As selfish as it may sound, my workload has gone down, but, the productivity has gone up! If you are keeping stats on your site(s) you may soon notice a few changes, I know that I have since I cut out the quicky hits.

For those that have always had a low PR (Google Page Rank) and are only interested in getting more bodies to sign up for your “plan” or give up their email for one scheme or another, no, these changes will not do you any good, but, for those that are here, promoting real sites, with real products, these changes could be important.

Since requiring a New Member to surf 500 pages at 30 seconds, instead of 100 pages at 5 seconds, the new members are surfing more, and more often, thanks, and even some of the older members are coming back and surfing, now that the traffic is of better quality. As you know, I used to surf literally hundreds of exchange sites, I worked myself to a frazzle, just surfing, I have promoted literally hundreds of other exchanges, but, that is no more!

Where I used to get maybe 20 or so, organic or search engine referral visits to my sites, I am now seeing hundreds, from 2-10 % on one, up to 45% ,  54%, with direct traffic, that tells me that the powers that be, Google, are now seeing my sites differently. I have one, that when it debuted was a PR4, then rather quickly went down to a 2, and yes, Google did change up a bit, but now, due to the better traffic, I am expecting it to go way up.

So, for those of you with “real” websites, keep up the good work, it will pay off in the long run. For everyone else, thanks for surfing and looking at our sites, without you, this site would not produce as much, I hope that those with the “other” sites would just get real ones, with real products, or as in my case, just be something besides a scam.We have many new members, that are offering good sites for us to view, and now, we have a great 30 seconds to look at them!

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Traffic is moving at the normal rate, new members are signing up and everything is going well, Thank You! I haven’t found a lot of issues to address, except to remind you all to allocate credits to your sites, espescially when submitting a new site. I am limited on my time, so when I check sites for approval, if they have ZERO credits allocated, I am not even looking at them, sorry, but my time, for two weeks, starting last Wednesday, the 18th, is dedicated to my little girl, I only see her every two years or so, so, when she comes for a visit, my time is hers. Anyway, Thanks for being a great team!

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It all started Sunday, when I discovered I have a major water line outside that is leaking, or busted or something, that will be taken care of tomorrow, but now I have a soggy front yard!

Then Monday, the screen on my laptop started blinking and within a few minutes went black! I thought I had a spare monitor to plugin, but, after digging it out, the thing was so blurry, I couldn’t read anything! So, the hunt is on for a suitable replacement, that has takem a couple of days, but, will also be taken care of tomorrow, well, at least it will be ordered! Have you tried shopping for a laptop lately?

Today, after buying a monitor, to hold me over until my newlaptop gets here, I come home to check out my sites, email and such, and guess what? My host shut down my account! After calling support, I am told that I have a script that went crazy! My first thought was this site, support infomed me that to get my account activated, I had to read through 92 Megabytes of error logs! That sounds worse than it was, luckily they were separated by date, so, after reading through about 6 of them, there it was, a plugin that I use on all of my sites went bad and was locking up!

Anyway, I resolved that issue and they turned everything back on. As it was, I still had like two days of backlog to deal with, I felt like the guy in the picture! I hope it doesn’t happen again, but as of now, everything should be ok!

For those that were here surfing when they shut it down, sorry about that. There is a bright spot, not even a minute, I mean seconds, after they turned it back on, I came here and the traffic was moving! You folks are great! Thanks for sticking with it! Surf on everybody!

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If you believe that some magic something will happen, just by investing hour upon hour surfing sites that you have absolutely no interest in, will somehow make you rich, or even an income of a buck or two, you are mistaken!

If you read through this site, you will find many posts that say the same thing, but this one is directed to the newbies! If you are a new “webmaster” and have just published your first website and are looking to get rich from the internet, it won’t happen! If you have a website and just want to get more visitors, this is the place for you!

What makes it worthwhile? Several things can make surfing a good thing for your website, if you have a ‘New’ idea, maybe someone will want to get involved, If you have that “magic” plan, maybe you will get a customer, if you are just here to harvest email addresses for some scam, maybe you will get lucky, I hope not, that is why i write this stuff!

Traffic Exchanges are a wonderful thing, just like email, but there are, and always will be those that use it for the wrong purpose! I like to think that only kids do the dirty stuff, but that is not true, it is the “pro’s’ the ones that know their way around the Internet, like me. I could be one of those snakes, but I wont! That is why I write these things to warn people, even those that are in the middle of being deceived! I hope that by offering the truth, someone will read it and not waste that “buck or two” to find out! I hope that those that have already wasted that “buck or two” and are promoting the junk I am talking about, will also post here and help me!

So, why are we surfing? To get people to look at our websites! Maybe, if you have a legit website, it will help you, and help those looking for what you offer to find you! Other than that, I hope and pray, that those with the bogus stuff, will not find a victim here! If you are new, before you sign up and surf, read and find out what this site can or cannot do for you! I also hope that those that have been,…..confused…..and sign up for that stuff, will tell others about what happened to them!

Hey, I did it, i signed up, paid, worked my butt off, for years! That is why I am running this site! I feel it my duty to help others to avoid the scams! Hey, if you got suckered, don’t be ashamed, it happens to a lot of us, otherwise that crap would go away! That is the problem with the Internet, too many people that just don’t know! Please, if you are a victim, like me, post a comment here and help someone, it really will make you feel better!

Come on, help me help others, BEFORE they get suckered!

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