What is Auto-Sound and why is it NOT ALLOWED at Trafficcomplex.com?

no sound allowed What is Auto Sound and why is it NOT ALLOWED at Trafficcomplex.com?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!

The Tortoise and the Hare: What is better, fast traffic or slow traffic?

tortoise hare The Tortoise and the Hare: What is better, fast traffic or slow traffic?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!

Traffic Complex is having a SURF PARTY! You are all invited!

traffic Traffic Complex is having a SURF PARTY! You are all invited!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!

It is Friday Night! Ok, so it is really Saturday, I just wanna say Hi!

opinionated bird It is Friday Night! Ok, so it is really Saturday, I just wanna say Hi!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!

TrafficComplex is back, but the mystery continues!

what happened TrafficComplex is back, but the mystery continues!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!

New Rules: TrafficComplex is having some growing pains!

new rules New Rules: TrafficComplex is having some growing pains!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!

Happy 4th of July!

friday july 04 300x96 Happy 4th of July!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!

If you were as Shocked as I was, dont worry!

shocked If you were as Shocked as I was, dont worry!Just in case you were surfing and got that Site Suspended error, like I did, calm down, it is ok!

I called the Host, and they had no idea what happened, must have just been a freak thing! I guess you could call it a server burp?

Since my host offers unlimited everything, it scared the heck out of me!

I can tell you this, a long time ago, I got that same error message at Google.com! I thought that was funny, but when it happened here, and to me, as well as the other users that sent me a message, it worried me!

I have to tell you, I love my host, HostMonster.com, when this happened, I was caller number 9 on their list, in less than a minute, I was connected with the support department, and they quickly checked everything out, assuring me there was no problem.

I am sorry if this freaked anyone else out, let me know if it happens again when I am not looking, but just remember, if it does, it’s not an issue, just refresh the page and keep on surfing!

Here we are, it is Friday again! TrafficComplex members are breaking records!

trafficcomplex stats 6 27 08 Here we are, it is Friday again! TrafficComplex members are breaking records!Ok, we did it! Just as I checked the stats, it passed the 100,000 mark! That was our goal for last week, and we did it with room to spare, there are still several hours of surfing left today!

Since no one sent in a screen shot, and it was a team effort, everybody wins! I am going to post the bonus credits as soon as I finish this post!

Hey, these numbers are nothing like the big guys out there, but hey, this is only after what, 20 days, I don’t count the first day, the 7th, but look at us go!

We are getting a lot of referrals, one member here probably has gotten close to 10 sign-ups! Great job!

During a spot check, I saw one that was a referral of a referral, and they were both racking up the credits! Great work everybody!

So, what is our goal for this coming week? well, since the last week we had about 20,000 pages shown, and this week will be well over 100,000, lets set a goal of another 10 good members, and shoot for 150,000 page views! that will be what, with about 30 members now, 40 members should be able to get it done!

I am giving everybody a 1,000 credit bonus now, we make the next goal, it will be even better! So, get out your referral pages, surf like maniacs, we can get all the traffic we need! As always on Friday night, the surfbar bonuses are cranked up, so let’s get surfing!!

Thanks again for all of your hard work, if there were a surf championship, I would definitely enter this team!

P.S. Anybody that sends me a screenshot of their stats, will get a surprise bonus! Make sure to save the image with your user ID number at least so I know who you are!

Teamwork: What it takes to build a community! TrafficComplex has it!

construction teamwork1 Teamwork: What it takes to build a community! TrafficComplex has it! Hey everybody! As I am writing this, after just checking a few stats, there is one thing I can tell you, this traffic exchange has teamwork! We have many new members, which sent about 40-50,000 bonus credits, to our referring members! Not to mention the per page viewed bonuses, right now set to .2 credits for each page view! Now is the time to join other traffic exchanges, publish your referral page, and recruit some new members!   Why that, do you ask? Simple, the fewer opportunities there are to choose from, the more likely it is that you will be the one to get the referral!

Don’t forget to bring your referral page from that traffic exchange, and add it to your list, maybe you will get a referral there too?

I have my referral page out there! So far it is on about 100 exchanges, although it is still not approved on most of those, and yes, I surf those sites regularly and have for a long time, anyway, the point being, you can get in at the ground level, and later, when it is your team members, that are generating massive credits for you and each other!

On the first level, along with the 5,000 credit bonus, every time someone you refer directly, surfs 5 pages, you get a credit, that is a .2 per page view rate, as a bonus, forever!

When that referral gets a referral, first, you get 500 credits and when that new team member surfs 10 pages, you will get a credit, and when that member, refers someone you will get 250 credits and again, every time they surf 20 pages, you will get a credit, the next one, and from there on, you will get 125 credits up front and for every 20 pages a credit! So, if, during the early days of this site, you get your referral pages out first, you will get lots and lots of free credits! I’ll put the rate list below, if that was as confusing to you as it was to me! I just reread it and got dizzy!

  1. Level one Referral: 5,000 credits and for the pages they view a rate of .2 or 5:1.
  2. Level two Referral: 500 credits and a .1 rate or 10:1.
  3. Level three Referral:250 credits and a .05 rate or 20:1.
  4. Level four through ten Referral: 125 credits and the same .05 rate or 20:1.

The point of this story is that we have some great members, working hard, long and often, thanks!

Don’t forget, send me those screenshots for the last 7 days of pages viewed on monday, and every monday from now on, and the winner will get a bonus! Don’t try and cheat please, I am watching, and will verify, looks like we’ll have a tight race this week, there are a few of you kicking butt! When you send the screen-shot, title the image with your member number and user name, not your email address.

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