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Beware Traffic Exchanges
I have been using Traffic exchanges (a Traffic exchange is a site that you sign up to become a member of and in exchange for you viewing other peoples web sites for a set period of time [usually 10 - 30 seconds], your site gets displayed to the other members of the exchange) to generate traffic and build a list. However, for those that have tried to use Traffic exchanges you can spend hours surfing and generating 'credits' to display your page yet you get nothing back in the way of clicks to view your page or sign up to your promotion. This is basically because people new to exchanges try to display just their affiliate pages. What are people trying to do on traffic exchanges? they basically try to sell their products or affiliate products to you; who is also trying to do the same to them. So most are surfing for nothing because mostly no one on a traffic exchange is looking to buy, they are trying to sell! What can you do then? well you should be using a squeeze page with a free or reasonably priced offer to capture their name and email to build your list. And the information on the page should be biased towards generating traffic. Because thats why the sellars are there in the first place to generate traffic. To assist your page to get more views you can either surf longer to gain more credits, upgrade your account to get a better surf ratio, you can buy credits or you can get other surfers in other exchanges to join your traffic exchange under you. As most exchanges have affiliate links, splash pages and banners that you can use to recommend other surfers. Then when some one signs up under your id then you will get extra credits and usually a credits for a small percentage of the credits the new sign up's gain for their surfing activity. Eventually, you should be accumulating credits without having to surf for hours. One of the ways that you can display your link is by using a banner image on other traffic exchange sites. Again you exchange credits for so many banner impressions on the site you want to display the banner. I thought about this and decided that I could do better by having a splash page with 6 to 8 banners on it. This way surfers could sign up for one or more traffic exchanges using my link. The only problem was that the standard banner size did not lend itself to being placed economically on the page. I was using a table of 8 rows and 2 columns. You have to bare in mind the size of your page due to the exchanges own footer and header. The way to get around this was to use serif photo plus to shrink the banners to a manageable size. So I set about collecting the banner images provided by the traffic exchange admins. In most cases this was easy as they used the standard banner html display mechanism of having a web address anchor and an image address for the banner. Easy save image as imagename.jpg adjust to size in photo plus and save back to a file ready to display on my new page. There was a problem getting the images on some traffic exchanges because they wrap the banner display code in a script. You basically put a line to call the scipt with your id tagged to it to display the banner on the traffic exchange. I assumed that the script tracked where the banners and how often were being displayed. How was I going to get the image? looking at the script I could see a bit of code that looked like it would display a banner, so I cut and pasted the url into my browser and then I'd be able to get hold of the image to manipulate it. However, whilst the code displayed a banner it was not a banner for the traffic exchange, it was a banner for an affiliate program and whats more it wasn't a program I was an affiliate of! refreshing the browser caused a different affiliate banner to be displayed again not my id or a program that I was connected with. This traffic exchange was basically stealing my (and every other surfer that was displaying the traffic exchange banners) hard earned credits in one exchange to display their affiliate links. This was the case in more than one traffic exchange so the moral of the story is check that you are displaying the banners you thought you were displaying, espescially where the banner code is displayed via a script. To see the actual proof check the pdf out below. I will be challenging the admin of the site shortly but I wanted to get this intel out so that you can check your own banner codes, if you use them. Before they change the codes and then deny that they ever did anything like that.
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Contributor's Note
Beware using banners to promote Traffic Exchanges in Traffic Exchanges
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Traffic Exchange Banner Scam
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