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Many of our members are hard workers and surf very regularly, that is why this traffic exchange is one of the exchanges that are growing, and not shrinking in our traffic output.

Unfortunately, there are many, that just sign up with as many traffic exchanges as they can, they get the sign-up bonus, surf the minimum, and then go away, never to return! For those that do this, we will miss you, but, unless a member is productive, in some way, either referring others, or surfing on a regular basis, it does not do the rest of us any good anyway, right?

If you received the email, with a link to this post, you still have time, just log in and surf a few sites, that will give you a fresh start, and let me know who is serious.

Everyone here that has read my posts, knows that I hate Rules, but, rules are necessary, and any rule that I have put into effect, or ever will, are simple to follow, and are to the benefit of everyone, after all, we are a team here, and a team needs a coach, right? Since I try to get input from all of you, before I make any changes, you will find a new Poll on the Sidebar, in addition to the one about the Surf Timer, you will find one about “Inactivity”, as of now, I have the Inactive list set at 6 months, I believe that if someone goes away for 6 months, odds are, they are not coming back!

Believe me, I do not want to Delete anybody! However, it is something that I have to do! I used to try and surf close to 300 different exchange sites, I was surfing like a fiend, 24  hours a day, seven days a week! Even with this effort, I was not able to surf every site as much as I needed to, so, I thinned out my list and have cut it down considerably, and with my duties here growing, I am still not as active as I use to be, so, my point is, I understand that many of our teammates also surf a lot of different sites therefore are not here as regular as those that only surf a few sites, however, most of these members are also referring tons of new members. Using myself as an example, I am more lenient than many other admins, because I do understand how it is.

Those that either surf a lot, or refer a lot, get away with more than the rest, you know who you are, and of course the upgraded members, you really have it made!

Anyway, back to the point, the new poll will tell me what you think, and I will act upon this accordingly. As I said before, any member that Does Not sign in and surf, at least once every six months, will lose their account, regardless of credits in the account! Believe me, if a member has not logged in, for 6 months, their sites have no assigned credits left! It doesn’t take but a few minutes to log in and surf a few sites, this is what I do on those sites where I still surf, some are once a week, others every two weeks, but the ones that I surf the least, I am there at least every 3 months, so, tell me what you think, post a comment here and vote in the poll, I need your input on this! Thanks!

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!

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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Ok, sorry if I made somebody mad! Obviously, I screwed up! We went from hundreds of pageviews per hour to almost none! Ok, I get it, i will change the surfbar bonuses! Hey, I surf everyday, I surf hundreds of sites, the thought that I could surf one site for like 250 pageviews, and get 5,000 credits for it, well, that would rock my world! However, nobody else seems to like the idea, and everybody went away!

This calls for a change, from this point forward, till monday sometime, I am going to fix my mistake! Lets try something like 10 pageviews for 100 credits! What do you think? No, I screwed up, so I’ll set it to 10 pages, 250 credits!

Go to the complaint department, and let me know, I have started a forum with the title, “What motivates you to surf?” There you can tell me what you want, what kind of bonuses will get you to surf? Tell me and I will make it happen!

By the way, I have no idea who these people in the picture are, but that is the look I can imagine those that didn’t like my bonuses, having on their faces! Except her, she kinda looks happy about it, buzzed maybe, but she is smiling.

Anyway, It is changed, surf your brains out!