you may notice which ones, some with credits, some without, and surfing on my regular account, just to see what happens, watching for bad sites, and so on, I can surf non-stop for hours, either with Satellite or Dial-up, so, I see no problem with zero balance sites. I can tell you this though, we can get all the credits we need here, to keep a healthy amount of credits allocated to our sites, so, zero balance shouldn’t be a problem. I hope this helps! Discuss this here!

Ok, anybody that has read almost anything I have ever written, knows that my day off consists of a period starting about 4pm Friday until about midnight, before and after, I am here, online, doing something. Yes, during this time, I drink beer with a buddy, who makes tie dye T-shirts, and just vent about and try to forget this online world! See the picture? That is me on Friday! I try to bury my head in beer, so to speak, but………….

What usually happens is, I write and share my opinions, and believe me, I have plenty!

This is the time that I take to just kick back and do nothing, but, it almost always leads to an extended tour of duty here, telling everyone, everything I never had time to say before! So, that out of the way, here goes…..

First off, I just set the surfbar bonus to something ridiculous, like 5,000 credits every 20 pages! Who wants to bet that NO ONE but me ever even sees this? Thats ok, those that surf late, may start looking here on Friday nights, just to see if I have set up some crazy bonus! How long will I leave it? Until I wake up! If you are reading this, and you missed out, well, sorry, maybe next Friday?

The time of this post is early Saturday, so you do still have time!

If you think that I am crazy, maybe just an opinionated jerk, check out my other site, OpinionHead.com, there you will see what I really think about things!

Now that you know me a little bit better, post a comment, tell me about you! Tell me about your website, why you use a TrafficExchange, how can I help you promote your site and what TrafficComplex.com can do better! Or, to brag that you clicked that surfbar bonus and how many times!

Here we go again, another week gone by and our stats are getting better! We are now up to almost 60 members and the referrals are coming in!

Yes, as is with all traffic exchanges, we have those that sign up yet do not surf. Why do they sign up? This I can’t say, but even with those members that don’t get involved, things are moving steadily forward and we have some great members on our team!

We still haven’t hit that 150K mark, but look at how close we are! 148023 sites shown! With our membership at about sixty, that comes out to around 2500 per member, per seven days! That is about 350 pageviews per member, per day! Which, with 169 sites, is just over 2 visits per site per member!

Keep up the good work team, if we keep up at this rate, we could bust that 150K mark with little trouble, again, thanks for surfing!

Many of you may have noticed that the traffic exchange was down for about 24 hours, maybe you are as curious as I am as to why this happened, and what actually happened. I have no idea!

Let me tell you what I do know. There are many scripts available out there that do many different things and most of them get encrypted so that their code can’t be copied or resold, and IonCube is one of the tools that is used to do this. Once the code has been encrypted, you have to have what is called a loader, sorta like a magic decoder ring, that enables this code to be read by the server. Now, with this explained, here is what happened.

For some reason, the server could not read the code, even though the loader was there! This site is exactly like it was before, all I did was upload the code and the same loaders back to the server, and deleted and recreated the same file that tells the server to look for this loader, but it is exactly the same as it was, so you tell me what happened!

Anyhow, with all of that out of the way, many of you have come back and surfed already, but not everybody. we of course had no traffic during that 24 hours, so our stats went to heck, but that is ok, it will get back to normal soon.

Since I am writing this now, there won’t be a Friday post, this is it, so read carefully. The timer has been turned down, but the surfbar bonuses are still the same, this seems to be working out for everyone, so watch that surfbar for bonuses and build up some credits!

This isn’t a normal Friday post, there is are a few things that I need to address now, before it gets out of hand.

As the site grows, and more new members sign up, as with any traffic exchange, there are those that register just for the bonus credits, but that does not happen here! So, if that is your intention, don’t even bother to register!

It is becoming clear that there are some rules that I need to make clear, so I am doing that now! I am an easy going kind of guy, and a fellow surfer, so I will not impose any restrictions on anyone else that I won’t follow myself, it is quite simple really, follow these rules and you won’t get bothered!

1. Suspended sites will be deleted! Getting your site suspended is not the end of the world, but all sites that are suspended, from Monday through Friday, will be deleted over the weekend! Many times there are credits allocated to these sites, and if you don’t go to the Allocate Credits section and deduct them yourself, they will be lost! So, if you see that a site has been suspended, do this by Saturday at 01:00 Central time, that is when they will be deleted! Starting tonight!
2. New Members Must Surf! This is a biggie, when a new member registers, they are required to view at least 100 pages to get their sites activated, but, from now on, there is a time limit! New members must surf those 100 pages within 2 days! That is more than ample time, it only takes less than an hour, so get surfing, those members that haven’t surfed the required amount, within that time limit will be deleted!
3. All Sites Must Have Credits! This one is the easiest to follow, with the surfbar bonuses, and the way that I hand out credits, no one should ever have a problem keeping plenty of credits allocated to their sites. From now on, sites with zero (0) credits will be suspended! (See Rule #1) Being the nice guy that I am, I may add credits to a members site, if we have had a busy night or something, but sites that have no credits for a day or two, will get suspended. You can avoid this, by simply clicking the black arrow to the right of your site and placing it “On Hold”, I will not delete it.
4. Sites that are not Allowed: If I approve a site, that later changes, and becomes a problem, or any site that violates the rules, (PTP, PTC, ADULT, NOISE, Etc.) will have a bounty on it! Yes, we need active surfers, and if you don’t feel that your site breaks the rules, submit it, if it is only marginally a violator, I will approve it, but, if it gets reported by 3 members as a problem, it will get suspended, (See Rule #1), no, this doesn’t mean that I want everybody reporting every site they see, just those that are a problem. After a site has been reported by 3 members, I will look at it, if it is a violator, I will issue bonus credits to those that reported it!
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The goal here is to have a clean, safe, and friendly site, where people new to surfing don’t have to worry about problems, I know, many of you have sites in rotation now that are “marginal violators”, if you are an active surfer, and maybe the site is legit, I will leave it up to my fellow surfers to decide. This traffic exchange is for everybody, and can be a great community if we all work together, but, it is not entirely a democracy, I have the final say, but everyones input is very important to me, and shapes my decisions, so if you have any issues with these rules, questions, comments or suggestions, please reply to this post below by leaving a comment. This post is going to be referred to elsewhere to help everyone understand and participate. Thanks for being a Team Player, that is what this site is all about, so, participate!

Why are we surfing? This is a great question, that I am sure everyone has thought about at some time, or at least should think about, because dedicating your time to surfing is a serious commitment.

For many surfers, the reason is simple, to get people to see your site. Ok, this is true, people do see your site, but what if you have a business that has a website, but does not recruit or sell products online? What could this do for you? How can someone, in another country, do your website any good?

To begin with, many people have this “Get Rich Quick” mentality when it comes to the Internet, but, I am sorry, it won’t happen! Yes, they sign up for affiliate sites, all promising riches, pay in the 10 bucks or whatever, work like fiends promoting the site, but nothing happens, why?

If someone walked up and told you, the same line as these sites, or that the SPAMMERS do in an email, with some lawyer in a country not known for being wealthy, needing help to send money? Come on, wire transfers work anywhere that they have banks! If they were really legit, wouldn’t everyone already be rich? Most of this stuff is so obvious, but why do they do it? What does this have to do with surfing?

Ok, I will tie this all together. That group, looking for quick money, are like fisherman, get a line in the water and maybe something or somebody will bite! The possibility of EASY MONEY sounds great, doesn’t it? The truth is, there are a lot of suckers out there that fall for it! Just like a fish biting a fake worm! So, watch out, these sites are the biggest problem on any traffic exchange, but, they don’t realize that they have been duped until it is too late. As hard as they work, they don’t realize that if it is not your domain, registered in your name, selling a legit product and not just a fantasy, then it is somebody else that gets paid, not you!

For those looking to promote any website, traffic is the key that unlocks the potential for your site.

SEO, Search Engine Optimization, is the most important of all, and is actually a simple thing, make sure that your images have titles, and that you have original content on your website, hmm, original, what does that mean? If you have an affiliate site, that looks just like everybody else’s, it is not original content. I don’t mean the template, I mean the text, written by you on your website, that describes what your site is about, that is where the keywords come in. If you have a site that sells dog food, you don’t have a bunch of content about unrelated things, like fishing, unless the dog food is good for feeding fish or something.

Ok, I’ll stop rambling. The way that a traffic exchange helps, other than just showing your site to lots of people, is once you have your site picked up by the search engines, your keywords about dog food and fishing are plentiful, what separates your site from the others about dog food? Traffic! The more visitors to your site, the more important it is! Thus, a higher page rank, which means that someone looking for tips on using dog food to feed fish can find your site easier.

(If you find any site in the rotation that you believe are a scam, report it at the Complaint Department, My policies are clear about these sites, I will let all of you be the judge, if these sites don’t bother you, they don’t bother me, I know who they are, but if they are active surfers, that is all that matters, and if you see a post that I have written, and you don’t agree with it, post a comment and say so. This site is here for surfers and I will do my best to keep out the bad code and such, but complaining about bad sites s up to you!)

Friday gets here quick, doesn’t it? Well, this is also a Holiday, that makes this Friday even more special! This weekend, we have many of our members away for the Holiday so traffic is moving a bit slow. This requires something special for the rest of us who are here!

Every new member, that surfs, will get an extra bonus, and every old member that I find surfing from now through the weekend will also get a bonus! So, get busy, the more you surf the more likelly it will be that I can find you!

Have a great weekend, and Happy Birthday America!